THE STRAIT OF MAGELLAN. 279 



CHAPTEE IX. 



EXCURSION TO GALLEGOS RIVER — PLANTS OBSERVED — LOST IN THE 

 WILDS REMARKABLE PARASITIC CRUSTACEA ON FISH CON- 

 STANT GALES SECOND VISIT TO FALKLAND ISLANDS BOG- 

 PLANTS PENGUIN-ROOKERIES MOUNT WILLIAM FALKLAND 



SOUND TYSSEN ISLANDS — TUSSAC GROVE TAMENESS OF THE 



BIRDS FOX BAY RETURN TO THE STRAIT EXCURSION IN 



NEIGHBOURHOOD OF MOUNT DINERO CONDORS SECOND VISIT 



TO QUARTERMASTER ISLAND — FUEGIAN DOGS. 



On the 14th, 15th, and 16th of December it was blowing so 

 hard that we could not leave our anchorage, and the wind lasted 

 till about three p.m. on the 17th, when it fell considerably, 

 and advantage was taken of this circumstance to get under 

 way and execute* a considerable amount of sounding. On the 

 18th it was again blowing hard ; on the 19th the wind fell, 

 and allowed us again to resume our operations ; but on the 

 20th this unwearied enemy again kept us unwillingly idle. 

 The greater number of us were by this time beginning to feel 

 this perpetuity of gales a severe strain on our patience, and 

 therefore rejoiced when Captain Mayne determined on carry- 

 ing out a piece of work which promised to afford a little 

 variety — namely, in conformity with instructions received 

 before we left England, to make a trip to the Gallegos river, 

 on the east coast of Patagonia, to institute a search for a 

 deposit of fossil bones discovered by Admiral Sulivan and 

 the present hydrographer of the Navy, Eear- Admiral G. H. 

 Kichards, about twenty years previously, and which Mr. 



