FROM EDINBURGH TO THE ANTARCTIC 
looking whalers coming down on him just before lunch- 
time. 
Government House is towards the west end of the bay. 
It is built of wood, yet without any of the flimsiness one 
associates with wooden buildings, but solid and sub- 
stantial and suggestive of interior comforts. It was the 
hospitality and comfort inside that went straight to our 
hearts. The low, harmonious colouring, the narrow 
square-paned windows, and the wide hearths with ruddy 
peat fires reminded me of the interior of a Burgomeister's 
house in the Netherlands ; and the view from the win- 
dows looking up the bay to the west recalled Kilchoan 
in Ardnamurchan and the view looking up the road to 
Benhiant and Loch Meudal. 
Before we left we were shown through the garden, and 
were astonished, after the accounts we had read of the 
