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the eyes, a central patch on the cephalo-thorax, and a longi- 

 tudinal line extending along the centre of the tail, being 

 bluish-black. I afterwards ascertained them to be young 

 specimens of the Grimothea gregaria, an animal closely allied 

 to Galathea, and not unfrequently to be met with in these lati- 

 tudes. The following year I received specimens which had 

 been taken by the ofi&cers of the " I^arcissus " at San Carlos 

 in Falkland Sound, and they have been observed in the south 

 of Fuegia both by Dana and Dr. Hooker. They appear also 

 to have attracted the attention of various of the older naviga- 

 tors ; Sir Eichard Hawkins, among the number, speaking of a 

 cove not far from the Strait of Magellan, where " all the water 

 was full of a small kinde of red Crabbes." The barometer 

 began to fall during the afternoon of this day, and continued 

 falling rapidly during the night, the wind rising at the same 

 time ; so that, by the forenoon of the 4th, it was blowing 

 a gale from S.W., and there was a heavy sea on, and we 

 were therefore obliged to keep greatly off our course. By 

 the evening, however, the barometer had again begun to 

 ascend ; and early on the morning of the 5th the wind died 

 almost entirely away ; and, accordingly, sail was taken in, and 

 we were able to keep right on our way under steam. Very 

 early on the following morning Cape Yirgins was made, and 

 after we had anchored for a short time on the Sarmiento Bank 

 to await the approach of daylight, we entered the Strait, and 

 finding the " Zealous," which had left the Falkland Islands a 

 few days before us lying off Cape Possession, we anchored 

 near her, and remained there for the rest of the day, as the 

 weather appeared unpropitious for proceeding farther on. 

 Here we obtained a fine haul of Wcddheimia venosa, some 

 Calyptrece, dead Volutes, etc. 



It having been arranged that the "Nassau" should pilot 



