Many kinds of fine evergreen trees, and plants with a tropical character, here take the place of the gloomy beech of the southern shores.

In winter the climate is detestable, and in summer it is only a little better.

I should think there are few parts of the world, within the temperate regions, where so much rain falls.

The winds are very boisterous, and the sky almost always clouded: to have a week of fine weather is something wonderful.

It is even difficult to get a single glimpse of the Cordillera: during our first visit, once only the volcano of Osorno stood out in bold relief, and that was before sunrise; it was curious to watch, as the sun rose, the outline gradually fading away in the glare of the eastern sky.
The inhabitants, from their complexion and low stature, appear to have three-fourths of Indian blood in their veins.