([z]) Could 'Plasta' refer to Alexander Campbell?—R. F.
([a]) Pedro Osorio died at San Carlos in 1832.—R. F.
([b]) Or by an earthquake wave.—R. F.
([c]) During much of this cruise, Lieutenant Skyring was so ill that he was unable to leave the Adelaide; and for a month he was confined to bed. His illness was caused by fatigue, and by sitting too long while constructing charts.—R. F.
([d]) Mr. Kirke was rather short-sighted, and therefore unable to discern distant objects clearly. From the natives of Ponsonby land, between the Otway and Skyring Waters, I procured, and gave to Captain King, some short straight horns, and parts of the skins of animals, which were probably deer of the kind seen by Mr. Kirke, and, since that time, by Mr. Low, when he followed my track into the Skyring Water with his sealing vessel, the Unicorn schooner.—R. F.
([e]) In Otway Bay, not far from Landfall Island, is a rock on which Mr. Low found Fuegians living among a number of (apparently) tame seals. See second volume.—R. F.
([f]) And thence to the Strait of Le Maire.—R. F.
([g]) See second volume for further remarks on this subject.—R. F.
([h]) Mr. Sorrell, formerly with Mr. Weddell, and since that time with Mr. Brisbane.—R. F.
([k]) Five fathoms only were found in one spot during the Beagle's last voyage.—R. F.