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beeches — Winter's-bark — Woodpeckers — Coleoptera — Myx- 

 ine — Anemone decapetala — Myzodendron — Cyttaria — Bar- 

 berries — Tinnunculus sparverius — Snipe — Cystopteris fragilis 

 — Large owl — Steamer-duck : notices of, by old navigators ; 

 habits, etc. — Large Cyansea — Peltarion — Halicarcinus . .51 



CHAPTEE IV. 



Commencement of surveying operations — Excursion to Patagonian 

 coast — Viscid plants — Dwarf Calceolaria — Coleoptera — Chiro- 

 damus Kingii — Edotia — Guanaco : early notices of ; habits, 

 etc. — Chinche or skunk — Foxes — Boltenia — Brachiopoda of 

 Strait — Second Excursion — Cape Possession — Condors — 

 Voluta Ferussacii — Gale — Samolus spathulatus — Iron wreck 

 — Inhabitants of North-eastern Fuegia — Catherine Point — 

 Cape Espiritu Santo — Large Tunicata — Sea-lion — Military 

 Starling — Sarmiento Bank — "Windy weather — Excursion to 

 Coast of St. Jago Bay — Geese — Gale — Burrowing rodents — 

 Carranchas — Khea — Bandurria — Visit the Patagonian camp 

 at Sandy Point — Patagonians : accounts of the older naviga- 

 tors ; religious and other ceremonies . . . . .100 



CHAPTEE V. 



Excursion to seam of coal in neighbourhood of Sandy Point — 

 Oxyurus — Peckett Harbour — Common duck of Strait — Meet a 

 party of Patagonians, and trade with them — Leave the Strait 

 for the Falkland Islands — Jason Cays — ^Reach Stanley Har- 

 bour — Climate and productions of the Falkland Islands — 

 Streams of stones — Diddle-dee berry — Balsam-bog plant — 

 Falkland Island tea-plant — Almond-flower — Lessonia — Tame- 

 ness of sea-birds — Falkland Island sorrel — Marine animals — 

 Leave the Falkland Islands for the Strait — Grimothea — 

 Reach the Strait, and pilot H.M.S. " Zealous " westward — 

 Tsenioptera — Port Famine ; establishment of a colony there 

 by Sarmiento, and fate of the colonists — First meeting with 

 Western Fuegian or Canoe Indians — Fish — Port Gallant — 

 Fuchsias — Scenery — Philesia — Libocedrus — Ferns — King- 



