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 65 CHAPTER VI. Trees--Leave Port Famine--Patagonians--Gregory Bay-- Bysante--Maria--Falkner's account of the Natives-- Indians seen on the borders of the Otway Water, in 1829-- Maria visits the Adventure--Religious 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 living with Patagonians-- Ships sail--Arrive at Monte Video and Rio de Janeiro 84 CHAPTER VII. Leave Rio de Janeiro--Santos--Sta. 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--Bellaco Rock--Cape Virgins--Possession Bay--First Narrow--Race--Gregory Bay--View--Tomb--Traffic with Natives--Cordial meeting-- Maria goes on board--Natives intoxicated--Laredo Bay-- Port Famine 106 CHAPTER VIII. Find that the Cutter had been burned--Anxiety for the Beagle--Uxbridge Sealer--Beagle arrives--Her cruise-- Bellaco Rock--San Julian--Santa Cruz--Gallegos--Adeona-- {xxiii} Death of Lieutenant Sholl--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-- Climate--Winter setting in--Adelaide loses a boat-- Floods--Lightning--Scurvy--Adelaide's survey--Bougainville 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 ill--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--Evangelists--Santa Lucia--Madre de Dios--Gulf of Trinidad--Port Henry--Puma's track--Humming-birds--Very bad weather--Campana Island--Dangers--Gale--Wet--Sick-- Santa Barbara--Wager's beam--Wigwams--Guaineco Islands-- Cape Tres Montes--St. Paul--Port Otway--Hoppner Sound-- Cape Raper 154 CHAPTER XI.