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were accumulated. While the others were engaged in taking 

 a round of angles, I visited three shallow patches of salt water 

 in the neighbourhood. I found that the Fuegians had crossed 

 one of these, and I measured several of their footprints left 

 in the clay at the edge of the water. These were very broad 

 across the toes, and narrow at the heel, the largest being about 

 eight inches and three-quarters in length, while the smallest 

 measured only seven inches. Three Fuegian dogs wandered 

 about in our vicinity, barking and howling dismally. The first 

 was much like a fox in size and general appearance, and of 

 a reddish-gray colour ; the second had a piebald smooth coat, 

 with drooping ears ; while the third was clothed with long 

 dark brownish-black hair, had erect ears, and presented a 

 marked resemblance to a small wolf. As usual, I made a 

 collection of the plants of the locality, obtaining, among 

 others, two yellow-flowered species of Senecio, Homoiantlius 

 echinulahcs, Emjpetrum ruhrum, Armeria maritima, a species 

 of Hordeum^ the Eritrichium found at Sta. Magdalena and 

 other localities, and Phacelia circinata, a plant common in 

 the neighbourhood of Sandy Point. The dredge yielded in 

 this locality a fine orange-coloured sea-cucumber, about three 

 inches long ; several specimens of Galathea subrugosa, and a 

 curious Isopod of the genus Cymodocea, which, believing it to 

 be new, I have named C. Darwinii. In the afternoon I landed 

 on another part of the coast, nearly opposite Sandy Point, 

 and obtained specimens of Geum Magellanicum, a yellow 

 Sisyrinchium, etc. Here, as in the former locality, the burrows 

 of the Ctenomys abounded, and probably this is nearly the 

 southernmost boundary of the animal. We anchored early in 

 the evening off Sandy Point, and next day there was such a 

 heavy swell on the beach that we could not land ; while 

 heavy rain fell, as if to prepare us for the experience we were 

 shortly to be called upon to encounter in the west. 



