| Show tile cruise of the 11 pilots bride 11 tho cuilao on tho the vast tit of the Son southern thern ocean just jast millo mailo by cup cap tain taia faller Ioli or in a the tha pilot n lir lilo has baa boon been a most moat interesting ono A asa a matter of duct we believe that no whaler has bu ever beyor won tta its tit far south its 3 68 degroes before tile the challenger in her bar famous cruise wont went further south thin that having found laga iu ia tho the loo lea through which she aha could steam I 1 hat no BO hm has ever before I that almost unknown region leaving the south tid iu in september depte m bar capt fullor fuller ins his vessel do down wn to the lea packs nuil and there saw BW mountainous land liko like a coast line lina extending tot for miles and miles ono one of these mountains WAS pro beating banting it a magnificent spectacle at night tho the land trended treaded nearly northwest anti anil southeast Boat many ineffectual inea gotual attempts were mude made to roach reach the shore but bat all in voia vain the ica barrier proving imp 0 anti anil it was nas impossible to land Is n ua a putty patty on tho the loo lea and thus reach the tha boist owing to the he tremendous boa running at the kimoi caused by the almost constant gal ga lesof edof wind blowing in ia that most moet inhospitable part of the globe globa perhaps a landing on I 1 aba he antarctic continent might bo be niada made in december cambor De or when the weather is ia moro more moderate a but faller is 1 of opinion that such a lout feat Is in almost impossible p os sible as ft tho the coast Is in hemmed in the year round by an lea ice barrier against 0 it the sea breaks even la in moderate weather with tremendous force finding no dunce chance of getting to the tha luil land captain roller faller then skirted ilir teil dowa along the ico barrier to Sand which land some eight ei degrees further north this land la Is of vo loania origin and ot of no groat great extant A landing was made hero here and dionis seals were scoured but these amphibious amp hiblong animals havo have in a great extent oitt int been bean hunted away from this place seii sam were also found nt it this island and a good num her bar tilled killed for or their oil of 0 which valno valnie his blo commodity barrels were so oared cured from sandwich lud lind the pilots pilote bride baided bailed northward to via the circumcision islands two small islets no ono one was waa at Ker Iler gaelen gaelon when captain fuller visited place in january last but bot he found tua the houses left by the tha british Ger germaen maln and loan transit of yonus venus expeditions still standing and some of them in tolerable a tate of repair the houses are small codou ones and were wera put yap cp in 1876 1875 the th guideboard guide board left led liy by H M B S comus ye arago wits still stand ngin it a conspicuous point overlook lug oi th abo board aboard wile waff the bo announcement of the of f the bomus that he visited the island 0 in oriler order to pick up soy ship wrecked that might have lican been cast away but there wua was nothing bald about aawar h his having fondd any at on this there ure are millions of 0 pen gala gain eggs which go to waste every year but there is no guano owing to t the ho precipitous mature hoftke 0 abe mountains aad the quantity ol of rain and ubi snow that tails washing away the guano guaco into the sea from F rom Ker Kerg guele nelon a the bride arld 0 left for or table bay where she ahe is tow now laying ready for sea ea it being the ha dateo tion ticia ol of capt faller ln ller to make another 0 raise to the Rout laward of a similar character to that barb completed it I 1 is well to add to this brief account that forty pairs of rabbits and the twelve goats that were taken irom from capo cape town to la in 1875 havo have thrived won the island fairly swarming with rabbits while the goats number home some hundreds han dreda teal duck are found about the island in large flooks end and what with roast kid and duck and stowed stewed rabbit and plenty flenty ol of lier guele a cabbage capt fa fullers I 1 crew of atwon ty eight men mea had bad RD an agreeable change la ia their diet while at Kerg nelen new london telegram |
