T N D E X. 



687 



Darwin, Mount, 215 — height, i\6 — 



Sound, 217, 218. 

 Deluge, remarks on facts with reference 



to, 657-682. 

 Desertas Islands, 386. 

 Desire, Port, coast from, to Valdes 



Creek, examined by Paz and Liebre, 



282 — Indians' traces, wells full, 303 



— inlet examined, 316 — river, rock, 



317, 322. 

 Desolation. Cape, 218. 

 Diego San, Cape, breakers, 119, 120. 

 Divide, Point, burning-tree, slate, rock, 



219. 



Dogs, Patagonian, 151, 167, 174— Fue- 

 gian dogs trained to catch birds while 

 roosting, 184 — hunting, 187 — fine 

 animals, taught to bring in food, birds, 

 hunt fish, 187 — described, 201 — at 

 King George Sound, 627 — at Keeling 

 Islands, fishing, 634. 



Douglas, Mr., engaged to collect infor- 

 mation, 363 — survey in boats, 364 — 

 remarks on Huilli-che superstitions, 

 388-390 — on Calbucanos, 390, 391 — 

 Chilotes, voyages, father's account of 

 ' Los Cesares,' 392, 393. 



Earle, Mr. Augustus, engaged as artist, 

 19, obliged to return to England, 20. 



* Eight stones,' vain search for, 46. 



Elena, Santa, Port, 305. 



Equator, passages out and home, 3, 4 — 

 absurd ceremonies in crossing, 57 — 

 notice of by Kotzebue, 58. 



English Bank (see Banco Yngles). 



(San Carlos), nature of 



bank, 378. 



Estevan, San, or Stephen's Port, dis- 

 tressed sailors, 370 — story, 371, 372 



Falklands, bad weather, 226— aspect of 

 land, wrecks, 227 — position, number, 

 asserted claims of various countries, 

 228, 237 — Buenos Ayrean ' coman- 

 dante' appointed, subsequent events, 

 England re-asserts her sovereignty, 

 H.M.S. Tyne and Clio re-hoist her 

 flag, 238-240 — shores, violent Avinds. 

 tides, remarkable currents, 241-243 

 — storms, 244 — seasons, temperature, 

 245 — harbours, 246— country, 247 — 

 peat, animals, 248 — wild cattle, horses, 

 foxes, 249-252— changes and trans- 

 port of animals, 253 — rabbits, whales, 

 254 — fish, 255 — birds, brushwood. 



fuel, grass, 256— soil, potash, 257 — 

 increase of animals, 258 — vegetable 

 productions, trees, 259 — plants, bal- 

 sam, 260 — rushes, improvements, 

 colonizing, 261 — suggestions, 263 — 

 cattle, pilotage, 264, 265— ports, wool, 

 266 — Vernet's establishment, 266- 

 269— events there, 270 — ruined set- 

 tlement, 271 — lights, 276,277 — fossil 

 bones, 277, 278 — wild-cattle hunts, 

 279-281^ — sad occurrences there, 327- 

 335. 



Famine, Port, 321, 322. 



Feejee Islands (native name, Navahi), 

 dangerous navigation, natives^, canni- 

 balism, 559 — white men among them, 

 Charles,' cautions, treachery, deal- 

 ing with savages, 560, 561 — canoes, 

 trade, alligator, bones, winds, 462. 



Fernandez, Juan, effects of great earth- 

 quake, Ulloa, volcanic appearance at 

 the summit of Yungue (note) 418. 



Fire, mountain forests on fire, give rise 

 to reports of volcanoes, 203, 204. 



First Narrow, tide, 321,322. 



Forastes, Padre, entices men to desert, 

 393— search for them, 394, 395. 



Fossils in Port Belgrano, 107 — in San 

 Salvador Bay, 278 — near Tilly Road, 

 304 — curious, near Concepcion, 421- 

 423— in Andes, 667. 



Foxes of Falkland Isles, apparent va- 

 rieties, 250 — remarks, 251 — changes 

 produced by food, climate, 252 — trans- 

 port, 253, 254 — fox called ' culpen' in 

 Araucania (note) 450. 



Friendly, or Tonga Islands, missionaries, 

 opposition. Mariner's account, 559. 



Frio, Cape, 67, 70 — currents, 71, 72. 



Fuegians, account of those brought 

 home, 1 — cannibalism, fate of old 

 women, feelings on seeing strange 

 sights, 2 — ages, reasons for being 

 brought to England, 4, 5, 6 — vacci- 

 nated, 7 — * Boat- Memory,' catches 

 small-pox, 8 — death, 9 — character, 

 plan for educating others, 10 — jour- 

 ney to London, anecdote, Waltham- 

 stow, 11 — kind treatment, improve- 

 ment, at St. James's, 12, 13 — private 

 arrangements for their return, changed 

 by Beagle's re-commission, 13, 14 — 

 at Plymouth, 15 — presents, 16 — 

 ' Fuegia,' at Botafogo Bay with Eng- 

 lish family, 80 — natives seen near 



