April 1829. CRANBERRIES—THICK FOGS. 213 
nacoes. A very large dead cod-fish was also seen, floating 
past, which was taken on board ; on its skin were several 
parasites.* 
With the evening tide the Beagle reached Gregory Bay; and 
the next day (April 4th) worked through the Second Narrow, 
and anchored in Pecket Harbour. 
As soon as she arrived people were sent on shore to make a 
large fire, to show the natives where the ship was, and attract 
them to her. Next morning, the 5th, it had spread very much, 
and overrun several acres of ground, which showed either a 
very dry soil, or that there had not been much rain for some 
time. The ground was covered with cranberries; so much so, 
that it had quite a red tinge; they were very good. Plenty of 
wild celery was found, but no wood of any kind. Water was 
obtained in small quantities, from a spring about eighty yards 
from the beach, abreast of the anchorage: it may also be pro- 
cured by sinking wells. Early on the 6th of April the Adelaide 
anchored near the Beagle. Captain Fitz Roy went on board, 
and found that Lieutenant Graves had seen the Indians in 
Gregory Bay; and had anchored there for the purpose of 
obtaining guanaco meat, of which he got about nine hundred 
pounds weight. Thick fogs had prevented his getting through 
the First Narrow until the 4th. At Gregory Bay, Lieutenant 
Graves took three Portuguese seamen on board, who claimed 
his protection, having been left by an English sealing vessel 
nearly a year before. One of them asked to be again put 
ashore, and was landed on Quoin Hill to carry a message to 
the Indians, from whom he promised to bring a supply of meat 
in two days. The other two were entered on the books as 
supernumeraries, and employed in the Adelaide. Having given 
the Beagle two-thirds of the meat, the Adelaide weighed ; and 
in two hours was out of sight, on her way to Port Famine. 
* Probably they are the same as we observed on the fish taken by us 
off Cape Fairweather, and which, I believe, to be nearly allied to the 
one that is figured in Cuvier’s Régne animal, Plate XV. figure 5, a 
species of Lernea, or Entomoda of Lamarck, ili. 233. The species 
is new. 
