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Montevidio and the Straits of Magellan. After an uneventful 

 voyage she arrived off Queenstown, where she received her orders, 

 presumably from a pilot boat, to proceed to a continental port to 

 discharge. She experienced the full fury of this gale when off 

 the Scillys, and in a short time lost all her masts and spars. Her 

 crew were taken off by a passing steamer, and the vessel was 

 abandoned. After a brief interval, a vessel took her in tow as 

 far as the Lizard, and handed her over to a local tug-boat which 

 promptly brought her to Eahnouth, and a short time later she 

 was moored in the docks. The day after her arrival, I went and 

 examined her sides with the remote hope that I might be able to 

 find something of interest amid the forest of green algae which 

 draped her hull a few inches below water-line. Without any 

 difficulty I secured a dozen small crabs which I detected running 

 amid this weed. The next day, I made a more leisurely 

 examination of these crustaceans and their surroundings, for I 

 soon discovered they were new to this country. In many instances 

 these crabs could be seen devouring the weed on the vessel's sides; 

 while others were scrambling through the weed, or holding fast to 

 the peduncles of the Lepas which abounded everywhere below 

 water-line. Between the time I discovered these crustaceans and 

 the vessel's departure, about a week, I paid a daily visit to this 

 barque ; and besides removing numbers for preserving, I scattered 

 dozens in various places in the harbour with a view to the intro- 

 duction of a new species. Two years have nearly passed since 

 this was done, and I have not found a single specimen. This 

 vessel was fijially towed away, and up to the time of her depar- 

 ture there were still numbers of these crustaceans left on her. 



Being unable to identify this species from any book in my 

 possession, I gave some of these crustaceans to Mr. Pocock, of the 

 British Museum, who kindly informed me that Pilumnoides 

 perlatus was the name of this species, and that it was a Chilian 

 form. 



Surprises like misfortunes seldom come single. 



During the snmmer of 1899 another barque from Tal-tal, a 

 seaport on the west coast of South America, arrived at Falmouth 

 to discharge her cargo during the height of summer. She, like 

 the preceding vessel, had quantities of Lepas festooning her sides. 



