I also found a most curious snail, and spiders, beetles, snakes, scorpions ad libitum, and to conclude shot a Cavia weighing a cwt .-- On Friday we sail for the Rio Negro, and then will commence our real wild work.

I look forward with dread to the wet stormy regions of the south, but after so much pleasure I must put up with some sea-sickness and misery.
LETTER 4.

TO J.S.HENSLOW.

Monte Video, 24th November 1832.
We arrived here on the 24th of October, after our first cruise on the coast of Patagonia.

North of the Rio Negro we fell in with some little schooners employed in sealing: to save the loss of time in surveying the intricate mass of banks, Capt.