Since 1881 the eastern portion of Tierra del Fuego, together with Staten Island (usually called by sailors Staten Land), has belonged to the Argentine, and the western end to Chile, the boundary-line being supposed to run from Cape Espiritu Santo due south to Beagle Channel, the only settlement within hundreds of miles being Punta Arenas (Sandy Point) on the Patagonia side of the straits, where the Chileans have a convict and coaling station. The Straits of Magellan were discovered by the celebrated Portuguese of that name, though he spelled it Magalhães, who sailed through them in 1520. If any one wishes to look at a remarkable sight, let him possess himself of one of Imray’s charts of Tierra del Fuego and examine the prodigious number of channels, fjords, and inlets in this remote and vast archipelago which forms the abode of eight thousand people as low in the gauge of civilization as can be found upon the earth. I wonder how many persons are aware of the fact that the famous old “Dreadnaught” laid her bones upon the bleak rocks of Tierra del Fuego as her final resting place! She drifted ashore near the Straits of Magellan, while on a voyage to San Francisco, during a heavy swell in a dead calm, with her main-sky-sail set. What a sorrowful end for that grand old ship, the “Wild Boat of the Atlantic,” the queen of the clippers, the fastest of all the great fleet which sailed the ocean from Sandy Hook to Queenstown! Peace to her remains in her grave by these iron-bound shores! Latitude, 54° 19′ south; longitude, 65° 45′ west. +July 11+