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Doris -- Compound animals.
CHAPTER X.
Tierra del Fuego, first arrival -- Good Success Bay -- An account of the Fuegians on board -- Interview with the savages -- Scenery of the forests -- Cape Horn -- Wigwam Cove -- Miserable condition of the savages -- Famines -- Cannibals -- Matricide -- Religious feelings -- Great Gale -- Beagle Channel -- Ponsonby Sound -- Build wigwams and settle the Fuegians -- Bifurcation of the Beagle Channel -- Glaciers -- Return to the Ship -- Second visit in the Ship to the Settlement -- Equality of condition amongst the natives.
CHAPTER XI.
Strait of Magellan -- Port Famine -- Ascent of Mount Tarn -- Forests -- Edible fungus -- Zoology -- Great Seaweed -- Leave Tierra del Fuego -- Climate -- Fruit-trees and productions of the southern coasts -- Height of snow-line on the Cordillera -- Descent of glaciers to the sea -- Icebergs formed -- Transportal of boulders -- Climate and productions of the Antarctic Islands -- Preservation of frozen carcasses -- Recapitulation.
CHAPTER XII.
Valparaiso -- Excursion to the foot of the Andes -- Structure of the land -- Ascend the Bell of Quillota -- Shattered masses of greenstone -- Immense valleys -- Mines -- State of miners -- Santiago -- Hot-baths of Cauquenes -- Gold-mines -- Grinding-mills -- Perforated stones -- Habits of the Puma -- El Turco and Tapacolo -- Humming-birds.
CHAPTER XIII.
Chiloe -- General aspect -- Boat excursion -- Native Indians -- Castro -- Tame fox -- Ascend San Pedro -- Chonos Archipelago -- Peninsula of Tres Montes -- Granitic range -- Boat-wrecked sailors -- Low's Harbour -- Wild potato -- Formation of peat -- Myopotamus, otter and mice -- Cheucau and Barking-bird -- Opetiorhynchus -- Singular character of ornithology -- Petrels.
CHAPTER XIV.
San Carlos, Chiloe -- Osorno in eruption, contemporaneously with Aconcagua and Coseguina -- Ride to Cucao -- Impenetrable forests -- Valdivia -- Indians -- Earthquake -- Concepcion -- Great earthquake -- Rocks fissured -- Appearance of the former towns -- The sea black and boiling -- Direction of the vibrations -- Stones twisted round -- Great Wave -- Permanent Elevation of the land -- Area of volcanic phenomena -- The connection between the elevatory and eruptive forces -- Cause of earthquakes -- Slow elevation of mountain-chains.
CHAPTER XV.
Valparaiso -- Portillo Pass -- Sagacity of mules -- Mountain-torrents -- Mines, how discovered -- Proofs of the gradual elevation of the Cordillera -- Effect of snow on rocks -- Geological structure of the two main ranges, their distinct origin and upheaval -- Great subsidence -- Red snow -- Winds -- Pinnacles of snow -- Dry and clear atmosphere -- Electricity -- Pampas -- Zoology of the opposite sides of the Andes -- Locusts -- Great Bugs -- Mendoza -- Uspallata Pass -- Silicified trees buried as they grew -- Incas Bridge -- Badness of the passes exaggerated -- Cumbre -- Casuchas -- Valparaiso.
CHAPTER XVI.
Coast-road to Coquimbo -- Great loads carried by the miners -- Coquimbo -- Earthquake -- Step-formed terraces -- Absence of recent deposits -- Contemporaneousness of the Tertiary formations -- Excursion up the valley -- Road to Guasco -- Deserts -- Valley of Copiapó -- Rain and Earthquakes -- Hydrophobia -- The Despoblado -- Indian ruins -- Probable change of climate -- River-bed arched by an earthquake -- Cold gales of wind -- Noises from a hill -- Iquique -- Salt alluvium -- Nitrate of soda -- Lima -- Unhealthy country -- Ruins of Callao, overthrown by an earthquake -- Recent subsidence -- Elevated shells on San Lorenzo, their decomposition -- Plain with embedded shells and fragments of pottery -- Antiquity of the Indian Race.
CHAPTER XVII.
Galapagos Archipelago -- The whole group volcanic -- Number of craters -- Leafless bushes -- Colony at Charles Island -- James Island -- Salt-lake in crater -- Natural history of the group -- Ornithology, curious finches -- Reptiles -- Great tortoises, habits of -- Marine lizard, feeds on seaweed -- Terrestrial lizard, burrowing habits, herbivorous -- Importance of reptiles in the Archipelago -- Fish, shells, insects -- Botany -- American type of organisation -- Differences in the species or races on different islands -- Tameness of the birds -- Fear of man an acquired instinct.
CHAPTER XVIII.
Pass through the Low Archipelago -- Tahiti -- Aspect -- Vegetation on the mountains -- View of Eimeo -- Excursion into the interior -- Profound ravines -- Succession of waterfalls -- Number of wild useful plants -- Temperance of the inhabitants -- Their moral state -- Parliament convened -- New Zealand -- Bay of Islands -- Hippahs -- Excursion to Waimate -- Missionary establishment -- English weeds now run wild -- Waiomio -- Funeral of a New Zealand woman -- Sail for Australia.
CHAPTER XIX.
Sydney -- Excursion to Bathurst -- Aspect of the woods -- Party of natives -- Gradual extinction of the