The Republican journal., 1904-05-19
1Hf FALKLAND ISLANDS.
,,,o7 governments have Claimed them but
NaN' ,,,d IS now in Possession. Mainly
.-arrqted by "Younger Sons who are
.,,,-Farning on Large Scale.

4f [
r.-- STANLEY, EAST FALKLAND,
.,r 1901. \ few generations age
stands were more talked about
., rerlaps any other portion of the
.-t. surface But since the Dutch,
--,. spanish. South American and
...,.f states governments have, one
,.- resigned all claim to them and
lat Britain now holds them in peace
aossession, the world has so far
.-a-ltn the subject that today many
i,e we'll posted persons would be
La 10 tell you at moments no.
5. Which side of the globe the arch
a-1 5 located.
Fdlkand group, which includes
tan two hundred islands, lies
'lree hundred miles due east
r4r Atlantic entrance to the
.- ot Magellan; but in order to
,!em from the Straits or from
.f. Horn way, one must voyage a
I'll miles farther around the
.-.frl extremity of the outer is
.rc1lISe the one place of conSe-
II. the archipelago and the seat
.rsal government is Port Stanley
EASTERN shore of the central is
There are two large islands,
respectively East Falkland and
Hrs. alkland-the former ninety
.-~ ,ug by forty broad, and the lat
e. .oT- eighty by twenty eight miles.
., dIe separated from one another
III. -3lud. also named Falkland, which
Hes width from three to eighteen
% The other islands are of all
nom sixteen miles long by eight
--. miles wide, to mere dots in the
-. The entire group is remarkable
-a rs innumerable bays, harbors and
.r's East Falkland, for example, is
deeply indented by sound on each
.r as 10 almost make two islands of
tHe intervening isthmus being less
..a iWo miles across. So low and bar
=. ale the Falklands, resembling in
old Oceans gray and melan-
tur Waste,' that they are not WISH
d a little distance. Approached
. the southwest, the first to be seen
vm are the snowy tops of range
$ the highest in the archipelago,
.o.-h scarcely attaining to thousand
---. lat cross the largest island. Run
[ lOSe to shore we see no trees nor
1> not even Notwithstanding
H nay sand and brownish grass; and
--- sharp, cutting, constant land
like that experienced in the
on clustering March days, only
-rly colder and more goose-pimp
aud Wrinkle-producing Passengers
nave been III these parts before
TO telling one another amazing
about the Falkland winds, most
7tl may be taken with grains of
.. nee. y tall Briton. determined
. ~ be outdone, asserts that he has
lily seen sheep, whole droves of
picked up bodily by a gentle
-.ud zephyr and transported to an
sland: and hints that he refrainS
telling more marvellous truths be-
u the looks Of incredulity which
seems upon our faces. Another
4nder resents with indignation
'ody's statement regarding the
.ltIuess Of the islands, and boastful
-gares that there is tree in Stan
lie only one in the archipelago,
AN apple tree at that, which last
lore i've apples nearly as large as
". nuts.
tnley Harbor is one of the most
.-Yetely 'land-locked" in the world,
an opening hardly six hundred
Ter across. To get into it you must
'ad Cape Penbroke-a fiat, arid pen
la, whose outlying sandbars have
licked many good vessel, notwith-
s.udng its lofty lighthouse; steer past
A0it Rock, against which a furious
1t dashes fifty feet in the air; and
inverse a long, narrow bay filled with
i..y grass-covered islands. Suddenly
.. -urn to the left between two sharp
GLANDS and steam through straight
a4d narrow ford into Stanley harbor,
"lcll is three or four miles long by
3t a mile wide and extremely deep.
far the view is not prepossessing.
trace of verdure is in sight, and the
eam land, heaped with drift-sand,
7nks ifeless as the desert of Peru. In
llt foreground are several ships stuck
last on the sandbars, dismantled and
slowly decaying. Two OF three English
and German vessels are taking on wool,
.5lt0W and sheep-skins, the cargoes be-
Ag brought alongside in huge, old-fash
3Led freight-hulks. Craft of various
sorts at anchor in the harbor show
irnch. Argentine and CHILEAN flags;
'aL search as you may, no Stars and
stripes can be seen, for Uncle Samuel's
ttuer is almost unknown in this To-
tiity. A few tenders are fussing
about and the little brig owned by the
sleep farmers of the various islands
and used by them to bring their pro-
lIrt r0 Stanlay ubpnoo II ic cbinno6