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We saw a considerable number of guanacos during tliis day, 

 several of which, impelled by curiosity, approached to within 

 a comparatively short distance of us, and then taking fright 

 made off. We landed finally in rather a heavy surf, and 

 pitched the tent for the night, rising next morning at day- 

 break, and after breakfast proceeding farther along the coast 

 to the northward, which gradually assumed a more raised and 

 undulating character. On landing, after a time, to erect a 

 beacon, we observed on the top of a distant hill several human 

 figures, which we at first supposed to be Tuegians, but 

 presently discovered, by means of the telescope of the 

 theodolite, to be the members of another surveying party, 

 and accordingly set out to meet them. Our progress was, how- 

 ever, unexpectedly barred by the course of a narrow winding 

 river too deep for us to ford. This, which was by far the largest 

 body of running water which we encountered in the eastern 

 part of the Strait, appeared to derive its source from a range 

 of hills some miles inland ; and I should much have liked to 

 have made a thorough examination of its banks in search of 

 plants, but this our time did not permit of. We therefore 

 re-embarked, and proceeding a little farther onwards, were 

 joined by the other party, one of whom, to my great satis- 

 faction, had been so fortunate as to find a Fuegian cranium 

 lying partially immersed in a pool of water. This, which 

 is one of the very few Fuegian crania now in England, 

 has been thus described by Professor Huxley. He observes 

 that it 



" Is in a good state of preservation, except that the nasal bones and the 

 mandible are absent. The cephalic index is "78 ; . . . . but as 

 the last molar has not been cut, it is the skull of a young person, 

 and many circumstances lead me to think it may be that of a woman. 

 It is a curious circumstance that in this skull, as in that of the College 

 of Surgeons, there are very large and prominent paroccipital processes, 



