168 CAPE TRES MONTES. April 1828. 
rugged outline than that we had been hitherto coasting, since 
leaving the Strait. We steered along the western coast of the 
land near Cape Tres Montes, and at noon, being three miles’ 
from the shore, observed, in latitude 46° 5. south, the cape, 
bearing N. 80° E. (mag.), distant seven miles. The northern- 
most cape in sight N. 26° W., distant ten miles, soundings 
ninety-seven fathoms. Shortly afterwards another cape opened 
at N. 37° W. (mag.). 
‘The parallel of forty-seven degrees, the limit assigned for 
our survey, being already passed, I did not venture to follow 
the coast further, although we were strongly tempted to do so 
by seeing it trend so differently from what is delineated on the 
old charts. An indentation in the coast presenting itself 
between mountainous projections on each side of low land (of 
which the northernmost was the cape set at noon), we hauled 
in to look for an anchorage; but it proved to be a mere 
unsheltered bight, at the bottom of which was a furious surf. 
We then stood to the southward, along the land of Cape Tres 
Montes, with the view of examining the north side of the Gulf 
of Penas. 
“<The following morning was fine: Cape Tres Montes bore 
N.E., distant about three leagues. We lay off and on during 
the day, while the master went in the whale-boat, to examine 
a sandy bay (of which Cape Tres Montes was the easternmost 
point) for anchorage : he returned about sunset, and reported 
that it did afford anchorage ; but was quite unsheltered from 
wind, and exposed to a great swell. The boat’s crew had fallen 
in with a number of seals, and the quantity of young seal’s fry 
they brought on board afforded a welcome regale to their mess- 
mates and themselves. 
“ At daylight (27th) we were four leagues from Cape Tres 
Montes, bearing N. 68° W. (magnetic) a remarkable peak, 
marked in the chart the ‘ Sugar Loaf, N.19°E., distant 
twenty-four miles, and our soundings were sixty-eight fathoms. 
This peak resembled in appearance, the Sugar Loaf at Rio 
de Janeiro: it rises from a cluster of high and thickly-wooded 
islands, forming apparently the eastern shore of an inlet, of which 
