ROUTE TO USHUAIA 
55 
May 4, Saturday . Left Magallanes at 8.30 p.m. on forty- 
ton cutter ‘Fortunato Viego’, belonging to Messrs. Beban 
of Ushuaia, under Captain Emil Carsen. Dark when we left, 
and went down Broad and Famine Reaches during the night. 
May 5, Sunday . Nine passengers on board, including 
Mr. Claude Williams of Estancia Rio Douglas on Navarin 
Island, son of the Rev. J. Williams, formerly missionary on 
Navarin. Early Sunday morning left Magellan Strait, which 
turned off eastwards at Cape Froward, and went south down 
Magellan Sound on west side of Dawson Island, with 
Clarence Island on west, and Tierra on east and south, to 
Cape Turn on Clarence Island. Anchored in Warp Bay at 
3 p.m., as weather was rough in Channel. Mt. Sarmiento 
(7,830 ft.) to east of us; cloudy, but very good views occa¬ 
sionally, with glacier coming down from west side; glaciers 
all round Sarmiento Peninsula. To south of us, Pyramid 
Hill (2,500 ft.), and behind this, ranges all snow covered. 
Quiet night, and would have been most enjoyable but for 
certain passengers. Captain Carsen, Czecho-Slovak, a very 
quaint little man, always peering about with hands in 
pockets, and smoking cigarette of Chilean tobacco—odour 
unmistakable—with burnt end of paper hanging down; 
always during night walking through little cabin with four 
bunks round it, down little staircase to the engine room. 
Cook a most excellent shock-headed Spaniard, who at times 
came down for a furtive drink out of a dark cupboard just 
over my head; always had a glass of wine at meals. One day 
took chop from dish while we were at meal, sat down on 
ladder leading from deck to ‘saloon’, and ate it in his fingers; 
required more bread, and cut it on step of ‘staircase’. Very 
excellent cook however. Sanitary arrangements, owing to 
two terrible female passengers, especially one, indescribable. 
Luckily, weather for the most part good, but girls horribly 
sick into pail held by cook, and used for sundry purposes. 
