244 TIERRA DEL FUEGO. Jan. 1833. 



contrasted with the dead white of an expanse of snow. As 

 fragments fell from the glacier into the water, they floated 

 away, and the channel with its icebergs represented in minia- 

 ture the polar sea. When we reached the western mouth of 

 this branch of the channel, we sailed amongst many unknown 

 islands, and then proceeded by the outer coast to the en- 

 trance of the other arm. Thence we returned to Ponsonby 

 Sound, saw the Fuegians, and arrived at the ship after our 

 twenty-days' excursion. 



