TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



INTRODUCTION. 



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Object of the Voyage— Former Surveys of Straits of Magellan— Change 

 of Programme — Selection of Ship — Equipment — Arrangements for 

 Natural History Work— Change of Captain— List of Officers . . 1—4 



CHAPTER I. 



Departure from England — Storm Petrels — A Sparrow-hawk at Sea — • 

 Collecting Surface Organisms with Tow-net — Water-kite — Wire 

 Sounding Apparatus — Land-swallow at Sea — Gulfweed — Phospho- 

 rescence of Seawater — Arrive at Madeira — Curious Town — Dredging 

 Work — A Pinery — Discoloured Seawater— Petrels again — St. Vin- 

 cent — Cape de Verdes — Pelagic Animals — Sounding near Abrolhos 

 Bank — Dredging over Hotspur Bank — Dredging over Victoria Bank 

 — Moths and Butterflies on the Ocean — E.xtraordinary Vitality of 

 Sphynx Moths — Arrive at Montevideo — Gauchos— Trip into Interior 

 of Uruguay — Buenos Ayres — Dr. Burmeister's Museum — Arrive at 

 the Falklands — "Stone Runs." .S— 33 



CHAPTER II. 



We enter Straits of Magellan — Reach Sandy Point — Gold and Coal- 

 Surrounding Country — Elizabeth Island — Dredging — Fuegians at 

 Port Famine — We enter Smyth's Channel — Canoe "Portage" at 

 Isthmus Bay — Arrive at Tom Bay — A Fuegian Family — Trinidad 

 Channel — CUmate of Western Patagonia — Flora — Rock F'ormation 

 — Soilcap — Natives — The Channel Tribe of Fuegians — Scarcity of 

 Old People — Water-birds of Tom Bay — Sea Otters — A Concealed 

 "Portage" — Habits of Gulls and Shags — Steamer Ducks— Land- 

 shells — Freshwater Fish — Deer 34 — 65 



