FIRST PASSING THROUGH HELLGATE 



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How we managed to get her off it is impossible to describe ; 

 we did it somehow. The next morning was still windy, but we 

 steamed along the Canal de los Tempanos under Mount Buenos 



GLACIER DE LOS TEMPANOS 



Aires, and there it was that a fire broke out on the launch. This 

 was an accident we always dreaded, for, having no room elsewhere, 

 we were obliged to pile the fuel round her engine, with the result 

 that it occasionally became dangerously heated. 



Landing at the end of the Canal de los Tempanos we found 

 ourselves in forests of magnificent timber. The vegetation was 

 rank and luxuriant, a mass of decay under a forest of life. From 

 the swampy dank ground tall stems sprang up straight and branch- 

 less as palms, while at their feet grew a carpet of ferns. 



We had some marvellous days of fine weather in the Cordillera, 

 where on the mountain slopes, as winter drew on, the crimson 

 shades crept deeper to mingle with and finally change the green. 

 In due time we reached the South Fjord by water. The account 

 of a previous visit on horseback has already been told. Then we 

 turned homewards, and on the way I secured some good photos 



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