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later. In January, Frederick swam round the point again, and 

 mounted the clifl'. He shot four pigs, ran the fat into buckets, 

 and threw the hams down to his brother on the beach below. 

 He saw the four last goats, but spared them, to increase their 

 number. In February a boat came to the west side from Tris- 

 tan, and its crew killed the four goats, and departed without 

 communicating with the Stoltenhoffs. 



The relations between the Tristan people and the brothers 

 do not appear to have been so cordial latterly as they w^ere at 

 first ; and the Stoltenhoffs believe that the object of their 

 neighbors in killing the goats, and in delaying from time to 

 time bringing them some live stock which they had promised 

 them, was to force them to leave the island. It may have 

 been so, for the Tristan men had been in the habit of making 

 a yearly sealing expedition to Inaccessible, and no doubt the 

 presence of the energetic strangers lessened their chance of 

 success. 



In March the brothers once more swam round the point and 

 ascended the cliff. After staying on the plateau together for 

 a few days, it was settled that Frederick should remain above 

 and lay in a stock of lard for the winter, Giistav returning to 

 the hut and storing it. When a pig was killed, the hide, with 

 the fat in it, was rolled up, secured with thongs of skin, and 

 thrown over the cliff, and Gustav then ran the lard into a cask. 



During their second w^inter the privations of the brothers do 

 not seem to have been great. They w^ere getting accustomed 

 to their mode of life, and they had always sufficient food, such 

 as it was. They were remarkably well educated : both could 

 speak and read English fluentl}-, and the elder had a good 

 knowledge of French. Their library consisted of eight vol- 

 umes : Schodler's " ISTatural History," a German atlas, " Charles 

 O'Malley," " Captain Morrell's Voyages," two old volumes of a 

 monthly magazine, " Hamlet " and "Coriolanus" with French 

 notes, and Schiller's Poems. These they unfortunately came 

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