Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-06-11
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most obIging friend, the English goy-
| crnor Of the Falklands, gave ue Gee use
! of hl3 yacht another week, tha.
] we might make "a piO1s pilgrimage no
! me place whore the hrs. Protestant
! missionaries Who came tu this part ot
| the new world died q Crual and imger-
! iug death ot starvation IN De- away
| down in The nelghbofhOod of Cape
| Horn, on one of the hundreds NJ uu-
named Islands chat fairly crowd these
| stormy waters. at point appropriately
! called starvation HoHch' Probably
you have heard OF Captain Allen Got-
| diner 70 gallant officer OF the British
| navy who gave his best yenrs, his
! fortune, ana finally his me-, iu fruitless
! Cnlc8NOrs To Improve the social and
! moral condition oil ne ahOrigines OF
! these parts Bolng "a aeal0usly religious
| man, he conceived the idea that he was
! called upon 10 20 about the world
preaching the gospel to every creu.
! lure ana rescuing hcathen brands
| from the burning, I'm pursuance of this
notion, he circumuavigated thc globe
| four times lie visited the Zuus IN
southern Africa, the canulbals OF far
| Islands and the dercest tribes OF other
! remote places AZ one time, with
! single companion. he spent year in
the deserts of Patagonia, at another,
bent on the same errand, he took his
Family 20 reside in the Falkland u.s.
lands which were then uncolonlzed
except az u convict station and later
| devoted himself 10 the TERRA del Tue-
! goans. yainly attempting 10 establish
friendly relations with them His frat
station I'm the lnhospitablc archipelago
was ON Picton island; but the unappre-
CIalive sayages whose welfare he had
80 much at heart plundered him of
everything and he was compelled %
ilee TO save his life Returning to
England, with pious srdur undated,
though he had spent AN his own for
tune without apparently accomplishing
a particle Of good he went about the
country lecturng 90 obtain money
enough To make another which
resulted in HIS death The ninth and
last time he left England ON mission
nry work, he brought six companions
10 1ierr1 del FuegO, an of whom were
MS heather cra2ed a8 himself They
were Or. Richard Williams a London
surgeon, who gave up a good practise
! 10 follow hls religious convictions. MIR.
| John Maldmont a preacher of Liver
| pool; Joseph ErWn, a mechanic and
| three Cornish boatmon. Establishing
themselves az the place now called
STARVATION BEACH"
they experienced o. series Of misfor-
| tunes which soon reduced them t0 oat-
Ing mice, docayod ASH and sta-weed to
! sustain lie. Meanwhile the London
/ mission. under whose auspices they
| came, paid no attention 10 their neces-
stiles and failed Ia send the promised
| supplies After year of horrible sue
| ferlng. during which the little party
| displayed Il degree, of herosm worthy
1 the martyrs of old they died one by
| one from slow starvation. Curi0usly
enough after ali thcpe years the scene
| of the tragedy ~ frequently visited by
! representatives Of the sann society that
| allowed its hrst missionaries to starye
| now comfortably established lu tho
| Falklands, and their schooner IN which
the trips are made Is named the Allen
| Gardiner Every hour OF our Journey
| thereto was delightful. in spite of snow
| squalls, sudden gales and frosty
| weather. Slowly threading the narrow
| channels that wind I'm every direction
! between lnnumcrahle islands most OF
| them unknown bits of volcanic soil,
| not marked on any map or chart 1.-THE
| scene was aWc-inspirinu and vet so
| peaceful that Il was difficult 10 realize
| that we were only a few miles re-
| moved from that dreadful waste Of wa
ter where two mighty oceans rush CO...
gether In ceaseless conflict This por-
ton Of TERRA del Fuego IS wholly UNI
known TO the world at large and UNI
visited except by a few vonturesome
sCalers who cOnnne their operations 20
the edges of the outer Islands,
Here are bits Of scenery com
pared 10 which the Thousand
Islands Of the ST. Lawrence dwindle
| TO inRignlllCBnCe Huge proCiplCcs