CHAPTER XXII. 



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

 Islands from Henderson Island — Weddell's Indian Cove — Sympie- 

 someter — Return to Christmas Sound — Beagle sails — Passes the Ilde- 

 fonso 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 — r 

 Chanticleer — Mistake about St. Francis Bay — Diego Ramirez Islands 

 Climate — San Joachim Cove — Barnevelt Isles — Evouts Isle — Lennox 

 Harbour. 



"14th. This morning the master returned, having succeeded 

 in tracing the coast far enough to join our former work, 

 although the weather had been very unfavourable. He met 

 with many Fuegians, most of whom were armed with slings, 

 spears, and cutting weapons made with pieces of iron hoop 

 fastened on a stick. They were very troublesome, especially 

 at night, and obliged him to keep them at a distance. Their 

 respect for a musket was not so great as might have been 

 expected, and unless they saw it tolerably close, and pointed 

 directly at them, they cared not. The boafs crew bought some 

 fish from them, for buttons and other trifles. From forty to 

 fifty men, besides women and children, were seen in one place 

 alone ; and many were met elsewhere. 



" Mr. Murray penetrated nearly to the base of the snow- 

 covered mountains, which extend to the eastward in an unbro- 

 ken chain, and ascertained that there are passages leading 

 from Christmas Sound to the large bay where the whale-boat 

 was stolen ; and that they run near the foot of the mountains. 

 He also saw a channel leading farther to the eastward than 

 eye-sight could reach, whose average width seemed to be about 

 a mile. He left the two children in charge of an old woman 

 whom they met near the westernmost part which his party 

 reached, who appeared to know them well, and to be very 

 much pleased at having them placed in her care. 



"15th. Raining and blowing : — as usual, I might say. When 



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