Cruise of the "Alert"

CHAPTER III.

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Trinidad Channel gouged out by Glaciers--Port Henry--Trumpet-shells--Native Camp--Wolsey Sound--"Cache Diablo"--"Ripple-marked" Limestone--Fuegian Burial-place--Marine Animals--Strange Capture of Fish--Whales Abundant--Exploration of Picton Channel--Attack on Sealers--Signs of Old Ice Action--"Hailstone" Rock--Soil motion--We proceed Northward to Refit--English Narrows--Gulf of PeƱas 66-80