[3]. We were subsequently interested to learn from a private diary kept on board The Challenger that they had also taken their boat over into this water; they had, however, neither explored it nor marked it on the map.
[4]. Cape Pillar is the name which has been given to Magellan’s “Cape Deseado” since the days of Sir John Narborough; it has two peaks, of which the western one is like a pillar. The point which on the chart is named Deseado lies two miles to the south-west and could not possibly have been seen by Magellan: see Early Spanish Voyages and the Straits of Magellan, edited by Sir C. Markham, Hakluyt Series II. vol. xxviii.
[5]. “The Indians had taught their dogs to drive the fish into a corner of some pond or lake, from whence they were easily taken out by the skill and address of these savages.”—Narrative of Hon. J. Byron, ed. 1768, p. 56.
[6]. “We were well clothed, and though sitting close to the fire were far from too warm; yet these naked savages (Fuegians), though further off, were observed, to our great surprise, to be streaming with perspiration.”—Voyage of H.M.S. “Beagle” (Darwin), ed. 1870, p. 220.
[7]. Philesia buxifolia and Luzuriaga erecta.
[8]. “Among the birds we generally shot was a bird much larger than a goose, which we called the Racehorse, from the velocity with which it moved upon the surface of the water in a sort of half-flying, half-running motion.”—The Narrative of the Hon. John Byron, ed. 1768, p. 50.
[9]. Some of the Chileans with British names are said to be descended from the officers and men under command of Lord Cochrane.
[10]. See Anson’s Voyage Round the World, quarto ed., 1748, p. 102.
[11]. Captain Benson and his crew made the voyage in the ship’s boat to Mangareva in sixteen days, and after two days there left in the same manner for Tahiti, accomplishing the further nine hundred miles in eleven days. Mr. Richards, the British Consul at the latter place, told us later of his astonishment, when, in answer to his question whence the crew had come, he received the amazing reply, “Easter Island.” For the whole account see Captain Benson’s Own Story (The James H. Barry Co., San Francisco).
[12]. “I will only add this one word about the curious way in which they get fresh water on some of the coral islands, such as Nangone, where there is none on the surface. Two go out together to sea, and dive down at some spot where they know there is a fresh-water spring, and they alternately stand on one another’s backs to keep down the one that is drinking at the bottom before the pure water mixes with the surrounding salt water.”—“Notes on the Maoris and Melanesians,” Bishop of Wellington: The Journal of the Ethnological Society, New Series, vol. i, session 1868–9.