CHAPTER XV.

Extracts from the Journals of Lieutenants Skyring and Graves--Magdalen Channel--Keats Sound--Mount Sarmiento-- Barrow Head--Cockburn Channel--Prevalence of south-west winds--Melville Sound--Ascent of Mount Skyring--Memorial-- Cockburn and Barbara Channels--Mass of Islets and Rocks-- Hewett Bay--Cypress trees useful--Adelaide rejoins Beagle in Port Gallant--Captain King's narrative resumed--Plan of future proceedings--Adelaide arrives at Chilóe--Abstract of Lieutenant Skyring's account of her proceedings--Smyth Channel--Mount Burney--'Ancon sin Salida'--Natives--Kirke Narrow--Guia Narrow--Peculiar tides--Indians in plank Canoes--Passage to Chilóe 251