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CONTENTS. 



quimbo — Wreck — Challenger — Blonde — Ride — Estate — 

 Colcura — Villagran — Arauco — Former caciques ---Coloco- 

 lo — Caupolican — Scenery — Quiapo — Night travelling — 

 Leiibu — Tucapel — Valdivia — Lautaro — Challenger 419 



CHAPTER XX. 



Challenger sails — Sounds off Mocha — Wrecked on the main- 

 land — Crew saved — Stores landed — Camp formed — Great 

 exertions, and excellent conduct — Mr. Consul Rouse — 

 Leiibu — Plague of mice — Curious rats — Return to Blonde 

 — Ulpu — Araucanian dress^ — Arauco — 'Boroanos ' — Tubul 

 — Bar rivers — Apples — Ferry — Blonde sails — Seek for the 

 Leiibu — Schooner Carmen — Errors and delay — Embark 

 Challenger's crevi^ — Rescue the Carmen — Talcahuano — 

 New Concepcion — Valparaiso — Coquimbo — Challenger's 

 sail in Conway — Reflections 451 



CHAPTER XXL 



Andes — Aconcagua — Villarica — Islay — Powder — Callao — 

 Rejoin Beagle — Constitucion — Plans — Wilson — Carrasco 

 — ' Galajjagos ' — Iguanas — Lava Rocks — Land-tortoises — • 

 Craters — Turtle — Shells — Dye — ^Volcanoes — Settlement 

 — Albemarle Island — Cyclopian Scene — Tagus Cove — 

 Tide Ripples — Settlers — Climate — Salt — Dampier — Birds 

 — Transportation of Tortoises — Currents — Temperature 

 of Water 481 



CHAPTER XXIL 



Dangerous Archipelago of the Low Islands — Krusenstern 

 — Squalls — Discoveries — Otaheite — Matavai — Natives — 

 Houses — Point Venus — Theft — Singing — Pomare — Sugar 

 — Papiete — Church — Mr. Pritchard — Thierry — Shells — 

 Mr. Nott — Bible — Paamuto Natives — Falkner — 'Ua' — 

 Papawa — Relics — Divine Service — Hitote — Henry — Au- 

 dience — Queen — Missionaries — Roman CathoHcs — Form- 



