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tinuance of passage through the Messier Channel — Stop and 
trawl off Middle Island — The pretty scenery — Anchor in Gray 
Harbour — The excursions — Grass and trees on fire — The 
grand effect at night — Leave Gray Harbour — Messier Channel 
and Indian Keach — The English Narrows — Mid-Channel 
Island— The fine scenery — Dredging off Saumaurez Island — 
Anchor in Port Grappler — The derelict Karnack — Weather 
during our stay — Leave Port Grappler — Pass through Wide 
Channel — Dredging, &c. — Anchor in Tom Bay — The excur- 
sionists — Squally weather — Drag our anchors — Leave Tom 
Bay — Conception Channel — Proposed survey in the Trinidad 
Channel frustrated through the ■weather — Pass through the 
Conception Channel — Soundings, &c., in the Innocent 
Channel — The fine scenery — Anchor in Puerto Bueno Bay — 
Pretty scenes — The weather — Leaving Puerto Bueno Bay — 
The scenery and weather in passing through Sarmiento 
Channel— Sounding and dredging — The Zach Peninsula — 
Anchor in Isthmus Bay — Leave Isthmus Bay — Passing 
through Mayne Channel and Smyth’s Channel — The fine 
scenery— Enter the Straits of Magellan — Cape Pillar in sight 
— Enter the picturesque port of Churruca — The Glaciers — 
Leave Port Churruca — Pass through Crooked and English 
Beaches — Off Fortescue Bay — The Euegians — Off Cape 
Froward — Anchor in Port Famine — The old Spanish settle- 
ment in 1581 — The Chilian settlement of 1843— Leave Port 
Famine and arrive at Sandy Point— The Chilian settlement — 
Coal mines and gold workings — Leave Sandy Point and reach 
the anchorage off Elizabeth Island — Exploring parties — 
Finding fossil bones — Leave Elizabeth Island — Passing 
through the Second and First Narrows— Off Gregory Bay — 
Pass the Meridian of Cape Horn — Again in the Atlantic— Pass 
Cape Virgin— Sounding and trawling . . . * k . . 346 
CHAPTEB XVIII. 
CAPE VIRGIN TO FALKLAND ISLANDS AND MONTE VIDEO 
Our first haul in the Atlantic— The Jason Islands — Eddystone 
Bock — Cape Pembroke, Falkland Islands, in sight — Enter Port 
William — Anchor off Stanley — The settlement — Climate — 
Death of an able seaman by drowning — Leave for Port Louis 
— Anchor in Berkley Bay — Funeral of our late shipmate — 
Beturn to Stanley — The stream of stones — Leaving the 
