198 CHANTICLEER—CAPE HORN. April 1829. 
By an angular measurement of its altitude, and the distance 
given by the chart, its height must be nearly five thousand 
feet, and the average height of its neighbouring mountains full 
three thousand. 
A south-west gale now set in, and delayed our reaching 
Cape Horn until the 16th, when we anchored off the entrance 
of St. Martin’s Cove and found the Chanticleer moored within. 
A boat soon after came with the welcome infermation of all 
being well on board her. We were not able to warp into the 
Cove until next day, and in doing so found much difficulty, 
owing to the violence of the squalls, which repeatedly obliged 
us to slacken the hawsers quickly, else we should have carried 
them away. 
The Adventure was moored in seventeen fathoms, about a 
cable’s length within the low green point on the south side: 
and the Chanticleer lay in ten fathoms near the head of the 
Cove. The summit of Cape Horn being in a line with the 
south point of entrance, we were quite land-locked, and per- 
fectly sheltered from all winds, excepting the williwaws, or 
furious gusts from off the high land, which sometimes suddenly 
struck the ship, and threw her on her broadside ; but being:as 
momentary in duration as they were sudden in approach, we 
found them more disagreeable than dangerous. 
During our stay here J made a partial survey of the Bay of 
St. Francis, which has since been completed by Captain Fitz 
Roy. St. Joachim’s Cove, to the southward of St. Martin’s 
Cove, is more exposed than the latter, but is of easier depth. 
These coves are separated from each other by a steep and 
precipitous mass of hills of greenstone, which in many parts 
appear to be stratified, the dip being to the westward, at an 
angle of 40°. I landed at the point, and ascended the hill, which 
I found more difficult to do than I supposed, the whole surface 
being covered with stunted beech bushes, so thickly matted or 
interwoven together, that I was obliged to walk or crawl over 
their tops. Among them were occasionally seen the berberis 
ilicifolia and veronica, the latter of very small size. Another 
day, Lieutenant Kendall, of the Chanticleer, accompanied me 
