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A Boreali ad Austra........ miserium postridie Kalenda 
Novembris emigravit. 
Decimo quarto Kalendas Januarii Patagonicis recognitis 
litoribus ad ostium appulit freti. 
Tandem ingentibus periculis et horroribus tam in mari quam 
in freto magnanime et constanter superatis et omnibus 
portubus atque navium fundamentis utriusque litoris 
correctissime cognitis ad hune portum Divini Jose vel 
Galante septimo idu Januarii pervenit ubi ad 
perpetuam rei memoriam in monte sanctissime crucis hoe 
monumentum reliquit. 
Tertio et excelso Carolo regnante potente 
Regali jussu facta fuere suo. 
Colocatum fuit nono Kalende Februarii Anno MDCCLXX XIX. 
together with a list of the officers of both vessels, and enclosing 
a memorial of Cordova’s former voyage in the Santa Maria de 
la Cabeza. The originals are placed in the British Museum ; 
but before we finally left the Strait, copies were made on vel- 
lum, and deposited on the same spot. 
The Beagle left Port Gallant* with a fair wind, which carried 
her to Swallow Harbour. 
The next stopping place was Marian’s Cove, a very snug 
anchorage on the north shore, a few miles beyond Playa 
Parda. Proceeding thence to the westward, with the wind 
‘in their teeth,’ and such bad weather, that they could only 
see the land of either coast at intervals, and failing in an 
attempt to find anchorage under Cape Upright, the Beagle 
was kept under weigh during a squally dark night. 
In that very place, Commodore Byron, with the Dolphin 
and Tamar, passed the anxious night, which he thus de- 
scribes :— 
“ Our situation was now very alarming; the storm increased 
every minute, the weather was extremely thick, and the rain 
seemed to threaten another deluge; we had a long dark night 
before us, we were in a narrow channel, and surrounded on 
* One of the feathered tribe, which a naturalist would not expect to 
find here, a ‘ humming bird,’ was shot near the beach by a young mid- 
shipman.—Stokes MS. 
