Jan. 1827. 



Cordova's memorial. 



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A Boreali ad Austra miserium postridie Kalcndse 



Novembris emigravit. 



Decimo quarto Kalendas Januarii Patagonicis recognitis 

 litoribus ad ostium appulit freti. 



Tandem ingentibus periculis et horroribus tam in mari quam 

 in freto mag-nan ime et constanter supera^w et omnibus 

 portubus atque navium fundamentis utriusque litoris 

 correctissime cog-nitis ad hunc portum Divini Jose vel 

 Galante septimo idu Januarii pervenit ubi ad 

 perpetuam rei memoriam in monte sanctissimse crucis hoc 

 raonumentum reliquit. 



Tertio et excelso Carolo regnante potente 

 Regali jussu facta fuere suo. 

 Colocatum fuit nono Kalendse Februarii Anno MDCCLXXXIX. 



together with a list of the officers of both vessels, and enclosing 

 a memorial of Cordova's former voyage in the Santa Maria de 

 la Cabeza. The originals are placed in the British Museum ; 

 but before we finally left the Strait, copies were made on vel- 

 lum, and deposited on the same spot. 



The Beagle left Port Gallant* with a fair wind, which carried 

 her to Swallow Harbour. 



The next stopping place was Marian's Cove, a very snug 

 anchorage on the north shore, a few miles beyond Playa 

 Parda. Proceeding thence to the westward, with the wind 

 ' in their teeth,' and such bad weather, that they could only 

 see the land of either coast at intervals, and failing in an 

 attempt to find anchorage under Cape Upright, the Beagle 

 was kept under weigh during a squally dark night. 



In that very place, Commodore Byron, with the Dolphin 

 and Tamar, passed the anxious night, which he thus de- 

 scribes : — 



" Our situation was now very alarming ; the storm increased 

 every minute, the weather was extremely thick, and the rain 

 seemed to threaten another deluge ; we had a long dark night 

 before us, we were in a narrow channel, and surrounded on 



* One of the feathered tribe, which a naturalist would not expect to 

 find here, a ' humming' bird,' was shot near the beach by a young- mid- 

 shipman. — Stokes MS. 



