Note 125 — Chapter XIX · BAHIA BLANCA AND PATAGONIA

Darwin remarks of the remains of the Spanish settlement, that "the style in which they were commenced shows the strong and liberal hand of Spain in the old time.... Port Famine expresses by its name the lingering and extreme sufferings of several hundred wretched people, of whom one alone survived to relate their misfortunes" ("Voyage of the Beagle," chap. viii.). [125]