monumentum reliquit.
Tertio et excelso Carolo regnante potente
Regali jussu facta fuere suo.
Colocatum fuit nono Kalendæ Februarii Anno MDCCLXXXIX.
together with a list of the officers of both vessels, and enclosing a memorial of Cordova's former voyage in the Santa Maria de la Cabeza. The originals are placed in the British Museum; but before we finally left the Strait, copies were made on vellum, and deposited on the same spot.
The Beagle left Port Gallant[[60]] with a fair wind, which carried her to Swallow Harbour.
The next stopping place was Marian's Cove, a very snug anchorage on the north shore, a few miles beyond Playa Parda. Proceeding thence to the westward, with the wind 'in their teeth,' and such bad weather, that they could only see the land of either coast at intervals, and failing in an attempt to find anchorage under Cape Upright, the Beagle was kept under weigh during a squally dark night.
In that very place, Commodore Byron, with the Dolphin and Tamar, passed the anxious night, which he thus describes:—
"Our situation was now very alarming; the storm increased every minute, the weather was extremely thick, and the rain seemed to threaten another deluge; we had a long dark night before us, we were in a narrow channel, and surrounded on
every side by rocks and breakers."[[61]] The Beagle was under similar circumstances, but the land being known to be high and bold, her danger was not considered so imminent.