250 NATUEAL HISTORY OF 



CHAPTER VIII. 



LEAVE RIO FOR THE STRAIT — ARRIVE AT MONTE VIDEO — EXCURSION 



TO BUENOS AYRES MUSEUM ROMAN CATHOLIC PROCESSION 



LEAVE MONTE VIDEO — VIOLENT PAMPERO AMIMALS TAKEN IN 



TOWING-NET FLIGHT OF MOTHS ENTER THE STRAIT SEA- 

 LIONS CHIONIS ALBA REACH SANDY POINT MAGELLANIC 



PRIMROSE CAPE PORPESSE — BLACK-NECKED AND WHITE SWANS 



CAPE NEGRO EMBOTHRIUM COCCINEUM EAGLE VISIT TO 



SANTA MAGDALENA PENGUINS REMARKABLE CORMORANT- 

 ROOKERY SIR RICHARD HAWKINS' DESCRIPTION OF THE 



ISLAND — RAMBLE ON THE COAST OF GREGORY BAY~MARECA 

 CHILOENSIS. 



The season being now sufficiently far advanced to permit of 

 our return to the scene of our labours, the " Nassau " left 

 the bay of Eio Janeiro on the morning of the 14th of Octo- 

 ber, to begin her southerly voyage. It was a most brilliant 

 sunny day, and as we slowly left the narrow entrance of the 

 harbour behind us, the view of the Sugar-loaf, Gavia, and 

 other well-known heights, lying in mingled sunshine and 

 shadow, with the blue cloudless sky overhead, and the white 

 surf breaking at their feet, was singularly fine. We soon en- 

 countered a rather heavy swell, the result of rough weather 

 on the two preceding days, but proceeded quietly onward 

 under steam and sail, nothing specially worthy of record 

 taking place. The following morning the screw was got up, 

 and for the next two days we proceeded prosperously under 

 sail, maintaining a rate of from six to eight knots, until noon 



