Category: Biographies
For California--Pernambuco--Straits of Magellan--Trading with Patagonians--Their treachery--Four men made prisoners by them--Three escape; the author detained, with promises of release on paying ransom--Indian village--The chief and his household--Eating, sleeping, and adventu...
A civilized meal--A happy evening--A survey of the island--Preparation of guano--Preparations against invasion by the giants--A proposal to attack them--Loyalty and revenge--Kil...
13. CHAPTER I.For California--Pernambuco--Straits of Magellan--Trading with Patagonians--Their treachery--Four men made prisoners by them--Three escape; the author detained, with promises of...
20. CHAPTER VIII.Retrograde march--A look-out ahead--New specimens of birds observed--To the right again--Large inducements to visit Holland--Apparent effect--Council--Other tribes of Indians--S...
16. CHAPTER IV.Corey Inlet--Another disappointment--A hunting frolic with an unpleasant termination--Moving of the camp--Aimless wanderings--Alarm--A marriage treaty and an unsuccessful suitor...
23. CHAPTER XI.Port Famine--St. Nicholas' Bay, and its inscriptions--Politeness of the Indians declined--Difficulty of navigating the straits--A post-bag in a bottle--An English steamer, and i...
14. CHAPTER II.Returning to the encampment, it remained to devise some new way of escape. Some four or five days' ride to the westward would bring us to Port Famine, on the straits, a penal se...
15. CHAPTER III.The reader left me just rising from a half-stupor into which a double disappointment had thrown me, feverish with the excitement of new purposes and resolutions. The first aim w...
22. CHAPTER X.A Christian ship-master--Cruise for whales, and for a California-bound vessel--An outlandish craft--An American vessel--Passage secured for California--Tempestuous passage throu...
18. CHAPTER VI.The chief's oratory--A case of sickness novelly treated--The captive commissioned as physician to the chief--Dr. Bourne's first and last patient--Murder--Cannibalism--Another as...
19. CHAPTER VII.A new torture--Bloody gossip--An explosion nearly fatal--Plea of insanity--Reconciliation--River Santa Cruz--Naval architecture--Original mode of ferrying--Accident--Ominous dem...
17. CHAPTER V.At our next halt we encamped in a deep, swampy valley. The weather was cold and stormy; rain, snow, sleet and hail, fell alternately, but did not accumulate on the earth to any...
24. CHAPTER XII.On my arrival at the mines, I found my brothers engaged in a company of twenty men, organized for the purpose of tunnelling a mountain ridge, and digging a raceway at its base,...
11. CHAPTER XI.Port Famine--St. Nicholas' Bay, and its inscriptions--Politeness of the Indians declined--Difficulty of navigating the straits--A post-bag in a bottle--An English steamer, and i...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Retrograde march--A look-out ahead--New specimens of birds observed--To the right again--Large inducements to visit Holland--Apparent effect--Council--Other tribes of Indians--S...
1. CHAPTER I.For California--Pernambuco--Straits of Magellan--Trading with Patagonians--Their treachery--Four men made prisoners by them--Three escape; the author detained, with promises of...
4. CHAPTER IV.Corey Inlet--Another disappointment--A hunting frolic with an unpleasant termination--Moving of the camp--Aimless wanderings--Alarm--A marriage treaty and an unsuccessful suitor...
10. CHAPTER X.A Christian ship-master--Cruise for whales, and for a California-bound vessel--An outlandish craft--An American vessel--Passage secured for California--Tempestuous passage throu...
6. CHAPTER VI.The chief's oratory--A case of sickness novelly treated--The captive commissioned as physician to the chief--Dr. Bourne's first and last patient--Murder--Cannibalism--Another as...
9. CHAPTER IX.A civilized meal--A happy evening--A survey of the island--Preparation of guano--Preparations against invasion by the giants--A proposal to attack them--Loyalty and revenge--Kil...
7. CHAPTER VII.A new torture--Bloody gossip--An explosion nearly fatal--Plea of insanity--Reconciliation--River Santa Cruz--Naval architecture--Original mode of ferrying--Accident--Ominous dem...
12. CHAPTER XII.2. CHAPTER II.A proposal to go to Port Famine negatived--"Holland"--Discovery of vessels in the straits--Double disappointment--A crisis--Survey of Patagonia--Scanty vegetation--Animals and b...
5. CHAPTER V.Inclement weather--State of my wardrobe--Attempts to deprive me of my clothes--Powwow and horse-killing--Hair-combing extraordinary--Remedy for rheumatism--Sickness--Turn barber...
3. CHAPTER III.