The only thing which reminded us of the gale outside was every now and then a puff from the mountains, which made the ship surge at her anchors.
DECEMBER 25, 1832.
Close by the cove, a pointed hill, called Kater's Peak, rises to the height of 1700 feet.

The surrounding islands all consist of conical masses of greenstone, associated sometimes with less regular hills of baked and altered clay-slate.

This part of Tierra del Fuego may be considered as the extremity of the submerged chain of mountains already alluded to.

The cove takes its name of "Wigwam" from some of the Fuegian habitations; but every bay in the neighbourhood might be so called with equal propriety.

The inhabitants, living chiefly upon shell-fish, are obliged constantly to change their place of residence; but they return at intervals to the same spots, as is evident from the piles of old shells, which must often amount to many tons in weight.