XIV CONTENTS. 



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Monte Video — "Violent pampero — Animals taken in towing- 

 net — Flight of moths — Enter the Strait — Sea- lions — Chionis 

 alba — Keach Sandy Point — Magellanic primrose — Cape 

 Porpesse — Black-necked and white swans — Cape Negro — 

 Embothrium coccineum — Eagle — Visit to Santa Magdalena — 

 Penguins — Kemarkable cormorant-rookery — Sir Kichard 

 Hawkins' description of the island — Kamble on the coast of 

 Gregory Bay — Mareca Chiloensis . . . . .250 



CHAPTER IX. 



Excursion to Gallegos Eiver — Plants observed — Lost in the wilds 

 — Eemarkable parasitic Crustacea on fish — Constant gales — 

 Second visit to Falkland Islands' — Bog-plants — Penguin- 

 rookeries — Mount William — Falkland Sound — Tyssen Islands 

 — Tussac grove — Tameness of the birds — Fox Bay — Eetum to 

 the Strait — Excursion in neighbourhood of Mount Dinero — 

 Condors — Second visit to Quartermaster Island — Fuegian 



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CHAPTER X. 



Leave Sandy Point for the westward — Botany of Playa Parda 

 Cove — ShoU Bay — Channel Indians — Wet weather — Otter 

 Islands — Grammitis australis — Glaciers — Ice at the entrance 

 of Eyre Sound — Eden Harbour — Small frog — Podocarpus — 

 Lepidothamnus — Mitraria — Halt Bay — Weinmannia — Loma- 

 tia — Enter the Gulf of Penas — Bad weather — Capture of alba- 

 trosses — Keach San Carlos — Vegetation ; Citharexylon ; 

 Fuchsias ; Escallonias ; Myrtles — Humming-birds — Oysters — 

 Ferns — Lizards — Birds — Loranthus — Foxglove — Visit the 

 town of Ancud — Chilian nettle — Scissor-bill — Concholepas — 

 Porcellana — Bad weather — Marine animals — Egg of Callo- 

 rhynchus .......... 308 



CHAPTER XL 



Leave San Carlos — Oscuro Cove — Tricuspidaria — Mussels and 

 huge barnacles — Port San Pedro — Port Otway — Columnea 



