i8o FROM EDINBURGH TO THE ANTARCTIC 
were going ashore to visit the foreman of the Company's 
forge, with whom the Rev. Mr. H was lodging, and we 
had to join this party, sleepy and tired as we were, and 
had to take the pipes too. The whale-boat was pretty 
well loaded when we were all aboard. The piper was put 
in the bow, and had to play all he knew. We rowed round 
the two neighbouring ships, both here to repair damage 
received from Cape Horn weather, and great was the 
excitement. The crew of the Hyderabad stood on the 
anchor-deck, silhouetted against the primrose evening sky, 
and each asked for his favourite tune : ' Please will she play 
piobrach " Dhoal Dhubh," ' a north country man would ask, 
and ' Hi, mon, gie 's the " Glenda Ruil Hielanders," ' would 
shout one frae Glasgie. She was a Glasgow ship un- 
doubtedly, so I played pibroch laments and marches till 
my cheeks ached, for the pipes were * stiff/ and then we 
played ashore and landed, and played up the road in the 
dark to the house of Chaplin, the master of the forge. 
Chaplin hailed from Dunkeld, and was greatly stirred in 
spirit when he heard his native music. As a lad he had 
served as smith on a Dundee whaler in the Arctic, now 
he is foreman of the Company's engineering shop here, 
with a dozen men under him ; a tall, clean-limbed man, 
with small head and long arms, the picture of an athlete, 
the best in the colony at throwing the hammer, and 
running the mile. . . . What a glorious evening we had ! 
Horn — foremast and some yards gone, and bulwarks damaged. Still from 
May 28 to November is a long time to take to refit, and the skipper expected 
to have to stay several months longer. The bill to pay the Company -was 
something astonishing. 
