The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe . easy navigation for about 360 sea miles through thechannels along the west coast of America. As the trade of the Pacific is continually increasing, and the Strait of Magel-la-n more frequented from year to year, we can not wonder that the old projectof settling a colony on its shores should have been revived in our days. About^ the year 1840 the Government of Chili established a penal colony atPunta Are-nas and Port Famine, Avhich miserably failed in consequence of a mutiny ; but
The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe . easy navigation for about 360 sea miles through thechannels along the west coast of America. As the trade of the Pacific is continually increasing, and the Strait of Magel-la-n more frequented from year to year, we can not wonder that the old projectof settling a colony on its shores should have been revived in our days. About^ the year 1840 the Government of Chili established a penal colony atPunta Are-nas and Port Famine, Avhich miserably failed in consequence of a mutiny ; but 1 416 THE POLAR WORLD. in 1853 about one liundrccl and fifty German emigrants were settled at PuntaArenas, and when the Xovara visited the strait in 1858, they were found in athriving condition. Sliould the j^roject of stationing steam-tugs in the strait,and of erecting liglitliouscs at Cape Virgins and at the entrance of Smyth Chan-nel be executed, the Magellans Mould become one of the high-roads of com-merce, and tlie dangers which proved so dreadful to the navigators of formerdays a mere tale of the i A HIGUWAY OF COMMERCE. k fc •it PATAGONIA AND THE PATAGONIANS. 417
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