20 SPORTING ADVENTURES IN THE PACIFIC. 



now an Admiralty order forbids parties of less 

 than three from going out shooting together. 



On the 16th of November we sailed from Port 

 Stanley for Valparaiso, and the following day 

 touched at Keppel Island, where there is a 

 mission station for instructing the natives of 

 Terra del Fuego. The head-quarters of the 

 mission are established at a wild spot on the 

 southern shores of Terra del Fuego. This 

 branch is under the charge of Mr. Bartlett, in 

 whose hands it seems to do well. Whilst 

 getting in supplies of potatoes, &c., I took 

 my gun and started off for a lake some miles 

 inland, in hopes of getting a shot at a wild 

 swan ; a Fuegian leading a horse to carry game 

 accompanied me. On my way to the lake I shot 

 several brace of geese and some snipe and 

 rabbits ; no swans were to be seen, and I re- 

 turned on board, after an absence of four hours, 

 with twenty geese, fifteen snipe, eight ducks, 

 and three rabbits. Putting to sea the same night 

 we steamed clear of the land, which at daylight 

 the next morning was no longer in sight. 



