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INDEX. 



Bahia, or San Salvador, currents before 

 reaching, scenery, present state, 60 — 

 slavery, its evils, 61, 62 — city de- 

 scribed, 63 — survey, shoals, current, 

 ship's course, 64, 78. 



Bahias Dos, Cape, 305. 



Bank Yngles in River Plata, 92, 286. 



Barometer, 49, 83 — fall and changes 

 before ' pampero,' 86, 91, in gale, 226 



—at Falklands, 244, 245— anomaly near 

 Valdivia, 396 — before great earth- 

 quake, 41 1, 412. 



Beagle at Falmouth, 2— paid off, 7 — 

 re-coinmissioned 14, 17 — outfit, 18- 

 22 — plan of voyage, 24-41 — deten- 

 tion, 42 — course, 44, 45 — at Santa 

 Cruz, 48 — Cape Verde Islands, 51 — 

 Fernando de Noronha, 59 — Bahia, 

 60— passing Cape Frio, 66 — at Rio 

 de Janeiro, 73-81 — equipment de- 

 scribed, 82 — in River Plata, 85 — 

 danger in Pampero in former voyage, 

 87 — at IVIonte Video, 94 — Port Bel- 

 grano, loi-iio — Blanco Bay, 111 — 

 under Monte Hermoso, 112 — at Bue- 

 nos Ayres, Montevideo, 114 — San 

 Bias, 1 16 — goes towards Tierra del 

 Fuego, weather, 117 — extraordinary 

 white-coloured space of sea, 118 — off 

 Santa Inez, 119 — in Good Success 

 Bay, passes Cape Horn, 122 — in St. 

 Martin Cove, 124— off York-Minster 

 heights in heavy gale, 125— loses boat, 

 126' — in Goree Road, 127 — in Scotch- 

 well Bay, under sail during bad night 

 between Wollaston and Navarin 

 Islands, 223 — Packsaddle Bay, 224 

 — Good Success Bay, 225 — Berkeley 

 Sound, 227, 268— Johnson Cove, 270 

 — in gale off River Negro, 281— at 

 Monte Video, Maldonado, 282— pro- 

 ceedings, 283, 086 — at San Bias 

 Banks, 286 — River Negro, Port 

 Belgrano, 288 — sails with H.M.S. 

 Snake, returns to Monte Video, 292 

 — strikes a rock in Port Desire, 317 

 — Port San Julian, 318-321 — passes 

 First Narrow, 322 — at Woollya, 

 323 — Port Louis, 327 — River 

 Santa Cruz, 336— Cape Virgins, 357, 

 358 — new route, 358 (note) — under 

 sail in Cockburn Channel, 359 — Val- 

 paraiso, -361 -—San Carlos, 363 — 

 among Chonos Islands, 364-378 — 

 San Carlos, 378 — soundings along 

 coast of South Chile, 396— Valdivia, 



397 — Talcahuano, 40a — Valparaiso, 

 4'9 — Concepcion, 421 — narrow es- 

 cape, Maule, 424 — proceedings, 424- 

 426— refit in Herradura Cove, 426, 

 427 — Valparaiso, 428 — Callao, 482 — 

 — at Galapagos Islands, 484-505— at 

 Low Islands, 506 — discovers islands, 

 507, 508— Otaheite, or Tahiti, 508- 

 557 — Navigators, Friendly, and Fee- 

 jee Islands, 559-562— at New Zea- 

 land, 563-619—' Three Kings' islets, 

 620— Port Jackson, Sydney, 621 — 

 Hobart Town, 623 — King George 

 Sound, 624— Keeling Island, 628 — 

 Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, St. 

 Helena, Ascension, Bahia, Cape 

 Verde and Azores Islands, arrives in 

 England, 638. 



Beagle Channel, 218— tide, 219. 



Beauchesne Island, 327. 



Belgrano Port, 100, 101— fossils, ani- 

 mals, fish, 107 — climate, tides, pu- 

 mice-stones, 108 — Beagle there again. 

 288. 



Bellaco Rock examined, tides, refrac- 

 tion, 318, 319. 



Berkeley Sound, 227— lights on hills, 

 276 — revisited, 327— shallow sound- 

 ings thence to River Santa Cruz, 336. 



Birds, flight of, indicates direction of 

 land, 557, 558, 628. 



Blanco Bay, shore between it and Cape 

 Corrientes, without anchorage, tosca, 

 99, 100. 



Blanco Cape, tide-races, 303— coast 

 near, salinas, guanacoes, 304. 



Bias San, Bay, 116, 117— banks, 286, 

 287 — Liebre and Paz there, Indians, 

 296, 297. 



Boats, excursion to Woollya, 202-206 

 —arrival there, 207— on westward ex- 

 ploration, pass Murray Narrow, ca- 

 noes, Shingle Point, 215 — endangered 

 by fall of ice-cliff, 217 — enter Beagle 

 channel, difficulties, 218 — return to 

 Woollya, 220 — in Ponsonby Sound, 

 Button Island, 223 — yawl swamped, 

 276 — up Chupat River, 307 — excur- 

 sion up River Santa Cruz, 337-357 

 — whaleboat in Chonos Archipelago, 

 363, 364— boat exploration of Chiloe 

 Archipelago by Lieut. Sulivan and 

 Mr. Usborne, 364, 366, 378— north- 

 wards by Mr. Stokes, 367— proceed- 

 ings 374, 375 — boat excursion (in 



