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CONTENTS. 



tions — View — Settlement — Animals — Foxes — Varieties 

 — Seal — Whales — Fish and Fishery— Birds — Brushwood 

 — Peat — Pasture — Potash — Orchilla — Grazing — Corn 

 — Fruit — Vegetables — Trees — Plants — Land — Situation 

 of principal Settlement — Prospective advantages — Sugges- 

 tions — Vernet's Establishment — Reflections 241 



CHAPTER XIII. 



Anchor in Berkeley Sound — Le Magellan — British flag hoisted 

 — Ruined Settlement — Mr. Hellyer drowned — Burial — 

 French Whalers — Unicorn — Adventure — Squall — Flashes 

 -r— Fossils — Killing Wild Cattle — Sail from Falklands — 

 River Negro — Maldonado — Constitucion — Heave down, 

 copper, and refit Adventure — Signs of weather — Sound 

 banks — Los Cesares — Settle with Harris, and part com- 

 pany — ^Blanco Bay — Return to Maldonado — Monte Video 269 



CHAPTER XIV. 



Paz and Liebre begin work — Chronometers — Fish — Animals 

 — San Bias — ^Wrecks — River Negro — Del Carmen — Inha- 

 bitants — Indians — Trade — WilUams drowned — Port De- 

 sire — Gale — Salinas — Lightning — Bones in Tomb — Trees 

 — Dangers — New Bay — Cattle ■ — Seal — Soil — River Chu- 

 pat— Drift Timber— Fertihty—WildCattle—Valdes Creek 

 — Imminent danger — Tide Races — Bar of the Negro — 



Hunting — Attack of Indians — Villarino — Falkner 295 



♦ 



CHAPTER XV. 



Beagle and Adventure sail from Monte Video — Port Desire 

 — ^Bellaco Rock — Refraction — Port San Julian — Viedma — 

 Drake — Magalhaens — Patagonians — Port Famine — San 

 Sebastian Bay — Woolly a — Jemmy — Story ■ — Treachery 

 — Oens men — Improvement — Gratitude — Falklands — 

 Events — Capt. Seymour — Search for Murderers — Lieut. 

 Smith — Brisbane — Wreck — Sufferings — Lieutenant Clive 

 —Sail from Falklands 316 



