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Ten days have passed since the pampero. When the strong back on Number Three hatch was repaired Captain West came back on the wind, hove to, and rode out the gale. Since then, in calm, and fog, and damp, and storm, we have won south until to- day we are almost abreast of the Falklands.
“Ah! if it depended only on me! if I were sure of the assent and the help of them all! “Then Hearne spoke roughly: “Captain,” said he, “it’s two months since we left the Falklands. Now, my companions were engaged for a voyage which was not to take them farther beyond the icebergs than Tsalal Island.” “That is not so,” exclaimed Captain Len Guy. “No! That is not so.
Then it struck me that the half-breed was perhaps about to respond to an inquiry which I had not yet made why he had gone to live at the Falklands under the name of Hunt after leaving Illinois? I put the question to him, and he replied, “It is not that; no, it is not that I wish ”
Von Spee knew that the Glasgow had gone to the Falklands and that there were important wireless stations there, but he put off going after those prizes and picked up others. The Nürnberg had cut communication between Banfield and Fanning Islands. Two British trading ships had fallen victims to the Dresden, and four more had met the same end at the hands of the Leipzig.
In the evening of the 3d the same person was found drunk, and consequently must have again stolen wine, and was convicted of having stolen both wine and victuals, for which he was now hanged, and his body thrown into the sea. VIII. p. 68, note 3, these Sebaldines have been already noticed as the north-westermost of the Falklands.
What a difference there was between him and most of the sailors recruited at the Falklands, and especially between him and Hearne, the sealing-master! They obeyed, no doubt, for such a master as James West gets himself obeyed, whether with good or ill will. But behind backs what complaints were made, what recriminations were exchanged I All this, I feared, was of evil presage for the future.
Subsequently, at the beginning of the 18th century, they were named the Malouines by fishermen from Saint-Malo in Brittany, then finally dubbed the Falklands by the English, to whom they belong today. In these waterways our nets brought up fine samples of algae, in particular certain fucus plants whose roots were laden with the world's best mussels.
These are the special features that differentiate Scandinavia from the Falklands, not to speak of the infinite number of birds which rose on my approach, grebe, cormorants, black-headed swans, and above all, tribes of penguins, of which hundreds of thousands are massacred every year.
Gratian came to take the helm, and Hearne was shut up in the hold. On the whole this was a just punishment, and none of the old crew protested against it, for Hearne’s inattention awkwardness had really endangered the schooner, for a short time only. Five or six of the Falklands sailors did, however, murmur a little. A sign from the mate silenced them, and they returned at once to their posts.
Falkland left little literary work behind him of any mark, yet of no other man of those times may it be said that so great a reputation for ability and character has been handed down to us. Novelists and authors delight in dwelling on his good qualities. Even in this jubilee year of 1897 the author of "Sir Kenelm Digby" has written a book about the Falklands.
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