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A steamer trip through Beagle Channel or Smyth's Channel in winter is most interesting. The 

 snow-covered islands with narrow channels between are always presenting new views of surpassing 

 beauty, and although the fog may hang low for a time, one always has the hope that the next turn of 

 the channel will reveal sunshine ahead 



At liiTtrand Island which lies only fifty uulcs iiortli of fapi' 

 Horn, a few hundred sheep are raised yearly. The owner 

 transports the surplus animals in his schooner "Antarctica" to 

 Ushuaia, a small town in Tierra del Fuego, and his sailors are 

 shown here passing a cargo from the lighter to the hands on 

 board. The high price of wool and mutton makes the business 

 a profitable one at present 



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equal of the sooty shear- 

 waters. They scratched 

 and screamed and were ut- 

 terly unmanageable, abso- 

 lutely refusing to remain 

 in any position in the nest 

 where their heads would 

 show. After several birds 

 were tried, I finally took 

 one photograph with the 

 bird ramming her head far 

 up in a crack in the after 

 part of the nest. Alaskan 

 scenes were brought back 

 to memory here also when 

 I unexpectedly flushed a 

 large seed snipe from the 

 top of a rock-cTowned 

 ridge. The actions and 

 color of the bird were so 



