The former resembled the common barn-pigeon exactly, but are in fact gulls of beautiful and varied colors, mostly dove-color.

We caught many with fishing-lines baited with pork.
We also took in the same way many albatrosses.

The white ones are very large, and their down is equal to that of the swan.

At last Cape Horn and its swelling seas were left behind, and we reached Valparaiso in about sixty days from Rio.

We anchored in the open roadstead, and spent there about ten days, visiting all the usual places of interest, its foretop, main-top, mizzen-top, etc.
Halleck and Ord went up to Santiago, the capital of Chili, some sixty miles inland, but I did not go.