By the evening of the 7th we were on board the "Beagle" after an absence of twenty days, during which time we had gone three hundred miles in the open boats.

On the 11th Captain Fitz Roy paid a visit by himself to the Fuegians and found them going on well; and that they had lost very few more things.
On the last day of February in the succeeding year (1834) the "Beagle" anchored in a beautiful little cove at the eastern entrance of the Beagle Channel.

Captain Fitz Roy determined on the bold, and as it proved successful, attempt to beat against the westerly winds by the same route which we had followed in the boats to the settlement at Woollya.

We did not see many natives until we were near Ponsonby Sound, where we were followed by ten or twelve canoes.

The natives did not at all understand the reason of our tacking, and, instead of meeting us at each tack, vainly strove to follow us in our zigzag course.