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and other plants — Chiasognatlius — Otter — White Egret — 

 'Fish. — Molluscs — Echinoderms — Cross the Gulf of Penas 

 and enter the Messier Channel — Island Harbour — Large 

 Helix — Halt Bay — Barking bird — Pinguicula antarctica — 

 Eden Harbour — Channel Indians — Coleoptera — Eainy weather 

 — Hoskyn Cove — Tall ferns — Turkey-buzzard — Return to 

 Island Harbour — Ascend a mountain — Campsidium Chilense 

 — Gale — Reach Chiloe — Tenoun — Huite — Small opossum 

 — Frog — Fungus — Cinclodes Patagonicus — Scissor - bill — 

 Rara — Narrow escape from being wrecked — Lota — Lapageria 

 — Euxenia — Boldu — Marine animals — Coal - mine — Tal- 

 cahuano — Excursion to Concepcion . . . . .341 



CHAPTER XIL 



Valparaiso— Walks in the neighbourhood — Excursion to Santa 

 Rosa — Bad state of the roads — Cactus-clad hills — Adobe 

 walls — View of the Cordillera — Botany of Quebradas near 

 Valparaiso — Proceed to Coquimbo — Sterile aspect of the coun- 

 try — Plants — SheU-beds — Dredging — Terrestrial and Marine 

 animals — Earthquake shock — New Tubularia — Excursion in- 

 land — Samo — valle — Torre — Tamaya — Panulcillo — Indian 

 graves — Giant humming-bird — Camarons — Return to Val- 

 paraiso — Diez-y-Ocho — Plants — Excursion to Santiago — 

 Museum — Valdivia's house, etc. . . . . . .377 



CHAPTER XIIL 



Leave Valparaiso — Arrive at Lota — Long ride — Luco Bay — Roble 

 — Buddlea — Trachypterus — Torpedos — Plants — Marine ani- 

 mals — Quels — Piure — Reach San Carlos de Ancud — Cormo- 

 rants and Petrels — Edwardsia microphylla — Quehuy — Calceo- 

 laria — Luzuriaga — Rhinoderma — Indian inhabitants of Que- 

 huy — Guaytecas Islands — Port Melinka — Cave with bones of 

 Chonos Indians — Port Laguna — Plants — Myopotamus — Dar- 

 win Channel — Enter the Messier Channel — Lebetanthus — 

 Gray Harbour — Chilina — Port Grappler — Fi sh — Curious 

 plant — Cranium of deer — Puerto Bueno — Amphibia — Oxalis 

 Magellanica — Fortune Bay — Indians — Fish — Meet a whaling 



