OLD CHURCH, CASTRO, CHILOE. 
CHAPTER XIII 
Chiloe—General aspect—Boat excursion—Native Indians—Castro—Tame fox— 
Ascend San Pedro—Chonos Archipelago—Peninsula of Tres Montes—Granitic 
range—Boat-wrecked sailors—Low’s Harbour—Wild potato—Formation of 
peat — Myopotamus, otter and mice — Cheucau and Barking-bird — Opetio- 
rhynchus—Singular character of ornithology—Petrels. 
CHILOE AND CHONOS ISLANDS 
November io th. —The Beagle sailed from Valparaiso to the 
south, for the purpose of surveying the southern part of Chile, 
the island of Chiloe, and the broken land called the Chonos 
Archipelago, as far south as the Peninsula of Tres Montes. 
On the 21st we anchored in the bay of S. Carlos, the capital 
of Chiloe. 
This island is about ninety miles long, with a breadth of 
rather less than thirty. The land is hilly, but not mountainous, 
and is covered by one great forest, except where a few green 
patches have been cleared round the thatched cottages. From 
