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CHAPTER V.
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Lieutenant Sholl arrives—Beagle returns—Loss of the Saxe
Coburg sealer—Captain Stokes goes to Fury Harbour to
save her Crew—Beagle’s proceedings—Bougainville’s memorial—
Cordova’s memorial—Beagle’s danger—Difficulties—
Captain Stokes’s boat-cruise—^Passages—^Natives—
Dangerous service—^Western entrance of the Strait of
Magalhaens—Hope’s cruise—^Prepare to return to Monte
Video.
CHAPTER VI.
-Gregory Bay—
of the Natives—
Trees—Leave Port Famine—Patagonians
Bysante—Maria—FaUmer’s account
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Indians seen on the borders of the Otway Water, in 1829
Maria visits the Adventure—^Rehgious ceremony—Patagonian
Encampment—Tomb of a Child—^Women’s employment—
Children— Gratitude of a Native— Size of
Patagonians-—^Former accounts of their gigantic height—
Character — Articles for barter — Fuegians hving -with
Patagonians—Ships sail—Arrive at Monte Video and Rio
de Janeiro.................................................................................... ^4
CHAPTER VII.
Leave Rio de Janeiro — Santos — S*.“ Catharina — Monte
Video—Purchase the Adelaide schooner, for a Tender to
the Adventure—Leave Monte Video—^Beagle goes to Port
Desire—Shoals off Cape Blanco—BeUaco Bock—Cape
Virgins—Possession Bay—First Narrow—Race—Gregory
B a y— View—Tomb—Traffic with Natives—Cordial meeting
Maria goes on board—^Natives intoxicated—Laredo
Bay—Port Famine ...................... ...........................................
CHAPTER VIII.
Find that the Cutter had been burned—Anxiety for the Beagle—
Uxbridge Sealer—^Beagle arrives—Her cruise—Bel-
laco Rock—S'tiu Julian—Santa Cruz—Gahegos—Adeona
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—^Death of Lieutenant ShoU—Adelaide sails— Supposed
Channel of San Antonio—Useless Bay—Natives—Port
San Antonio—Humming-birds—Fuegians-— Beagle sails
—Sarmiento -— Roldan -— Pond — Whales —Structure —
Scenery—Port Gallant............................................................. 118
CHAPTER IX.
Detention in Port Gallant — Humming-birds in snow
showers—Fuegians—Geological remarks—Canoes—Carving—
Birds— Fish—Shag Narrows—Glaciers—Avalanches—
Natives—Chmate—Winter setting in—Adelaide
loses a boat—Floods—Lightning—Scurvy—Adelaide’s
survey—Bougalnvihe Harbour—Indians cross the Strait,
and visit Port Famine—Sealing vessels sail— Scurvy increases—
Adelaide sent for guanaco meat—Return of the
Beagle—Captain Stokes very ih—Adelaide brings meat
from the Patagonians—Death of Captain Stokes................. 133
CHAPTER X.
Account of the Beagle’s cruise—^Borja Bay—Cape Quod—
• Stuart Bay — Cape Notch—Remarks on weather, and
errors of Chart—^Evangehsts— Santa Lucia—Madre de
Dios—Gulf of Trinidad—Port Henry—^Puma’s track—
Humming-birds—^Very had weather—Campana Island—-
Dangers—Gale—^W et—Sick—Santa Barbara—^W ager’s
beam—^Wigwams—Guaineco Islands—Cape Tres Montes
—St. Paul—Port Otway—Hoppner Sound—Cape Raper 154
CHAPTER XL
Leave Port Otway—San Quintin Sound—Gulf of Peñas—■
Kehy Harbour—St. Xavier Island—Death of Serjeant
Lyndsey—Port Xavier—Ygnacio Bay—Channel’s mouth
-—Bad weather—Perilous situation—Lose the yawl—Sick
I'®*-—Return to Port Otway—Thence to Port Famine—-
Gregory Bay—Natives—Guanaco meat— Skunk— Con-
d™®—^Brazilians—Juanico—Captain Foster—Changes of
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