([p]) Noticed previously by Captain Stokes.—R. F.
([q]) At the western entrance of the Strait the water is said to be generally a few degrees warmer than at the eastern.—R. F.
([r]) Por milagro (miraculously); as the inhabitants told me.—R. F.
([s]) I do not think that there is any opening at the bottom of Keats Sound; which lies at the base of a chain of snow-covered mountains, whose southern side I have closely traced.—R. F.
([t]) A kind of beech, found every where on these shores. The literal meaning of Roble, is oak.—R. F.
([u]) Native of Chilóe.—R. F.
([v]) When moderately laden they are stiff under sail; and are not such very bad sea-boats, if properly managed.—R. F.
([w]) Not since the first Spanish conquest, perhaps.—R. F.
([x]) I believe that the natives who have canoes of the kind described above, do not go near the Hermite Islands, on which Cape Horn is situated.—R. F.
([y]) For evidence that Indians have been thereabouts, see Byron's account of the cave entered by the surgeon of the Wager. I believe that curious place was either in, or close to, Port Otway.—R. F.