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Pembroke, the most easterly point of the Falkland 
Islands. 
The appearance of the coast was, to us, very homely, 
and reminded us of the Shetlands, or the shores of Mull 
or Jura. The hills were, perhaps, a little lower and 
sharper. They rose inland from wide sweeps of dun- 
coloured grass, and brown moorland. This moorland 
met the beach in white sand-dunes and low stretches of 
black rock. 
Here is a small map of Port William roadstead. The 
harbour of Port Stanley opens off the south side of 
the roadstead. The entrance to the harbour, called 
the Narrows, is about three hundred yards wide, and 
the channel is marked five and a half fathoms. Port 
William can be entered in any weather, and the pre- 
vailing wind, which blows across the Narrows, is a fair 
