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affording excellent pasturage. After Penekese 

 fell from its high estate of being a place for 

 raising scientists, they put it to the next best 

 use and went to raising sheep, of which about 

 two hundred are scattered all over the island. 

 The keeper says this number is too large, and 

 that, to realize all the latent possibilities of a 

 sheep, there ought to be only one to the acre. 



Next to the dignity of owning and handling 

 a sail-boat yourself, is the lordliness of being 

 the sole passenger and manager ex-officio. The 

 direct run to Penekese was fourteen miles ; but 

 it was so prolonged by head-winds, and finally 

 by no wind at all, that I did not reach land 

 until about the middle of the afternoon, and 

 after a long risk of being stranded in the har- 

 bor, through the skipper's ignorance of the 

 buoys. 



There is but a single dwelling on the island, 

 occupied by a single man, who proved, how- 

 ever, to be no small part of the island's attrac- 

 tiveness, and an interesting specimen of nature 

 in the rough — a tall and vigorous old man, 

 slightly bent, with grizzled beard and sunken 

 cheek, sharp, kindly eyes, and a thin mist of 

 white hair encircling the bald summit of his 

 head, like a ring of vapor round a barren 

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