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sick, as well as the unfavourable symptoms of their disease. 
The Beagle’s term of absence was, however, drawing to a close, 
and I caused a rumour to be spread, that upon her appearance 
we should quit Port Famine. To give a semblance of reality 
to this report, the topmasts were ordered to be fidded, and the 
ship otherwise prepared for sea, which had a manifest effect 
upon the scorbutic, of whom several were in a bad stage of 
that horrid disease, and many others were just attacked. We 
found ourselves now, too, thrown on our own resources for fresh 
food: scarcely a fish was taken with the hook, and the seine, 
although frequently shot, never caught anything. Of birds, 
only a few hawks and small finches were procured, which were 
all reserved for the sick, the greater number of whom lived 
on shore, at the tents, where they might walk about, and amuse 
themselves as they pleased. 
The Adelaide returned from Bougainville Harbour on the 
18th of June, having succeeded in the object for which she 
was sent. The extremity of Cape Froward, a bluff head, over 
which is a round-topped hill (precisely the French ‘ Morre’) 
is what Sarmiento called the Morro de Santa Agueda. Any 
name given by this excellent old navigator is too classical and 
valuable to be omitted ; therefore, while the extremity itself 
may retain the modern appellation of Cape Froward, the moun- 
tain by which it is formed may still be allowed to keep his 
distinction. Behind it, the land rises to a higher ridge, the 
edge of which is remarkably serrated, and probably of a slaty 
character. 
The specimens procured from the Cape were clay-slate, 
much intermixed with iron pyrites, and crossed by small veins 
of white quartz. Of the anchorages examined by Mr. Graves, 
Bougainville Harbour, better known to sealers by the name of 
Jack’s Cove, or Harbour, is the most sheltered. 
It is surrounded on all sides by high precipitous hills, 
thickly clothed with trees. The depth is moderate, and the 
water so beautifully clear, that the anchors, and even shells 
and stones, were distinctly seen upon the bottom. It was here 
that Bougainville procured wood for the use of the settlement 
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