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CIIAI'TEK XIII 



Chiiou — General aspect — IJeiaL e\CLii\ii(jn — NlUuu Indian^ — Castro — Tame Tux — 

 Ascend San IVdru — Chonus Archipelago — Peninsula of Tres Moiites — Ciraniuc 

 rani^e — lioaL-wrecke*! sailors — L<j\v's Ilailjour — ^^'|M ptualo Formation of 

 peat — ^[)■opota^uI^, olter arjl mice — ChLucan and IJarkrny-hird — ( )petio- 

 rhynchus — Sint^iiiar cliaiacter lA ornitholoLiy — Petrels. 



ciiil(je a^d ciionos islam is 



Novoiibcr \otli.- Tlic Beax^L' sailctl from \^.-tIpaiTiiso in the 

 south, for the [Hirposc of siir\-cyiii;_;~ tiic sotitlici-n part of Chile, 

 the ishtnd of Chiloe, ami the lj|-okeii lainl ettlU.al the (lioiKis 

 Arehipelao'o, as far sijuth as tfie I'eiiiiistihi of Tres ^Iniitc's. 

 On the 2 1st \\-e anchored in the ba)' of S. CarNjs, the capitol 

 of Chiloe. 



This island is abotit ninety miles Ion-, with .t breadth of 

 rather less than thirl\-. The htnd is hilly, Init not mountainous, 

 and is covi;red b)' one i^re.it lorest, e\i ept where a few ;^ri'en 

 patches have been cleared round the thatched cotta^^es. broni 



