FROM EDINBURGH TO THE ANTARCTIC 
wet sands of the Red Sea and hear again the clear notes 
of Gilla Callum? 1 
Chaplin's house is typical of all the other Stanley 
houses. It is built with horizontal boards (clinker-built, 
if I may apply the term to a house), with a red brick 
foundation, the roof of grey slate— most of the other 
houses have corrugated iron roofs — with five small win- 
dows, with brightly-coloured sashes and a glass porch in 
the middle of the front. In this there are geraniums 
and roses ; only few flowers grow out of doors on account 
of the strong winds, so the colonists make up for this 
by cultivating them indoors. 
Of the interior of the houses there is little to be said ; 
all the furnishings are machine-made, mostly sent from 
Britain, that grand factory of cheap, ugly things. Alas and 
alack-a-day, when will taste drive our machinery, and the 
capabilities of a machine cease to be the limit of our taste ? 
After breakfast we were requested to play our land- 
lord down to the forge. We played the ' Perthshire High- 
landers ' through the potato patch in great style. The 
forge is a large corrugated iron shed, about 150 feet long, 
at the foot of the garden. There were about a dozen big 
sinewy men working at some heavy iron work for a dis- 
masted vessel that lay opposite in the loch. The steam- 
hammer was pounding away, and the sparks were flying. 
The pipes ringing in the vaulted iron roof and the 
clanging of the anvil made a most infernal din. 
1 Tradition says that Gilla Callum was the tune Moses asked his piper to 
play on this occasion. It is a tune well adapted for those who would walk 
hastily. 
