One of a group of 15 watercolours made by Conrad Martens to illustrate Robert Fitzroy's 'Narrative of the Voyage of the Beagle' (1839). It depicts the 'Beagle' in the background anchored in the Beagle Channel of the Tierra del Fiego archipelago. In the foreground are five Fuegians in a canoe, in the shallows of the channel shoreline. It was engraved by Thomas Landseer as plate no.12 in the sequence of the second volume of Fitzroy's 'Narrative' (f. p. 326) with the title, 'Portrait Cove in Beagle Channel'. The name 'Portrait Cove' is a little mysterious since it only appears as a location inside the Beagle Channel in this pictorial context. It is not otherwise named in the voyage accounts. Related charts do place a Portait Cove further east outside the Channel, but not the spot this view shows: this is discussed at http://www.rockvillepress.com/TIERRA/TEXTS/CUTFINGER.HTM. See also 'Conrad Martens's "Beagle" Pictures', no.122, in R.D. Keynes (ed.), 'The Beagle Record...' (CUP, 1979), pp. 389-402. The view was taken on 1 March 1834 as a drawing (Keynes no.121) in Martens's fourth voyage sketchbook. For notes on Martens, see PAF6227.