June 1829. ADELAIDE RETURNS—PLAN. 9A] 
night. Not even a frost-bitten foot could prevent me from 
sleeping soundly for the first time during many nights. 
“Oth. At one o’clock this day, I heard anexclamation of 
‘The schooner !’ and soon saw her standing across from the 
Barbara Channel with a fair wind. Before she anchored in Port 
Gallant, I went on board, and, to my joy, found Lieutenants 
Skyring and Graves, and all their companions well, having 
thoroughly completed the work they had to perform, without loss, 
or even an accident. The difficulty of their task was increased by 
very bad weather ; but they succeeded in tracing and surveying 
the Magdalen Channel to its junction with the sea, and thence 
returned by the Barbara Channel to Port Gallant ; carrying 
on a regular chain of triangles, and connecting their work with 
points previously fixed in the Strait of Magalhaens. A multi- 
tude of small islands, and much bad weather, detained them 
longer than was expected. 
** While Lieutenants Skyring and Graves, assisted by Mr. 
Kirke, were employed surveying, Mr. Bynoe collected geolo- 
gical and other specimens.* 
“11th. We had nearly reached the shortest day ; the sun 
did not rise above the hills until past eleven; it disappeared 
again before two (the land being less high towards the N.W.), 
and even in those three hours was seldom visible. 
“© 12th. Finding that Lieutenant Skyring agreed with me 
in thinking that the channel from Cape Tamar to the Gulf of 
Trinidad might be surveyed by the Adelaide, in her way to 
San Carlos de Childe, I resolved to send him and Lieutenant 
Graves on that service, hoping that it would lead to the disco- 
very of a passage into the Skyring Water, and give vessels 
another way of getting into or out of the Strait, should thick 
weather or adverse winds oppose them in the usual channel. 
“In making thisearrangement there was much to be con- 
sidered.» As I had received no orders from Captain King to 
employ the Adelaide in surveying, after her return from the 
Magdalen Channel ; and as I had been desired to repair, with 
her, to San Carlos, in Childe, during which voyage Lieutenant 
* Geol. Soc. Museum, Nos. 176 to 205, and Zool. Mus. 
VOT. R 
