CONTENTS 



CHAPTER X 



Tierra del Fuego, first arrival — Good Success Bay — An account of the Fuegians on 

 board — Interview with the savages — Scenery of the forests — Cape Horn — Wig- 

 wam Cove — Miserable condition of the savages — Famines — Cannibals — 

 Matricide — Religious feelings — -Great Gale — Beagle Channel — Ponsonby Sound 

 — Build wigwams and settle the Fuegians — Bifurcation of the Beagle Channel 

 — Glaciers — Return to the Ship — Second visit in the Ship to the Settlement — 

 Equality of condition amongst the natives . . . Pages 215-243 



CHAPTER XI 



Strait of Magellan — Port Famine — Ascent of Mount Tarn — Forests — Edible fungus 

 — Zoology — Great Seaweed — Leave Tierra del Fuego — Climate — Fruit-trees 

 and productions of the southern coasts — Height of snow-line on the Cordillera 

 — Descent of glaciers to the sea — Icebergs formed — Transportal of boulders — 

 Climate and productions of the Antarctic Islands — Preservation of frozen car- 

 casses — Recapitulation ...... 244-267 



CHAPTER XH 



Valparaiso — Excursion to the foot of the Andes — Structure of the land — Ascend 

 the Bell of Quillota — Shattered masses of greenstone — Immense valleys — Mines 

 — State of miners — Santiago — Hot-baths of Cauquenes — Gold-mines — Grind- 

 ing-mills — Perforated stones — Habits of the Puma — El Turco and Tapacolo — 

 Humming-birds ....... 268-290 



CHAPTER Xni 



Chiloe — General aspect — Boat excursion — Native Indians — Castro — Tame fox — 

 Ascend San Pedro — Chonos Archipelago — Peninsula of Tres Montes — Granitic 

 range — Boat -wrecked sailors — Low's Harbour — Wild potato— Formation of 

 peat — Myopotamus, otter and mice — Cheucau and Barking -bird — Opetio- 

 rhynchus — Singular character of ornithology — Petrels . . 291-310 



CHAPTER XIV 



San Carlos, Chiloe — Osorno in eruption, contemporaneously with Aconcagua and 

 Coseguina — Ride to Cucao — Impenetrable forests — Valdivia — Indians — Earth- 

 quake — Concepcion — Great earthquake — Rocks fissured — Appearance of the 

 former towns — The sea black and boiling — Direction of the vibrations — Stones 

 twisted round — Great Wave — Permanent elevation of the land — Area of volcanic 

 phenomena— The connection between the elevatory and eraptive forces — Cause 

 of earthquakes — Slow elevation of mountain-chains . . 311-333 



