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preters, and made them known by his chart,* I have scrupu- 

 lously followed him.-[- 



16th. Mr. Stokes set out, in a whale-boat, to work north- 

 wards, as near the sea-coast as possible, and meet me at a har- 

 bour in the Huaytecas group of islands, now called Port Low. 

 He was accompanied by Mr. Low, Mr. May,J and four men.§ 

 Moraleda, in his diary and chart, describes a channel which 

 crosses the Chonos Archipelago, and is called by the natives 

 ' Ninualac.'ll Through this passage the Chonos Indians used 

 to go once or twice a year to inspect the small herds of goats, 

 or flocks of sheep which they then had upon those outlying is- 

 lands I have already mentioned, namely Huamblin^ (Socorro), 

 and Ipun (Narborough) ; as well as upon others, of which I be_ 

 lieve Lemu, a woody island on the north side of Vallenar Road, 

 was one. Moraleda himself explored part of the continent, 

 and some of the islands adjacent to it (between 1786 and 1796)y 

 but he saw nothing of the sea face of the Chonos, What few 

 notices of it existed, prior to 1834, were obtained from the 

 voyage of Ladrilleros in 1557 ; from the Anna Pink in 1741 ; 

 from Machado in 1769 y and from the Santa Barbara in 1792 ; 

 which, when compared together, tended to confuse a hydro- 

 grapher more than they assisted him. In Spanish charts of 

 the coast from Cape Tres Montes northward to Taitaohao- 

 huon (a name long enough to perplex more verbose men than 

 sailors) from which all others, of that coast, were copied, that 

 portion must have been originally laid down according to mag- 



• Now in my possession. 



t His Huamblin and Ipun I take to be Socorro and Narborough 

 Islands, but am not certain. 



X Having very little occupation on board, in his own particular line,^ 

 just at that time, Mr. May volunteered to take an oar, as one of the boat's 

 crew. § Orders in Appendix, No. 22. 



II " Gran Canal de Ninualac, que atraviese el Archipieiago, por el in- 

 forme del practico Huenupal que casi anualmente la transita con el motivo 

 expresado en el Diario."— (Moraleda's MS. Chart, 1795.) 



^ Huamblin, if, as I suppose it, a corruption of Huampelen, means ' on 

 watch,' ' posted as a sentinel :' Ipun means < swept off,' or ' swept away :' 

 Lemu means < wood :' names singularly applicable to each of those islands 

 respectively. 



