463 SANTA CATALINA RIO DE JANEIRO. 1830. 



On the 9th of July we sailed from Monte Video, — on the 

 18th made the high land over the island of Santa Catalina, and 

 after dark anchored in the bay. My object in calling there 

 was to continue the chronometric chain, between Tierra del 

 Fuego and Ilio de Janeiro, by as short intervals as possible : 

 and the results so obtained proved to be very satisfactory. 



" While in Monte Video I tried to have the Fuegians vac- 

 cinated, but the virus did not take any effect on them. Little 

 Fuegia was living several days with an English family, who 

 were extremely kind to her ; and the others were on shore at 

 different times with me. No one noticed them ; being so very 

 like the Indians of the neighbourhood. 



" The apparent astonishment and curiosity excited by what 

 they saw, extraordinary to them as the whole scene must have 

 been, were much less than I had anticipated ; yet their con- 

 duct was interesting, and each day they became more com- 

 municative. It was here that I first learned from them that 

 they made a practice of eating their enemies taken in war. The 

 women, they explained to me, eat the arms ; and the men the 

 legs ; the trunk and head were always thrown into the sea. 



" On the 23d we sailed from Santa Catalina ; and on the 

 Sd of August anchored in the harbour of Rio de Janeiro." 



Here the extracts from Captain Fitz Roy's Journal end. 



The Adventure and the Beagle sailed together from Rio de 

 Janeiro on the 6th of August, having left the Adelaide as a 

 tender to the flag-ship, but reimbarked her officers and crew ; 

 and, after a most tedious passage, anchored in Plymouth Sound 

 on the 14th of October. Both vessels were soon afterwards 

 paid off; the Beagle at Plymouth, and the Adventure at 

 Woolwich. 



