LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



H.M.S. Beagle ix Straits of Magellan 



in the distance 

 Fernando Xoronha 

 Incrustation of Shelly Sand 

 DiODON maCULATUS (Distended and Contracted) 

 Pelagic Conferv.*; 

 Catamaran (Bahia) 

 BoTOFOGO Bay, Rio Janeiro 

 \'ampire Bat (Desmodus D'Orbignyi) 

 Virgin Forest 

 Cabbage Palm 

 Mandioca or Cassaya . 

 Rio Janeiro 

 Darwin's Papilio keronia, 1833, now called Ageronia 



feronia, 18S9 . . 39 



Hydroch-Erus capvbara or Water-Hog . 40 



Recado or Surcingle of Gaucho . . 46 



Halt at a Pulperia on the P\mpas . . 64 



El Carmen, or Patagones, Rio Negro . .6; 



Brazilian Whips, Hobbles, wi' Spirs . 75 



Bringing in a Prisoner . 84 



Irregular Troops . . . S5 



Skinntng Uji or Water Serpents . . . 103 



Mt. Sarmiento 



Frontispiece 

 I 



9 

 13 

 15 

 i8 

 19 

 23 



To face 25 

 26 

 27 



To face 32 



