Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-01-30

archipelago all the importance 1t possesses.
The company's big ware houses, wherein are
stored the island farmers wool, tallow and
sheepskins. are grouped along the jesties and
form a village by themselves
ONLY ONE GOOD ROAD.
Besides several public piers and private JET
ties there is a government pier fronting the
dock yards, whose location may be known by
the hosting of the British flag on the arrival
of a ship and also by its guard house. work
shops. &C., within the same inclosure; and be-
hind the dock yard is an immense reservoir for
supplying fresh water to the shipping. The
barracks, occupied by company Of marines
is a rather imposing structure near the center
of the town. The English governor occupies q
distant cottage Of gray stone, and both the bar
racks and the governors casa are defended by
several nine Uunders. The only good road
the colony can boats-in fact, the one road
worth mentioning on all the islands. since the
farmers prefer to travel on horseback or by
seas that running parallel with this har-
Dor in from. Of tho first row Of houses, and
is known as Ross road" 1t is barely two
miles long, bounded at one end by the govern
ment house and at the other by the cemetery,
but il is the colonists fashionable promenade,
their only one, except when at rare intervals.
the weather is mild enough to permit a stroll
upon the breezy hilltop. Even the Ross road
is not always available to promenaders, for at
high tide the spray sometimes dashes over It;
nevertheless it is the 5th avenue, the Regent
street, the Champs Ulysses Of the Falklands
and on bright afternoons all the quality" Of
this little world may be seen walking briskly
up and down the long. dull street. Here no
5ody slowly saunters, as pleasure seekers do in
the fashionable resorts Of other countries, for
the weather is always SO chilly that active exer-
else is necessary.
EVERYTHING IS ENaLrsH.
The decidedly English expression Of Stanley
acquaintance. Take the shop signs for sx-
ample. Here is one that reads: millinery,
Drapery and Haberdashery Store TO H. r. H.,
the Prince Of Wales" Another enormous
signboard informs passers-by in large letters
that within is "store," it being evidently
taken for granted that everybody understands
the word to mean depot for all manner OF
elry and cabbages. drugs and dress goods, mo-
lasses, hardware, &c. Among several inns Of
the good old English style-barmaids and all
are the Stanley Arms" the "Red Bull" the
Globe Tavern" and the Rose Hotel" One
of the most pronounced evidences of British
LOYALTY Is encountered the moment one steps
on shore, where, at the end of the jetty, stands
a brick and stone monument with tablet upon
1t bearing only the mysterious legend. Alfred,
February "a. 1874" At least 1t appeared
mysterious to us and excited our curiosity to
the highest pitch, for we naturally supposed it
of the many battles that have taken place when
foreign powers were contending for posses
sion Of the islands. or was it really in memory
of Alfred the Great? The mystery remained
unsolved until we reached the hotel and asked
the landlord; and what was our Yankee disgust
when that worthy individual Of misplaced his
explained, with solemn air BETTING the occa-
sion. that Prince H Alfred, a real live scion Of
English royalty. had once planted his h'august
foot land probably both his feet) somewhere
near that very spot on the occasion Of his visit
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HISTORY OF THE ISLANDS.
And now for a bit Of history. John Davis,
who sailed with Cavendish on his second voy-
age, but soon separated from him, discovered
this archipelago in the year 1892 Six wears
later. Sebald de Vert a Dutchman, happened
to sail this way, and bestowed his own musical
cognoman upon the islands; and to this day
they are marked on Dutch charts as 'Sebsld
Islands In 1880 Capt. Strong sailed between
the two largest islands, and named the passage
Falkland sound. in honor of Viscount Falk-
land; and from that circumstance the group
took the name it now bears. In 1853 the French
took possession of the islands and named them
isles Malouines." The following year Mons
de Bougainville established q colony Of his
countrymen on Berkeley sound, q little north of
Port Stanley. at a place which he named st.
Louis and to this day all French maps call the
archipelago Isles Malouinis. But hardly were
the French colonists settled in their new homes
when England claimed the group on the ground
OF prior discovery, and sent out Commodore