“Found an harbor… It can be easily recognised by the most perfect conical hill I ever saw; it quite beats the famous Sugar-loaf …of Rio de Janeiro harbor.”
December 21st 1834
“…I succeeded in reaching the summit (1600ft. high); it was… laborious…the ascent being so steep as to make it necessary to use the trees like a ladder (...Great thickets of Fushza [Fuchsia]). In these wild countries it gives much delight to reach the summit of any high hill;”
December 22nd 1834
Charles Darwin The Journal of a Voyage in H.M.S. Beagle
Further reading: Porter, D. 1999. Charles Darwin’s Chilean plant collections. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 72: 181-200
