In this one day we effected what had cost us five and a half hard days' labour in ascending.

On the 8th we reached the "Beagle" after our twenty-one days' expedition.

Every one, excepting myself, had cause to be dissatisfied; but to me the ascent afforded a most interesting section of the great tertiary formation of Patagonia.
On March 1st, 1833, and again on March 16th, 1834, the "Beagle" anchored in Berkeley Sound, in East Falkland Island.

This archipelago is situated in nearly the same latitude with the mouth of the Strait of Magellan; it covers a space of one hundred and twenty by sixty geographical miles, and is a little more than half the size of Ireland.

After the possession of these miserable islands had been contested by France, Spain, and England, they were left uninhabited.