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CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER V. 



PAGE 



Lieutenant ShoU arrives — Beagle returns — Loss of the Saxe 

 Coburg sealer — Captain Stokes goes to Fury Harbour to 

 save her Crew — Beagle's proceedings — Bougainville's me- 

 morial — Cordova's memorial — Beagle's danger — Difficul- 

 ties — Captain Stokes's boat-cruise — Passages — ^Natives — 

 Dangerous service — ^Western entrance of the Strait of 

 Magalhaens — Hope's cruise — Prepare to return to Monte 

 Video 65 



CHAPTER VL 



Trees — Leave Port Famine — Patagonians — Gregory Bay — 

 Bysante — Maria — Falkner's account of the Natives — 

 Indians seen on the borders of the Otway Water, in 1829 

 — Maria visits the Adventure — Religious ceremony — Pata- 

 gonian Encampment — Tomb of a Child — ^Women's em- 

 ployment — Children — Gratitude of a Native — Size of 

 Patagonians — Former accounts of their gigantic height — 

 Character — Articles for barter — Fuegians living with 

 Patagonians — Ships sail — Arrive at Monte Video and Rio 

 de Janeiro 84 



CHAPTER VII. 



Leave Rio de Janeiro — Santos — S*.^ Catharina — Monte 

 Video — Purchase the Adelaide schooner, for a Tender to 

 the Adventure — Leave Monte Video — Beagle goes to Port 

 Desire — Shoals off Cape Blanco — Bellaco Rock — Cape 



• Virgins — Possession Bay — First Narrow — Race — Gregory 

 Bay — View — Tomb — Traffic with Natives — Cordial meet- 

 ing — Maria goes on board — Natives intoxicated — Laredo 

 Bay — Port Famine 106 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Find that the Cutter had been burned — Anxiety for the Bea- 

 gle — Uxbridge Sealer — Beagle arrives — Her cruise — Bel- 

 laco Rock — San Juhan—Santa Cruz — Gallegos — Adeona 



