CHAPTER IX.

Detention in Port Gallant--Humming-birds in snow showers-- Fuegians--Geological remarks--Canoes--Carving--Birds-- Fish--Shag Narrows--Glaciers--Avalanches--Natives-- Climate--Winter setting in--Adelaide loses a boat-- Floods--Lightning--Scurvy--Adelaide's survey--Bougainville Harbour--Indians cross the Strait, and visit Port Famine-- Sealing vessels sail--Scurvy increases--Adelaide sent for guanaco meat--Return of the Beagle--Captain Stokes very ill--Adelaide brings meat from the Patagonians--Death of Captain Stokes 133