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WILD GOATS TALCAHUANO CONCEPCION. 1830. 



Yungue, and thence to a pass over the principal range, com- 

 municating with the other side of the island. This pass, called 

 the PuertozLiela, is 1,800 feet high, and was visited several 

 times by the officers. On one occasion, they went to the wes- 

 tern part of the island, to hunt wild goats. The party set 

 out in boats with the mayor-domo, or governor, as their guide ; 

 but before they reached the proper landing-place, became so 

 impatient that they landed, intending to walk back. The gover- 

 nor, however, persevered,^ and returned, in the evening, with 

 five fine she-goats, which he had taken with ' lazos.' Our pedes- 

 trians found their return by no means so easy as they had 

 contemplated, being obliged to pass the night in a cave, which 

 they fortunately found at sunset, and they did not reach the 

 ship until the following afternoon, fatigued, but much pleased 

 by their ranible. 



Tlie thermometer on board ranged, during the day, between 

 63° and 82°, and the barometer between 29*98, and 30 16. 

 On shore the thermometer stood higher, in fine, unclouded wea- 

 ther, and lower when the summits of the hills were covered 

 with clouds. 



We put to sea on the 22d, anchored at Talcahuano on the 

 3d of March, and sailed again on the 17th, to proceed through 

 the Strait of Magalhaens. 



While at Concepcion I had an opportunity of seeing Pino- 

 leo,* the Indian chief, from whom Captain Basil Hall endea- 

 voured to obtain the release of a captured Araucanian female, 

 whose husband had been murdered in cold blood before her 

 eyes.-|* 



Mr. Rouse, our consul, procured for me the necessary in- 

 troduction, and, with one of the governor's aides-de-camp, 

 accompanied us to the Indian quarters, situated on the out- 



* Pinoleo (from 'Pino,' pisando; and ' leo,' rio ; or, pisando sobre el 

 rio, living close to the banks of a river), is the Chief of a small tribe, 

 whose territory is near the River Imperial ; but he generally lives in the 

 confines of Concepcion. He has four wives in the interior (la tierra) 

 and three in the town. 



t Hall's Extracts from a Journal, vol. i. pp.316. 322, 



