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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 aborigines -- Infection generated by associated men in health -- Blue
Mountains -- View of the grand gulf-like valleys -- Their origin and formation -- Bathurst,
general civility of the lower orders -- State of Society -- Van Diemen's Land -- Hobart
Town -- Aborigines all banished -- Mount Wellington -- King George's Sound --
Cheerless aspect of the country -- Bald Head, calcareous casts of branches of trees --
Party of natives -- Leave Australia.
CHAPTER XX.
Keeling Island -- Singular appearance -- Scanty Flora -- Transport of seeds -- Birds and
insects -- Ebbing and flowing springs -- Fields of dead coral -- Stones transported in the
roots of trees -- Great crab -- Stinging corals -- Coral-eating fish -- Coral formations --
Lagoon islands or atolls -- Depth at which reef-building corals can live -- Vast areas
interspersed with low coral islands -- Subsidence of their foundations -- Barrier-reefs --
Fringing-reefs -- Conversion of fringing-reefs into barrier-reefs, and into atolls --
Evidence of changes in level -- Breaches in barrier-reefs -- Maldiva atolls, their peculiar
structure -- Dead and submerged reefs -- Areas of subsidence and elevation --
Distribution of volcanoes -- Subsidence slow and vast in amount.
CHAPTER XXI.
Mauritius, beautiful appearance of -- Great crateriform ring of mountains -- Hindoos -- St.
Helena -- History of the changes in the vegetation -- Cause of the extinction of
land-shells -- Ascension -- Variation in the imported rats -- Volcanic bombs -- Beds of
infusoria -- Bahia, Brazil -- Splendour of tropical scenery -- Pernambuco -- Singular reefs
-- Slavery -- Return to England -- Retrospect on our voyage.
INDEX.
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
FRONTISPIECE. H.M.S. "BEAGLE" IN STRAITS OF MAGELLAN. MT.
SARMIENTO IN THE DISTANCE.
PLATE 1. H.M.S. "BEAGLE" UNDER FULL SAIL, VIEW FROM ASTERN.

PLATE 2. H.M.S. "BEAGLE": MIDDLE SECTION FORE AND AFT, UPPER DECK,
1832.
PLATE 3. FERNANDO NORONHA.
PLATE 4. INCRUSTATION OF SHELLY SAND.
PLATE 5. DIODON MACULATUS (Distended and Contracted).
PLATE 6. PELAGIC CONFERVAE.
PLATE 7. CATAMARAN (BAHIA).
PLATE 8. BOTOFOGO BAY, RIO DE JANEIRO.
PLATE 9. VAMPIRE BAT (Desmodus D'Orbigny).
PLATE 10. VIRGIN FOREST.
PLATE 11. CABBAGE PALM.
PLATE 12. MANDIOCA OR CASSAVA.
PLATE 13. RIO DE JANEIRO.
PLATE 14. DARWIN'S PAPILIO FERONIA, 1833, NOW CALLED AGERONIA
FERONIA, 1889.
PLATE 15. HYDROCHAERUS CAPYBARA OR WATER-HOG.
PLATE 16. RECADO OR SURCINGLE OF GAUCHO.
PLATE 17. HALT AT A PULPERIA ON THE PAMPAS.
PLATE 18. EL CARMEN, OR PATAGONES, RIO NEGRO.
PLATE 19. BRAZILIAN WHIPS, HOBBLES, AND SPURS.
PLATE 20. BRINGING IN A PRISONER.
PLATE 21. IRREGULAR TROOPS.
PLATE 22. SKINNING UJI OR WATER SERPENTS.
PLATE 23. RHEA DARWINII (Avestruz Petise).
PLATE 24. LANDING AT BUENOS AYRES.
PLATE 25. MATÉ POTS AND BAMBILLIO.

PLATE 26. GIANT THISTLE OF PAMPAS.
PLATE 27. CYNARA CARDUNCULUS OR CARDOON.
PLATE 28. EVENING CAMP, BUENOS AYRES.
PLATE 29. ROZARIO.
PLATE 30. PARANA RIVER.
PLATE 31. TOXODON PLATENSIS. (Found at Saladillo.)
PLATE 32. FOSSIL TOOTH OF HORSE. (From Bahia Blanca.)
PLATE 33. MYLODON.
PLATE 34. HEAD OF SCISSOR-BEAK.
PLATE 35. RHYNCHOPS NIGRA, OR SCISSOR-BEAK.
PLATE 36. BUENOS AYRES BULLOCK-WAGGONS.
PLATE 37. FUEGIANS AND WIGWAMS.
PLATE 38. OPUNTIA DARWINII.
PLATE 39. RAISED BEACHES, PATAGONIA.
PLATE 40. LADIES' COMBS, BANDA ORIENTAL.
PLATE 41. CONDOR (Sarcorhamphus gryphus).
PLATE 42. BASALTIC GLEN, SANTA CRUZ.
PLATE 43. BERKELEY SOUND, FALKLAND ISLANDS.
PLATE 44. YORK MINSTER (Bearing south 66 degrees east.)
PLATE 45. CAPE HORN.
PLATE 46. CAPE HORN (Another view).
PLATE 47. BAD WEATHER, MAGELLAN STRAITS.
PLATE 48. FUEGIAN BASKET AND BONE WEAPONS.
PLATE 49. FALSE HORN, CAPE HORN.
PLATE 50. WOLLASTON ISLAND, TIERRA DEL FUEGO.

PLATE 51. PATAGONIANS FROM CAPE GREGORY.
PLATE 52. PORT FAMINE, MAGELLAN.
PLATE 53. PATAGONIAN BOLAS.
PLATE 54. PATAGONIAN SPURS AND PIPE.
PLATE 55. CYTTARIA DARWINII.
PLATE 56. EYRE SOUND.
PLATE 57. GLACIER IN GULF OF PENAS.
PLATE 58. FLORA