Leave Port Otway--San Quintin Sound--Gulf of Peñas--Kelly Harbour--St. Xavier Island--Death of Serjeant Lyndsey-- Port Xavier--Ygnacio Bay--Channel's mouth--Bad weather-- Perilous situation--Lose the yawl--Sick list--Return to Port Otway--Thence to Port Famine--Gregory Bay--Natives-- Guanaco meat--Skunk--Condors--Brazilians--Juanico--Captain Foster--Changes of officers 173 {xxiv} CHAPTER XII. Adventure sails from Rio de Janeiro to the River Plata-- Gorriti--Maldonado--Extraordinary Pampero--Beagle's losses--Ganges arrives--another Pampero--Go up the river for water--Gale, and consequent detention--Sail from Monte Video--part from Consorts--Port Desire--Tower Rock-- Skeletons--Sea Bear Bay--Fire--Guanacoes--Port Desire Inlet--Indian graves--Vessels separate--Captain Foster-- Chanticleer--Cape Horn--Kater Peak--Sail from St. Martin Cove--Tribute to Captain Foster--Valparaiso--Santiago-- Pinto Heights--Chilóe--Aldunate 189 CHAPTER XIII. Beagle and Adelaide anchor in Possession Bay--Beagle passes the First Narrow--Fogs--Pecket Harbour--Adelaide arrives with Guanaco meat--Portuguese Seamen--Peculiar light--Party missing--Return--Proceed towards Port Famine--Fuegians--Lieut. Skyring--Adelaide sails to survey Magdalen and Barbara Channels--Views--Lyell Sound--Kempe Harbour--Cascade Bay--San Pedro Sound--Port Gallant-- Diet--Rain--Awnings--Boat cruise--Warning--Jerome Channel--Blanket bags--Otway Water--Frequent rain-- Difficulty in lighting fires 212 CHAPTER XIV. Place for a Settlement--Frost--Boats in danger--Narrow escape--Sudden change--Beagle Hills--Fuegian Painting-- Tides--Medicine--Water warmer than the air--Jerome Channel--Mr. Stokes returns to the Beagle--Cape Quod-- Snowy Sound--Whale Sound--Choiseul Bay--Return to the Beagle--Adelaide returns--Plan of operations--Difficulties removed--Preparations--Wear and tear of clothing--Ascend the Mountain de la Cruz--Sail from Port Gallant--Tides-- Borja Bay--Cape Quod--Gulf of Xaultegua--Frost and snow-- Meet Adelaide--Part--Enter Pacific--Arrive at Chilóe 230 {xxv} CHAPTER XV. Extracts from the Journals of Lieutenants Skyring and Graves--Magdalen Channel--Keats Sound--Mount Sarmiento-- Barrow Head--Cockburn Channel--Prevalence of south-west winds--Melville Sound--Ascent of Mount Skyring--Memorial-- Cockburn and Barbara Channels--Mass of Islets and Rocks-- Hewett Bay--Cypress trees useful--Adelaide rejoins Beagle in Port Gallant--Captain King's narrative resumed--Plan of future proceedings--Adelaide arrives at Chilóe--Abstract of Lieutenant Skyring's account of her proceedings--Smyth Channel--Mount Burney--'Ancon sin Salida'--Natives--Kirke Narrow--Guia Narrow--Peculiar tides--Indians in plank Canoes--Passage to Chilóe 251 CHAPTER XVI.