The wilds of Patagonia; a narrative of the Swedish expedition to Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands in 1907-1909 . The Norwegian Factory, South SKOTTSHERG. LARSEN. ANDERSSON. A MKETINc; IN SoiTH GEORGIA. A WINTER TRIP TO SOUTH GEORGIA 317 where the Fridtjof Nansen struck some years ago andwent down like a stone, nine people losing their mere chance had saved us from sharing their wind was too stormy to permit of our beating upagainst it, and not until the next day did we see landagain. The points grew familiar to me, and in brightsunshine we passed
The wilds of Patagonia; a narrative of the Swedish expedition to Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands in 1907-1909 . The Norwegian Factory, South SKOTTSHERG. LARSEN. ANDERSSON. A MKETINc; IN SoiTH GEORGIA. A WINTER TRIP TO SOUTH GEORGIA 317 where the Fridtjof Nansen struck some years ago andwent down like a stone, nine people losing their mere chance had saved us from sharing their wind was too stormy to permit of our beating upagainst it, and not until the next day did we see landagain. The points grew familiar to me, and in brightsunshine we passed Mt. Duse and turned into the was seven years since—I remembered a virgin PotHarbour with luxuriant tussock-grass and roaring sea-elephants. There is the point where we found the bigpots and the old boat; a small observatory now standsthere. Now the harbour lies quite open to the strong smell of whale-oil mingles with the stink ofthe numerous carcasses on the shore where thousandsof screaming gulls and cape-pigeons have an ever-lasting feast. Some buildings are seen on the shoreat the foot of an abrupt mountain-wall; they are halfhidden by boats, co
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