CONTENTS. 



VOLUME 1. 



CHAPTER I. 



VAGE 



Departure from Monte Video — Port Santa Elena — Geologi- 

 cal remarks — Cape Fairweather — Non-existence of Chalk 

 — Natural History — Approach to Cape Virgins, and the 

 Strait of Magalhaens (or Magellan) 1 



CHAPTER 11. 



Enter the Strait of Magalhaens (or Magellan), and anchor 

 off Cape Possession — First Narrow — Gregory Bay — Pata- 

 gonian Indians — Second Narrow — Elizabeth Island — 

 Freshwater Bay — Fuegian Indians — Arrival at Port Famine 1 2 



CHAPTER III. 



Prepare the Beagle, and a decked boat (the Hope) for sur- 

 veying the Strait — Beagle sails westward, and the Hope 

 towards the south-east — Sarmiento's Voyage — and des- 

 cription of the colony formed by him at Port Famine — 

 Steamer Duck — Large trees — Parroquets — Mount Tarn- 

 Barometrical observations — Geological character — Report 

 of the Hope's cruise 26 



CHAPTER IV. 



Deer seen — Hope sails again — Eagle Bay — Gabriel Channel 

 — * Williwaws ' — Port Waterfall — Natives — Admiralty 

 Sound — Gabriel Channel — Magdalen Channel — Hope re- 

 turns to Port Famine — San Antonio — Lomas Bay — Loss 

 of boat — Master and two seamen drowned 48 



