RITTER DOMAIN on Charles Is- 

 land covered seven and a half 

 acres, of v/hich approximately 

 one-third was vigorously culti- 

 vated. Near the center of the 

 clearing was the ramshackle 

 home constructed of roughly 

 hewn timbers and roofed with 

 corrugated sheet metal, mostly 

 salvaged from an abandoned 

 Norwegian colony at Postoffice 

 Bay. The mild climate permitted 

 Ritter and Frau Dore to live in 

 comfort though their house was 

 open on the north. Frau Dore 

 is shown in front of the structure 

 v/ith a pet baby burro. 



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SINCE THE DEATH of Dr. Ritter 

 November 21, 1934, the Ritter 

 home has been dismantled by 

 other islanders and everything 

 useful taken away. Gardens 

 and groves, however, have 

 been carefully tended by suc- 

 cessors to the Ritters for they 

 comprise an important source 

 of food supply. 



FRAU DORE was found alone 

 and desolate in her tropical 

 home a few weeks after the 

 death of Dr. Ritter and pleaded 

 to be taken to the mainland 

 where she might transship to 

 Germany, her homeland. She 

 was taken aboard the Velero III 

 to Guayaquil. Upon her return 

 to Europe she completed and 

 later published her sad epic of 

 the Galapagos, "Satan Came 

 to Eden." 



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