108 HAPPY HUNTING-GROUNDS 



his faithful portraits of his beloved adopted home have 

 been exhibited on the walls of the Royal Academy, 

 and twenty of his pictures have been reproduced by 

 Messrs. Carl Hentschell & Co. in the Book of Sark, 

 published in 1908, with text by Mr. John Oxenham, 

 and chapters on Geology and Botany by Professor 

 Benney and Mr. Marquand. He spares no pains 

 to be accurate in the smallest detail. There are 

 few parts of the beautiful scenery which he has not 

 studied and faithfully delineated either in oil or 

 water-colour. 



It seems strange that in an island indented with 

 so many bays and creeks there should be only three 

 places where boats can shelter. In nothing is Sark 

 more unique than in the character of its harbours. 

 Creux Harbour, where steamboats and yachts land 

 passengers at the little pier, is backed by a great 

 wall of cliff apparently impenetrable ; and there is 

 a malicious and doubtless untrue story that the 

 Admiralty yacht with the First Lord on board, once 

 came to visit the island in state, but failing to detect 

 the tunnel behind the pier, sailed away, reporting 

 that there was no entrance. Probably the story is 

 by our old friend, Ben Trovato ; but there is a 

 peculiar charm in one's first introduction through 



" the dark deep sea-gate that makes way 

 Through channelled darkness for the darkling day. 

 Hardly to let men's faltering footfall win 

 The sunless passage in, 



Where breaks a world aflower against the sun ; 

 A small sweet world of wave-encompassed wonder." 



On the opposite side, near the small island of 

 Brechou, is the little fishing harbour of Havre 



