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lands — Deepwater Sound — Breaker Bay — Grafton Islands 

 — Geological remarks — Barbara Channel — Mount Sky- 

 ring — Compasses affected — Drawings — Provisions — Op- 

 portunities lost 360 



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CHAPTER XXI. 



Skyring's chart — Noir Island — Penguins — Fuegians — Sar- 

 miento — Townshend Harbour — Horace Peaks — Cape 

 Desolation — Boat lost — Basket — Search in Desolation Bay 

 — ^Natives — Heavy Gale — Surprise — Seizure — Conse- 

 quences — Return to Beagle — Sail to Stewart Harbour — 

 Set out again — ^Escape of Natives — Unavailing search — 

 Discomforts — Tides — Nature of Coast — Doris Cove — 

 Christmas Sound — Cook — York-Minster — March Har- 

 bour — Build a boat — Treacherous rocks — Skirmish with 

 the Natives — Captives — Boat Memory — Petrel 386 



CHAPTER XXII. 



Mr. Murray returns — Go to New Year Sound — See Diego 

 Ramirez Islands from Henderson Island — Weddeil's Indian 

 Cove— Sympiesometer — Return to Christmas Sound — 

 Beagle sails — Passes the Ildefonso and Diego Ramirez 

 Islands — Anchors in Nassau Bay — Orange Bay — Yapoos 

 — Mr. Murray discovers the Beagle Channel — Numerous 

 Natives — Guanacoes — Compasses affected — Cape Horn — 

 Specimens — Chanticleer — Mistake about St. Francis Bay 

 — ^Diego Ramirez Islands — Climate — San Joachim Cove — 

 Barnevelt Isles — Evouts Isle — Lennox Harbour .. 417 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



Set out in boats — Find Guanacoes — Murray Narrow — Birch 

 Fungus — Tide — Channel — Glaciers — View — Mountains 

 Unbroken chain — Passages — Steam-vessels — Jemmy But- 

 ton — Puma — Nest — Accident — Natives — Murray's J our- 

 nal — Cape Graham — Cape Kinnaird — Spaniard Harbour 



