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Crustacea, and Echinoderms, including many fine specimens 

 of Cliiton fastigiatus and Fusus laciniatus, as well as a number 

 of small live examples of Lithodes antarctica. Next morning 

 we got under way, and crossed over to Tilly Bay, on the 

 opposite Fuegian coast, where we spent some hours. Here 

 some geese {Chloephaga jpoliocephala) were shot, and I obtained 

 a number of specimens of a curious little fish, the Har^pagifer 

 hi-spinis, previously recorded from Cape Horn and the Falk- 

 land Islands, as well as several good examples of Fusus laci- 

 niatus, which were feeding on the Mytili, by means of drilling 

 a circular aperture in the valves of the shell. Among the 

 few plants procured in flower were the Oxalis Magellanica and 

 the Accena pumila. In the evening we returned to Fortescue 

 Bay, and there anchored, being joined by the boats, and there- 

 after learning that the Indians had gathered in numbers in 

 our absence, and given the surveyors some trouble. A small 

 Yankee schooner, laden with cargo for Valparaiso, was lying at 

 anchor in the bay, having arrived some hours previously. Her 

 skipper came on board before long, and evidently felt very 

 apprehensive of being attacked by the Indians, who in this 

 part of the Strait have a bad reputation for piracy, and had 

 been lighting gathering-fires in all directions. This evening 

 we despatched a seining-party, and obtained a good haul of 

 fish thereby, principally consisting of the Eleginus madovinus, 

 which furnished an agreeable variety to our monotonous diet 

 of preserved and salt meat. 



On the 3d, Sunday, we remained at anchor all day, and 

 were visited by a few of the Indians, who, however, did not 

 come on board. On the following morning we left the bay, 

 and proceeded eastwards, passing Capes Holland and Froward, 

 and anchoring in St. Nicolas bay about ten A.M., immediately 

 after which two of the officers and myself borrowed the dingy, 



