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C O N T E N T S. 



Valparaiso — Juan Fernandez — Fishery — Goats — Dogs — 

 Geology — Botany — Shells — Spanish accounts — Anson's 

 voyage — ^Talcahuano — Concepcion — Pinoleo — Araucanian 

 Indians — Re-enter the Strait of Magalhaens — Fuegians 298 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



Adelaide's last cruise — Port Otway — San Quintin — Marine 

 Islands — Unknown river or passage — San Tadeo — Isthmus 

 of Ofqui — San Rafael — Sufferings and route of Wager's 

 party — Channel's Mouth — Byron — Cheap — Elliot — 

 Hamilton — Campbell — Indian Cacique — Passage of the 

 Desecho — Osorio — Xavier Island — Jesuit Sound — Kirke's 

 report — Night tides — Guaianeco Islands — Site of the 

 Wager's wreck — Bulkely and Cummings — Speedwell Bay 

 — Indigenous wild Potato — Mesier Channel — Fatal Bay 

 — Death of Mr. Millar — Fallos Channel — Lieutenant Sky- 

 ring's illness — ^English Narrow — Fish — ^Wigwams — In- 

 dians — Level Bay — Brazo Ancho — Eyre Sound — Seal — 

 Icebergs — Walker Bay — Nature of the Country — Habits 

 of the Natives — Scarcity of population 323 



CHAPTER XIX. 



Sarmiento Channel — Ancon sin Salida — -Cape Earnest — 

 Canal of the Mountains — Termination of the Andes — 

 Kirke Narrow — Easter Bay — Disappointment Bay — Ob- 

 struction Sound — Last Hope Inlet — Swans — Coots — Deer 

 River — Lagoon — Singular Eddies — Passage of the Narrow 

 — ^Arrival at Port Famine — Zoological remarks 34)6 



CHAPTER XX. 



Beagle sails from San Carlos — Enters Strait — Harbour of 

 Mercy — Cape Pillar — Apostles — Judges — Landfall Island 

 — Cape Gloucester — Dislocation Harbour — Week Islands 

 — Fuegians — Latitude Bay — Boat's crew in distress — 

 Petrel — Passages — Otway Bay- — Cape Tate — Fincham Is- 



