The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-09

80 -sr- heRaa 80 .,h rapidly With ~
people Was enough "a make ME fed
| little apprehensive ! tired 20 maxi
COW er-ation. hut he Sould not say mucl
about the weather or the state 90 nj,
health and my Efforts we're far from sue
c'---fui Finally the chief arose anC
spoke
Yes he sad | know YOU were com
ing and | have been expecting You
cannot understand how yoi cuuh
possibly know ! was coming. ! returned
I had only lust been appointed when
l"ft HEADQUARTERS and came straight
down m the schooner which - anChor'i
IN the hay. and ! don't think any other
vessel could have come ahead 81 ~
His answe- was merely to repeat What
he bad said before. | thought I would
like To know how ne had become possessed
~ this bit 81 advances Information and
] alkei him how ON earth he had found
ont that I was coming
ny my big too. he answered ~olemnly
u has been itchinR all the morning. and
u always Itches when there - danger
about
Well. they did not burn me- out and
the chief and ! became great friends
Did ] have any narrow escarcs' some
hut they are not worth telling about
Travelling In the old days in th" nnlive
canoes was always very risky. They
were untitled for making a long sea Noy-
age or 20 cross a large body - water
II was impossible 20 ref down hug latcen
sail. and 10 prevent the Cut-iECer from
being lifted out 81 the water YOU had
constantly 20 pres men out upon IL.
Then the question was whether yCu had
sufficient men in the canoe propc- 10 pre-
vent be- being lifted out ~ the water
when the wind struck the Cthe- way
lc. I was fire. Iuently capsI1Ad. hut
ALWAYS happened to he near the shore.
and Gov AllardyCe changed tho subject
TO the Falkl lands
There il never anv summer there :
aaid Gov Allardyce. hut on tho other
hand the thermometer hardly ever goes
down to zero, hut what gets % YOU - The
cold wind with a low temperature Most
81 the people there are en- gaged either in
sheep raising or whaling The whole
country - a sheep farm and the holdin ~
range from 7nO an acres. running E0.OO
sheep. 10 small runs that carry only SOC
20 t.ND There are Sn0p sheep In the
Falklands In tho Falklands group are
some Atty or sixty islands the largest
being Past Falkland. which "a about
On 10y 80 miles, and West Falkland. which
IL ~ nv - miles
The y halinR industry - very remuner
alive The whalers are mostly Nor
weglans and they Ash around the Ealk
lands and South Georgia also gong as
far south a. the South Shstlands and the
South Orkneys. though IN the latter the
open season ~ so short that they dare no,
remain in thos" latItudea more than SIX
weeks or two months AZ the most There
are - great many whales caught about
the Falklands and there - one boiling
down factory on West Falkland In
South Geor gia there are seven - these
stations There are Ave different kinds
~ whales IN those waters Of them the
r. ght whale. or the Sord Kappa. 49, the
Nnrwegians call a. ~ worth from s. .Jsl
To sio,co. principally on account ~ tho
whalebone Then there - the blue " hale
which - the biggest ~ all. often running
10 ~ or i'o feet ma length The sperm
whale % course everybody knows Then
there IL the humphacked whale 80 called
from an enormous hump, and the SCI
whale. which ~ not so import ant
Nowadays ! restrict m" opsratI IONS ~
the whaleTS, issuing llc~nSs- IA no case
unless the licensees Use he "a hol" " hal"
would simply take the blUbb.r and th,.
whalebone and leave the carcass - dis
integraie This became offensive So
now they have 20 boil everything down pr
grind u up. and a. they are getting s35
to so a ton for the fertilizer they make
in th8 way what used TO be considered A.
garbage IN now worth a. much a. the oil
In this way they do not take 50 many
whales. because u takes great deal
longer to- dispose ~ one than y did by 'hs
old wAsteful process. IL makes the at
moSphere pleaSanter 10 I've in and the
whalers make just as much money
There are about .SOD NorwegIans on
gagged IN the whaling industry down
there. and they do their work upon the
communal principal. sharing m the profits
II right whale 10 caught every person
IN the steamship and the factory comes
IN for proportional" share 81 the pro-
Cceds One result 81 'hLs - that VI.
never have any labo- troubles among
the whalers and there - no demand for
an eight hour law The men simply
work AL night and all day when there Is
lot To DO
No. there are no trees on the FAX
lands The ISLANDS ar" simply wind
swept moorland W. have plenty Of
bowling gale hut We also have excellent
harbors and plenty Of them The sheep
are a cross breed kind called RomEsy
Marsh. which are able - resist thsGlimate
or course they have the shelter Of IN"
hills m "A VI md storm
We are sOmeW what out q the world
hu; steamers from EnglanG which call
~ South American ports touch a. our
port once month each way gong 10
and from tallao. ~ that this practically
gives us the mails twice u month No
there are no newspapers published ~
the islands The population during th"
busy season ~ between 4.U1 and S.,S
We started away from the ISLANDS on the
very last day OF last year. going fret
10 England and then go Australia, for
Mrs AliaTdyCs. il an Australian