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anchor were almost all old hulks or dismantled vessels. 
Three or four seemed still to be of this ocean life, but they 
were sadly the worse of weather ; one had her foremast 
gone, and her bulwarks smashed, another was having new 
yards hauled aloft. A pretty white schooner we passed 
alongside showed only the two stumps of her masts and 
looked damaged about the hull. 1 All told of storm and 
gale and narrow escape, — the dismal side of sea life. 
Stanley lay opposite us on the south side of the loch, 
some eighty small white wooden houses with corrugated 
iron roofs, scattered along a low hill-side that rose behind 
the town some 400 feet. But for the want of trees, 
1 The Foam. Registered from Water ford in 1S62 ; 65 tons, owned by 
Lord Dufferin. She was once within 100 miles of being as far north as any 
sailing vessel of her time (see Letters from High Latitudes, by Lord Duffer in), 
has since been owned by the Falkland Island Government, went on a reef 
in S.W. gale, May 1890. Requiescat in pace. 
