CHAPTER XX

A WINTER TRIP TO SOUTH GEORGIA

We leave on Board the _Cachalote_: Severe Damage of Engines: Adrift on the High Seas: Exciting Situation: The Engines Repaired: Bad Night on the Coast: At Anchor again: Nature and Position of South Georgia: Climate: Flora and Fauna: Winter’s Unexpected Arrival: Along the Coast: Stormy Days: Whaling: A Singular 1st of May: With Escort to Buenos Aires: Return to Sweden Pp. 314-329

INDEX P. 330

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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Carl Skottsberg _Frontispiece_

Percy D. Quensel 4

Thore G. Halle 4

Typical Landscape in East Falkland with quartzite ridge 10

Mollymawk Rookery, West Point Island 16

Penguin Rookery (Eudyptes), West Point Island 16

The Great Stone-run South of Port Louis, East Falkland 28

The Roads of Punta Arenas, South-wester blowing 32

Punta Arenas from the hills 32

Back from the Betbeder Pass 38

Indians at the Dawson Mission Station 38

The Betbeder Valley 52

Mount Svea, with glacier and moraines 52

The Bottom of Ventisqueros Sound 68

The Entrance of Excelsior Sound 72

Our Interpreter, Channels of Patagonia 78

Two Channel Indians 78

Peel Inlet, with great glaciers 90

Indian Camp, Sarmiento Channel 94

Chilote House 106

The Plaza in Ancud, Chiloé 106

The Famous Corcovado 116

Valdivia 126

Harbour at Valparaiso 126

Robinson’s “Lookout,” with commemorative tablet 140

View from top of Masafuera showing canyons 144

Robinson’s Grotto 144

Puerto Montt 158

Ready to start 158

Small Patagonian Sheep Farm 176

Patagonian Rain-forest 194

Fenix River 214

Valley of Antiguos River looking South 214

The Belgrano Pass, with giant basalt pillars 226

West Arm of Lake Belgrano 226

German Colonists, Lake Belgrano 234

Breakfast Table on Christmas Day, Lake Belgrano 234

View of Pampas, near Lake Argentino 262

Dead Landscape, East of Leona River 262

The Bismarck Glacier, Lake Argentino 274

The Upsala Glacier, Lake Argentino (the biggest in Patagonia) 274

Icebergs and Canvas Boat, Lake Argentino 274

Last Hope Inlet 288

The “Neomylodon” Cave, Last Hope Inlet 292

The Beagle Channel, looking West 296

Ushuaia and Martial Mountains 304

Glacier in N.W. Arm of Beagle Channel 310

Panorama South-west side of Lake Acigami 312

“The Winter’s Bark,” Tierra del Fuego 312

The Norwegian Factory, South Georgia 316

A Meeting in South Georgia 316

Humpback Whale, upside down, South Georgia 324

Three Right Whales, South Georgia 324

MAPS

Map of South America _At end_

The Falkland Islands _Facing page_ 6

Otway and Skyring Waters ” ” 62