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to get permit from Gomez. Took Torito with them, and 
we were glad to get rid of him. Still day. 
May 2j^ Monday. Still day. Afternoon to other side of 
river, Jean, Claude, dog, and self. Dug midden, but nothing. 
Photographed George and Domingo, three women and 
children and dogs (Plate VII). Clear sky and heavy frost in 
morning. Turned in before cena. 
May 28 , Tuesday. Colourless still cold day with cloudy sky 
and no frost. Writing most of day. Walk just before sunset. 
Everything very dark and dreary and forbidding, seemed to 
be hard and relentless and lacking in feeling of New Zealand 
Fiords even in stormy weather, but reds and russet-browns, 
and plum-coloured and deep green beech woods very fine, 
and keen silvery white of distant snow mountains was re¬ 
flected in long drawn out lines in the dark water. Long thin 
line of white margining the base of the mountains across the 
Murray Channel. 
May 29 , Wednesday. Mechai is Spanish name for small 
tree, perhaps 12-15 f eet high, with prickly leaves, closely 
resembling English holly. Two kinds of deciduous beech 
(‘alto’) on mountains, a larger and a smaller. Evergreen 
beech grows lower on mountains. Lena dura is name given 
to good firewood, but not beech. 
Native names given to shells: 1 chiton, yakaua\ patella, 
1 Through the kindness of Mr. G. C. Robson and Mr. J. R. le B. Tomlin of 
the British Museum (Natural History), the shells which Spencer collected have 
been identified as follows: Plaxiphora setigera {King), Mytilus chorus {Molina), 
Mytilus magellanicus {Dillvyn), Chlamys patagonicus {King), Protothaca thaca 
{Molina), Protothaca fuegiensis {Smith), Protothaca antiqua {King), Marcia exalbida 
{Dillvoyn), Patinigera aenea {Martyn), Patinigera aenea var. magellanica {Gmelin), 
Fissurella picta ( Gmelin ), Fissurella ? darwinii {Reeve), Crepipatella dilatata {La¬ 
marck), Natica patagonica (Philippi), Voluta ancilla {Solander), Acanthina calcar 
{Martyn) (imbricata Latyiarck), Concholepas peruviana {Lamarck), Trophon murici- 
formis {King), Trophon cretaceus {Reeve), Euthria antarctica {Reeve), Fusitriton 
magellanicus {Dillvoyn), Photinula crawshayi {Smith), Margarella violacea {King). 
With Yaghan skeleton (pp. 74, 85), three specimens of Euthria plumbea {Philippi) 
were sent. 
