(PLATE 41.

CONDOR (Sarcorhamphus gryphus).) Santa Cruz.
Expedition up the River.
Indians.
Immense Streams of basaltic lava.
Fragments not transported by the River.
Excavation of the valley.
Condor, habits of.
Cordillera.
Erratic boulders of great size.
Indian relics.
Return to the ship.
Falkland Islands.
Wild horses, cattle, rabbits.
Wolf-like fox.
Fire made of bones.
Manner of hunting wild cattle.
Geology.
Streams of stones.
Scenes of violence.
Penguin.
Geese.
Eggs of Doris.
Compound animals.
SANTA CRUZ, PATAGONIA, AND THE FALKLAND ISLANDS.
APRIL 13, 1834.
The "Beagle" anchored within the mouth of the Santa Cruz.

This river is situated about sixty miles south of Port St.Julian.
During the last voyage Captain Stokes proceeded thirty miles up it, but then, from the want of provisions, was obliged to return.
Excepting what was discovered at that time, scarcely anything was known about this large river.

Captain Fitz Roy now determined to follow its course as far as time would allow.

On the 18th three whale-boats started, carrying three weeks' provisions; and the party consisted of twenty-five souls--a force which would have been sufficient to have defied a host of Indians.