The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-02-04

pie passably comfortable. The most CON
spicuous building in Stanley is very odd
one of cut hrownstone, with a tall clock
tower in the center and wings on each side
of it, one wing doing duty as church the
other as a schoolhouse. The handsomest
private residence-a square, two storied
brick one-belongs to the director of the
Falkland Islands Sheep-Farming Com
pany, the corporation which has given
to the archipelago all the Importance it
possesses. The Company big ware
houses. wherein are stored the Island
farmers wool. tallow and sheep skins.
are grouped along the jetties and form a
village by themselves
Besides several public piers and private
.ietties there is a government pier fronting
the dock yards. whose location may be
known by the hosting of the British flag
guard house, workshops, etc. within the
same enclosure; and behind the dock yard
is an immense reservoir for supplying
fresh water to the shipping. The bar
racks. occupied by a company of ma
lineS is Il rather imposing structure near
the centre OF the town The English Gov
stone: and both the barracks and the Gov
ernor $ casa are defended by several nine
FOUNDERS. The only good road the colony
can boast, in fact the one road worth
mentioning in all the islands, since the
farmers prefer to travel on horse back or
by sea-is that running parallel with the
and is known as Gross Road" 1t is
barely two miles long, bounded at one
end by the government house and at the
other by the cemetery. it is the colo
nists 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 promenad-
erS, for at high tide the spray sometimes
~ W.
Avenue, the Regent Street. the Champs
Ulysses OF the FalklandS. and on bright
afternoons all the Equality of this little
world may he seen walking briskly up and
down the long, dull street Here nobody
slowly sauntcrs. as pleasure seekers do in
the fashionable resorts of other countries.
for the weather is always So chilly that
active exercise is ntccSSarN
The decidedly English expression of
Stanley becomes intensified more and
more on closer acquaintance Take the
shop signs for example. Here is one that
reads. ''MilinelN 4 Haber'lashery Store.
to IL. Il. H. the Prince OF Wales.'' An
other enormous sign-hoard informs pass
ers-by in large letters that within is a
store, 1t being evidently taken for
granted that everybody understands the
word I" mean a depot for all manner of
commodities, from hams to hair switches.
iewclry and cabbages, drugs and dress
goods molasscs hardware. etcetera.
Among several inns Of the good old Eng
lish stylc-bal- maids and al--are the
STANLEY Arms. the ''ltcd 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 a
.ctty stands brick and stone monument
with tablet upon it, bearing only the
mysterious legend 'Alfre,. oath Feb.
1874. Al least it appeared mysterious
to u.s. and excited our curiosity to the
highest pitch. for we naturally supposed
II to mark the grave OF some hero who
! fell in one Of the many battles that have
taken place when foreign powers were
contendin@ for possession of the islands
OF was it really in memory of Alfred the
Create The mystery remained unsolved
until we reached the hotel and asked the
landlords and what was our Yankee dis
gust, when that worthy individual of mis-
placed h $, explained, with solemn air be-
lifting the occasion, that Prince III Alfred.
a real live scion of English royalty had
once planted his Ii august foot, land prob
ably both his feet). somewhere near that
very spot, on the occasion Of his visit in
1874
And now for a bit of history. .Joh1
Davis, who sailed with Cavendish on his
second voyage, but soon separated from
him, discovered this archipelago in the
year 1892. Six years later, Sebald de
Vert, a Dutchman, happened to sail this
way and bestowed his own musical COG
nomen upon the islands; and to this da,
they are marked on Dutch charts as Sc
bald Islands. In 1890 Captain Strong
sailed between the two largest islands anC
named the passage ''Falkland sound IL
honor of Niscount Falkland: and from
that circumstance the group took the
name it now bears. In 1863 the Frencl
took possession of the islands and NAMED
them isles Malollines.' The following
years Mons. de Bougainville established :
colony of his conntrymen on Berkle,
Sound, a little north of Port Stanley. at {
place which he named st. Louis; and +,
this day all French maps call the archi-
DelaUo Isles MalouiniS Rut hardly, xa,,