CONTENTS, 



XXV 



CHAPTER XV. 



PAGE 



Extracts from the Journals of Lieutenants Skyring and 

 Graves — Magdalen Channel — Keats Sound — Mount Sar- 

 miento — Barrow Head — Cockburn Channel — Prevalence 

 of south-west winds — Melville Sound — Ascent of Mount 

 Skyring — Memorial — Cockburn and Barbara Channels — 

 Mass of Islets and Rocks — Hewett Bay — Cypress trees 

 useful — Adelaide rejoins Beagle in Port Gallant — Captain 

 King's narrative resumed — Plan of future proceedings — 

 Adelaide arrives at Chiloe — Abstract of Lieutenant Sky- 

 ring's account of her proceedings — Smyth Channel — 

 Mount Burney — 'Ancon sin Salida' — Natives — Kirke 

 Narrow — Guia Narrow — Peculiar tides — Indians in plank 

 Canoes — Passage to Chiloe 25 1 



CHAPTER XVI. 



Chiloe — Its probable importance — Valdivia founds seven 

 Cities ; afterwards destroyed by the Indians — Migration of 

 Spanish settlers — Province and Islands of Chiloe — Dis- 

 tricts and population — Government — Defence — Winds — 

 Town — Durability of wooden Buildings — Cultivation — 

 Want of industry — Improvement — Dress — Habits of lower 

 Classes — Morality — Schools — Language — Produce — 

 Manufactures — Exports and imports — Varieties of wood — 

 Aler se — Roads — Piraguas — Ploughs — Corn — Potatoes — 

 Contributions — Birds — Shell-fish — Medical practitioners 

 Remedies — Climate 269 



CHAPTER XVII. 



Chiloe the last Spanish possession in South America — Freyre's 

 Expedition — Failure — Second Expedition under Freyre 

 and Blanco — Quintanilla's capitulation — Chiloe taken — 

 Aldunate placed in command — Chiloe a dependency of 

 Chile — Beagle sails to sea coast of Tierra del Fuego — 

 Adelaide repaired — Adelaide sails — Adventure goes to 



