CONTENTS. 



XX 111 



— Death of Lieutenant ShoU — Adelaide sails — Supposed 

 Channel of San Antonio — Useless Bay — Natives — Port 

 San Antonio — Humming-birds — Fuegians — Beagle sails 

 — Sarmiento — Roldan — Pond — Whales — Structure — 

 Scenery— Port Gallant 118 



CHAPTER IX. 



Detention in Port Gallant — Humming-birds in snow 

 showers — Fuegians — Geological remarks — Canoes — Car- 

 ving — Birds — Fish — Shag Narrows — Glaciers — Avalan- 

 ches — Natives — Climate — Winter setting in — Adelaide 

 loses a boat — Floods — Lightning — Scurvy — Adelaide's 

 survey — ^Bougainville Harbour — Indians cross the Strait, 

 and visit Port Famine — Seahng vessels sail — Scurvy in- 

 creases — Adelaide sent for guanaco meat — Return of the 

 Beagle — Captain Stokes very ill — Adelaide brings meat 

 from the Patagonians — Death of Captain Stokes 133 



CHAPTER X. 



Account of the Beagle's cruise — Borja Bay — Cape Quod — 

 Stuart Bay — Cape Notch — Remarks on weather, and 

 errors of Chart — Evangelists — Santa Lucia — Madre de 

 Dios — Gulf of Trinidad — Port Henry — Puma's track — 

 Humming-birds — Very bad weather — Campana Island — 

 Dangers — Gale — Wet — Sick — Santa Barbara — Wager's 

 beam — Wigwams — Guaineco Islands — Cape Tres Montes 

 — St. Paul — Port Otway — Hoppner Sound — Cape Raper 154 



CHAPTER XI. 



Leave Port Otway — San Quintin Sound — -Gulf of Penas — 

 Kelly Harbour — St. Xavier Island — Death of Serjeant 

 Lyndsey — Port Xavier — Ygnacio Bay — Channel's mouth 

 — Bad weather — Perilous situation — Lose the yawl — Sick 

 list — Return to Port Otway — Thence to Port Famine — 

 Gregory Bay — Natives — Guanaco meat — Skunk — Con- 

 dors — ^Brazilians — Juanico — Captain Foster — Changes of 

 officers , 173 



