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CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER IV. 



Loss of the Thetis — Causes of her wreck — Approach to Rio 

 de Janeiro — Owen Glendower — Disturbance in Rio 

 Harbour — Observations — Chronometers — Return to Ba- 

 hia — Deaths — Macacu — Malaria — Return to Rio de 

 Janeiro — Meridian Distances — Regatta — Fuegians — 

 Lightning — Leave Rio — Equipment — Santa Martha — 

 Weather — Santa Catharina — Santos — River Plata — Pam- 

 peroes — Gales off Buenos Ayres — Monte Video — Point 

 Piedras — Cape San Antonio — River Plata — Currents — 

 Tides — Barometer — Absence of Trees — Cattle 67 



CHAPTER V. 



Eastern Pampa Coast — Point Medanos — Mar-chiquito — 

 Ranges of Hills — Direction of Inlets, Shoals, and Rivers 

 — Cape Corrientes — Tosca Coast — Blanco Bay — Mount 

 Hermoso — Port Belgrano — Mr. Harris — ^Ventana Moun- 

 tain — View — Argentino — C ommandant — Maj or — Situa- 

 tion — Toriano — Indians — Fossils — Animals — Fish — Cli- 

 mate — Pumice — Ashes — Conway — ^Deliberations — Conse- 

 quent Decision — Responsibility incurred — Paz — Liebre — 

 Gale — Hunger — Fossils at Hermoso — Fossils at Point 

 Alta — Express sent to Buenos Ayres — Suspicions and 

 absurd alarm — Rodriguez 97 



CHAPTER VI. 



Beagle sails with Paz and Liebre — Part company — Beagle 

 visits Buenos Ayres — Nautical remarks on the Plata — Sail 

 from Monte Video for San Bias — Lieut. Wickham and ten- 

 ders — Butterflies — Sail for Tierra del Fuego — White 

 water — Icebergs — Rocks — Cape San Sebastian — Oens 

 men — Cape San Diego — Good Success Bay — Natives — 

 Guanacoes — Cape Horn — St. Martin Cove — Gales — 

 Heavy Seas — Nassau Bay — Goree Road — Prepare to land 

 Matthews and the Fuegians 114 



