Show ann n F 1 LifE IN TIIE FALKLAND ISLANDS 1 A Lon Lonesome om Population p Far For Irom from In tho the 2 Wild Wll South Sens Sena i NY U U U U U I Special elal Correspondence Eat East Falkland I OUT Or t P ID D JJ April to tl the court f fot I of ot the governor lornor K f 1 I 1 1 yacht cht was w placed at the theof I of ot our party whoM whole captain had hall in instruction to aid ua us In the Islands But that thaI would be he a 11 rather large IIII undertaking a ae there theu are aTI more moreth thin than th MM 1100 to in the group roup HO sn II we WP f I 1 gained a g Idea of ot life lite In III thin tide little world lost boat In a waste of or lonely waters by b cruising around the two Ir largest lt lalanda and end Visiting l their few tew which ai etc ull n near ar the coast the e total toad population pG of ot the archipelago I la II only about 0 molly rind and Argentine last Falkland J the urcIl of the Islands laraIA I has lUll i an n urea area of ml Ira yet t It U contains only three Insignificant b Port Stanley tho rest r ll of ot the people Ito le living on widely separated rth There are ore no roade rOI on In any of or the l Island but hut they thoy are In hI nil alt direction by b home Halle for here her everybody goes KOSH on honl buk on Journeys journey that cannot 1 I he mode made m by hy Ilea sea Every do owns his hll yacht a nil as the citizens of or other othar keep their carriages carriage There The In is II a steam et earn launch that regularly pile tho t e Bound between the two male main Inlands while th the NOt produce of ot tho Falkland nd bil 1111 Inland biland and Sheep harming Farming I company In Is pat patronized by b the poorer clauses Our objective point woe win Port St SI Sti i S Loule LouII a little north of on Berkeley where th the l 1 French tench founded the earliest settlement on the archipelago In lit 1708 1703 and which wink h though thou h many man times destroyed by born bom bombardment aa u I various countries enforced en fore forc forced ed ml then their claim to 10 to lc n 1 tho the neat MAt nf ot government until n 1 few fel year Ago RICO when It was removed to Stanley The bug big 11 Inland bland In Is neatly mgt cut In twp two by a n deep sound on ml either side Sill which I wives I Ina IB northern and Imd south southern ern portions connected hy lIy nn an l hardy hardly hard two mlle nilles The rile lower halt half haltof of ot the Island le 1 crossed by 11 n II range rana of lit low but rugged MJ Mile bill and the re remainder remainder IK is a 0 strange mixture of ot peat pills d and al tussock k graM ar pasture and anil swung swamp with many si shall Wall null streams and shallow tarns of fresh water Next to the most mOlt Important village on tho Inland gland Ig Is Port P rt It sta station than tion of at the tho I 1 eta Island Inland company It IH III 1 peopled I entirely II by Scotch cusp shep shepherds herds bards find 1111 such elicit a fl quaint little town can bo ho found round nowhere ol else ollie e outside of or Scotland with Its Presbyterian kirk appropriately m IY hullt bulb of at Item Iron to mutch Its Ita stern creel creed and UK Its blue Presby Presbyterian terian tarlan cl and school ina fleeter tr Who rill the lives liven ot of if the villagers to tn tho the detail and lIll NO Oil on Though more moi than SOO 00 distant from Irom that these theeo were once a It part of ot that country At any rate rale the geological formation und Horn fora of or the Ih two t are aro e er ee r tho the same prime though to the th Id hi n ands tula no animals are Indigenous hut but foxes mtH and rabbits r are lire only two things to he be wild sold In favor nf or the climate In this thin locality that It Ig is l uniform ally ball bail Had that the tho chilly winds wind which hinder frees from Irom growing and fruit and corn coin from attaining maturity prevent likewise the existence or of nu mAny hy living pests that abound nearer to 10 the Ih equator There are no do snakes Liars here nor of ot any 1111 sort no toads nor dar dera tiles lies nor 1101 liens Hea lIe l nor any nil other ob u creature whiffed or crawl crawling ing Tress lre ft would I probably r grow ImI It If planted and cultivated were It not lIot for lur the eternal salon gales rn r tiro rG are none upon any nil of or the Islands Inlands If It we the except n a kind of or box two to or three Hire f feet teet ot high highto hll hl li lito I Ito to bo ho 1 0 found In some Rome localities and the tho theon thoon on inn much boasted nipple apple tree Ire which IB is Struggling for lor in III Stanley There la Is u It of ot wooly which often grown ai RI hUh high AH as I n a mans munH shoulder and Ix Is said mild to aHl u sachet L the tho chilly winds wind Y In producing the bronchial and trouble with which most mOlt are afflicted The rho only worth wurth trying to cultivate ul an art found faun d long I n g the t he marlin margin of or the th sea In certain plains that are partially leal rhel leI hy by lithe hili II hut but nowhere now hue rut can groin grain tic be tully fully ripened or tie II vegetables brought to tn any nn degree of ot perfection I turing During November null and December a I great vane varie variety ty t of ot wild thinners literally carpet the th round ground and are everywhere A Afew l few tew years ago hii the whole was coverall with tussock ra H host curious vegetable production which looks a n little distance oft like Uko u l M u U U U U forest foreit of miniature palms It Is IE a gl gi gigantic gantic grass grace which grows In tufts often orten two or three hundred roots springing tWill Irom rein the Ihl same name stalks t six nix Ix or seven feet fert lung IonIC a and nil blades even longer Cattle und and horses are ure ox 0 t tofu fond of It 11 and UH Its fattening fit for tor all kinds of or stock RIO are vety WI great It 11 In every situation In III winter as aa In summer unit may Inu be berut rut cut three times lines n a 1 year yeul being unproved Improved by h each euch Not only mo all an the Ihl anti and stems items most excellent fodder r lint hut the stool 1 1 Ue roots have a 1 sweet nutty nult flavor navor Irresistible Ir to 10 all alt and herbivorous creatures creature It H thrives beat beet on III shores expound to the spray anti and a great pity pit It IH is that th t In 10 a n afew 1 few fel years yeara more not a toot root of it will wilt bu hu left leU anywhere on all the Islands Island No wonder It It is being rapidly exter exterminated initiated considering tho the enormous number of ot that flint here told pas The few tew rattle und pigs ph that were brought from froth tine to time by hy the early colonists have gone Ione on lin whether or ur not the tine are lire by the human until now they thoy are aie countless Pliers Thue are also allo nt at least leant one hundred thousand wild willI horses spinning from stocks originally Imported Yet let 1 ft she sheets raising ral Is IB tho the main Industry of the It ft laving having proved more moie profitable than the rearing of cat cut cattle cattle tle lie and though ninny many of or the tine IlI ore are too for tor sheep there urn are said to lit hi upwards of or of thorn them themon on Oil the Islands They rhey are art all of F Eu Iru European u breeds and the variety la is the favorite one deice averaging Vt li pounds a under favorable conditions cheer Theer ore lira no wild whit 1111 here to kill I Ithe the sheep und and the complete absence hence of I burr or lr any airy substance injurious to the In Is of course nn fill advantage n while the many ninny streams null unil small re resh hwa wn tr Ur lakes are aro of ot treat great Importance to the HIP IheI Ind cattle H HA A tow fow to years ago aHo the line Falkland 1 Island company adopted 11 n 1 process of or down whole carcasses Into Inlo tallow billow anti ami nm turn the successful result has hax ridded added another li Industry leaving the subject of ot Indigenous growths I want won I to u tell you n t the balsam ha a 1111 hog bog hoga boga a vegetable wonder won er which I 1 never heard lice rd of o In ht tinny any other othol part of ot tu Ih world Ap Approaching Approaching the Ih grounds In many of ot the Island you think they ate are all RII over with hugh gray gruy launders from rota live to III ton tom root feet across To 10 heighten the th Illusion the till blocks are covered with and nill glues grans IH IK seen lIeen R en growing In I n their crevices ea where here dust duet hu mite hila t collected 11 precisely as BI It II would In rifts of ot rocks Bach musa IH III a n single plant tile the which has inns been so 0 slow low In growing growling and mud the th condensation front from constant branch branchIng I a log Ing In so 10 great rent that It hB inns become al almost a most us ns hard as BR tho the rocks It resembles re so hard that It In Is to cut Ut a II from faun Its surface with a n sharp knife closely n a 1 lump bump of ot balsam bog and you will find dud It covered with tiny hexagonal mm kings like the callers of A n weathered pieces of ot coral These are an the circle of leaves until and leaf buds buda terminating u It multitude un of or stems which for rol centuries have none gone on inn grow InK hog WI in h extreme slowness s ever since sines tho thin now enor noua pI plant nt started out i t LIngl single shoot hunt front from a n tiny tinny sued seed When the tile sun HUH shines warm the tine plum plant gives give forth a 1 1111 aromatic odor ollor and tine the yi yellowish gum that exudes from front the top 1011 h is II prized by b tho thu as aa a ulner JArl LATELY Y Lefts Leas Hum forty lorty years year el ago ngo there was 1101 not n a 1 nettler ettler on un V st though It Is IH SO 50 miles mile long by lIy 26 3 wide and separated from Its Ile twin Is lB Island Island land only holy by hy n a narrow farrow Round It IH Is more intone hilly them than 1 any a nY of f the other uther Islands a e and UK its general In is n all as forlorn ns as can an well be he Imagined vait tracts of M somber moorland unrelieved by tree or shrub traversed by rocky ridges and limited d by hy a low const coast upon which surf rages with Ith continual violence Nothing can be he more diurnal than the view front from frontany any AllY hilltop black bog hog anti moorland far as M the eye ee ram can 1111 teach tench Intermixed by hy Innumerable pools of ut brown water A peculiar feature of the nellio geology gy II of ot tho tim country I Is that thul It abounds In streams not net of or water but bul of stones which appear to flow down the hillside Those rhoe queer streams stream are 11 often a 1 quarter of or a 1 t mile Aide Ide and anal the stones vary from arum site t lie to five Ive find cubs cube s As AI for Ken Hen rivers there are nl none Ilono of any con on on un tho lino islands Island The largest Is II Nan Han Carlo arlos on host Falkland J about 10 SO long lOll nail and nowhere l for tor so cold a n country thorn Is I a 1 great lira deal I of or peat leat which every evon everybody hOlly body 1101 burns th the year around for fuel II I Scone Romp of If the tine are of or great size 1111 end and depth net tin very rry v r dense t en and QI andUn l OUlI Un and the tho supply ly Is Inexhaustible N WW MI MM V l V IJ VV I ATTORNEY LATEST TASK r I jr t I I r y I r y J t 0 rr rrb I II Id b d arY I vv 1 t r ri CI J JJ r I J i I n d I Col Cot rt of ot the Western Lr on company U h Ud I Iman ht d t man fully tull aa as un us Se Jerome deroma tie rte la II 1 uel rt II hard worker and ami does doe not know the word rail fili Jerome may mar ma expert expect a 1 harrl hard tight liht It H Will be Greek Creek meet Greek Creek lor tor Col II try ry Is a mauler of ot J r J The Th settlers that tire absence nhA nce of ot 0 timber Is III nn nil advantage nil rather r than I tint nit objection the Ihl land requires no clearing except from the stones and tho the latter make ranks excellent fencing build buildIng lag Ing material MOST 1081 COLONY Tho most Interesting village of West Falkland In la fort 1011 Egmont where tho the colony eulon was 1181 founded loun ed In III Myron Byron had wrest wrested ed the Islands IHla fb from ruin Spain JIll Its solo tula defense and tind chief ornament Is II H a f large e timber blockhouse house which Willi sous us made inane In langland many years year ago alfo and brought out aliI In hi pieces piece and would ho bo of ot about art nIl much value ns III an eggshell mod orn ern Implements Implement of war Yar To lb pin an nu 11 old down don to an all evening It a yarn yarning ing III about his hili hairbreadth In whaling and ami 1111 1 sealing Is 18 one nine of the most mom Interesting experiences to be w nut 1111 t lit n this part of ot the tho world At one Into tho tine Island bland trade trudo In inn whole whale und and seal oil obi and seal skits skins awns WUA of ot great nut value hut but i ut ls le now utmost at lit an 1111 end fur G r those big hie sea lIeH hava about 11 Ito the thu of lit the Heal Beal eal Maters hunters pursue purllue their adventurous calling on mn much the tho same plan as aM nu mIll n nerA er erA ellI In III our own writ West used to go pros Iris prospecting hooting on grub grul rub take stake That If is they thy lure hire i 1 boat by Jy agreeing to pay PRY IU Its own OWl owner nailor er or n Il certain of ot what whal they the may mil bring back employ n B crew on the tilt name snore If fume nils one llIe of ot their number for fort 1 obtain t thell t tI provisions f Homo accommodating I dealer as tie did lid d dlee three f lee hoot bout and start off olun on on un a R three or nr four months expedition Whaling In these th IIO warns nl 11 IH Is now generally conducted by byNorth II byNorth North sun ana others nth Pra who winn have hal their r Ite on New laland island In the lire western I a aThe The Tho most t terrifying tooling looking beasts I over met In their natural state stale tall are nrc the wen sea lions Irons that abound along the Falk Falkland land coasts fellows large ua Ill young bullocks with long mushy bushy halt hair halton hairon on head and breast The lh face Is III short hurt und ruin like that of ot n IL bulldog but hunt Infinitely more mure savage n a C tough rough mane matu hangs thick around the tho ears and ami the mouth m IN firmed Ith two long lUllS crooked tooth lit ill either Jaw The ugly ugh creatures tall tail is e B divided Into two large lane each Inch Hipper having live five mile and Allt by bytho bytho bythe tho the nIt etc o these which he lie moved lillie A lIl ted by hy his hili two front flippers he along the rocks as n furl fast an nil ana asa a n mull man am con walk hut but not for fer Tong fang be being beIng ing tog noon winded by h Iris his own excessive fitness The blubber Is III spread dyer too the holo body six or 01 eight Inch itches thick and nil makes excellent letup lamp oil The I nIHIL Is III eaten by many and anal I can testify tes testify I to 10 the tact fact that the Ivor of ot a 1 young younK I sea ulna lion is a n 1 lit tit for tor nn an epicure e pl I Tho The Is II considerably smaller a titan the tine male tle and amt nil thought though quite I fierce In fn de lip defense t e etense tense t of ot her tier cuba been known to tear olT oft human leg I I arms when with Is III at Rt other tines times Ron In tie and timid That 1 haft on I 14 of ot seal eal known knowlI on as the tho trunk nose no Is II embed called by hy the the Hie and though of ot astonishing hulk bulk often n 30 SO feet long bang la is mi In Inoffensive sive Ive creature Us rte strong point like Ilk that of ot many finny man human beings belll IK Is Its atom ach lI hIt it cartilaginous hard hardas na nl hone bone resisting the edge Nt of or a II knife FANS IK II n WAHl |