Category: Travel Writing
Departure from England--Storm Petrels--A Sparrow-hawk at Sea--Collecting Surface Organisms with Tow-net--Water-kite--Wire Sounding Apparatus--Land-swallow at Sea--Gulfweed--Phosphorescence of Sea-water--Arrive at Madeira--Curious Town--Dredging Work--A Pinery--Discoloured Sea-...
We left the Falkland Islands on the evening of the 27th, and sailed to the westward. On the morning of the 1st of January, 1879, we entered the eastern entrance of the Straits o...
13. CHAPTER I.On the second day at sea the little storm petrels appeared over our wake, and accompanied us, off and on, for most of our way to Madeira. These seemed to be of two kinds, the _T...
24. CHAPTER XII.On completing our surveying work at the Amirante Group we steamed back to Port Mahé, Seychelles, in order to replenish our stock of coals. After a stay of a few days we again go...
17. CHAPTER V.On the evening of the 4th October, our small-pox patients being then sufficiently well to return on board, we sailed from Talcahuano, and proceeded to the southward in order to...
16. CHAPTER IV.On anchoring at Valparaiso on the 16th May, the first news we heard was that the country was in a great state of excitement, anent the war in which Chili was then engaged with P...
20. CHAPTER VIII.The harbour of Levuka, in which we anchored on the 18th of September, is situated on the north-east side of the island of Ovalau, and from its central position in the Fiji Group...
23. CHAPTER XI.Our voyage from Port Darwin to Singapore took place during the interval of calms which separates the north-west and the south-east monsoons, so that we were enabled to steam the...
18. CHAPTER VI.On the occasion of our last visit to Sandy Point, the captain received despatches from the Admiralty, which authorised him to proceed to Skyring Water in order to investigate th...
19. CHAPTER VII.We sailed from Coquimbo on the 14th of June; and after a somewhat uneventful voyage across the Pacific, which was considerably prolonged by sounding operations, and which lasted...
22. CHAPTER X.We remained for nearly four months anchored at or in the neighbourhood of Thursday Island. During this period our boats were employed in making a survey of the Prince of Wales C...
15. CHAPTER III.In prosecuting the survey of the Trinidad Channel, we anchored, for short periods each time, at a great many ports on its northern and southern shores; and in crossing and re-cr...
21. CHAPTER IX.We remained at Sydney, refitting ship and enjoying the unaccustomed pleasures of civilized society, from the 23rd of January, 1881, until the 16th of April, 1881, but as little...
12. CHAPTER XII.Alphonse Island--Pearl-shell--Providence Island--Method of planting Cocoa-nuts--Edible Turtle--Flora--Red Coral--Cerf Islets--St. Pierre--Du Lise Island--Flora and Fauna--Errati...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Arrival at Fiji--Levuka--Ratu Joe comes on Board--Excursion to Bau in Viti Levu--We visit King Cacobau--A Native Feast--Lalis--Tapa--The Bure Kalou--Bakola--Old Fijian Atrocitie...
11. CHAPTER XI.Voyage from Port Darwin to Singapore--Through the Eastern Archipelago--We arrive at Singapore--Oceanic "Tiderips"--Bird Island, Seychelles--Sea-birds on Land--Port Mahé, Seychel...
4. CHAPTER IV.Arrival at Valparaiso--War between Chili, Peru, and Bolivia--Sir George Nares returns to England--Captain Maclear joins--Coquimbo--Shell Terraces--Trip to Las Cardas--Habits of...
1. CHAPTER I.Departure from England--Storm Petrels--A Sparrow-hawk at Sea--Collecting Surface Organisms with Tow-net--Water-kite--Wire Sounding Apparatus--Land-swallow at Sea--Gulfweed--Phos...
9. CHAPTER IX.Refitting Ship at Sydney--Mr. Haswell joins us--We proceed Northwards along East Coast of Australia--Port Curtis, Queensland--A "Labour Vessel"--Mr. Eastlake--Marine Fauna abund...
2. CHAPTER II.We enter Straits of Magellan--Reach Sandy Point--Gold and Coal--Surrounding Country--Elizabeth Island--Dredging--Fuegians at Port Famine--We enter Smyth's Channel--Canoe "Portag...
5. CHAPTER V.We return to Patagonian Waters--Gulf of Peñas--Spring in the Trinidad Channel--Gephyrean at Cockle Cove--Diving Petrel--Tree Cormorants--Magellan Kingfisher--A Curious Moss--Win...
7. CHAPTER VII.Early History of Tahiti--Otaheite and Tahiti--Its appearance from Seaward--Harbour of Papiété--Produce--Matavai Bay--Tahiti annexed to France--Prince Tamitao--Annexation Festivi...
6. CHAPTER VI.We proceed towards Skyring Water--Otway Water--Canal of Fitzroy Terrace-levels--Plants and Animals--Bay of the Mines--Previous Explorers--The Coal Mines--Altamirano Bay--Prospec...
3. CHAPTER III.Trinidad Channel gouged out by Glaciers--Port Henry--Trumpet-shells--Native Camp--Wolsey Sound--"Cache Diablo"--"Ripple-marked" Limestone--Fuegian Burial-place--Marine Animals--...
10. CHAPTER X.Settlement at Thursday Island--Torres Straits Islanders--Pearl-Shell Fisheries--Value of the Shell--Pearls not abundant--Neighbouring Islands--Lizards--Land-crab--Land-shells--F...