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nacoes. A very large dead cod-fish was also seen, floating 

 past, which was taken on board ; on its skin were several 

 parasites.* 



With the evening tide the Beagle reached Gregory Bay; and 

 the next day (April 4th) worked through the Second Narrow, 

 and anchored in Pecket Harbour. 



As soon as she arrived people were sent on shore to make a 

 large fire, to show the natives where the ship was, and attract 

 them to her. Next morning, the 5th, it had spread very much, 

 and overrun several acres of ground, which showed either a 

 very dry soil, or that there had not been much rain for some 

 time. The ground was covered with cranberries ; so much so, 

 that it had quite a red tinge ; they were very good. Plenty of 

 wild celery was found, but no wood of any kind. Water was 

 obtained in small quantities, from a spring about eighty yards 

 from the beach, abreast of the anchorage : it may also be pro- 

 cured by sinking wells. Early on the 6th of April the Adelaide 

 anchored near the Beagle. Captain Fitz Roy went on board, 

 and found that Lieutenant Graves had seen the Indians in 

 Gregory Bay ; and had anchored there for the purpose of 

 obtaining guanaco meat, of which he got about nine hundred 

 pounds weight. Thick fogs had prevented his getting through 

 the First Narrow until the 4th. At Gregory Bay, Lieutenant 

 Graves took three Portuguese seamen on board, who claimed 

 his protection, having been left by an English sealing vessel 

 nearly a year before. One of them asked to be again put 

 ashore, and was landed on Quoin Hill to carry a message to 

 the Indians, from whom he promised to bring a supply of meat 

 in two days. The other two were entered on the books as 

 supernumeraries, and employed in the Adelaide. Having given 

 the Beagle two-thirds of the meat, the Adelaide weighed ; and 

 in two hours was out of sight, on her way to Port Famine. 



* Probably they are the same as we observed on the fish taken by us 

 off Cape Fairweather, and which, I believe, to be nearly allied to the 

 one that is figured in Cuvier's R^gne animal, Plate XV. figure 5, a 

 species of Lernoia^ or Entomoda of Lamarck, iii. 233. The species 

 is new. 



