ARRIVAL OF DOMINGO 67 
May 24 ., Friday . Bed. At sunset, canoe seen in distance 
entering Rio Douglas from the Murray Strait. Turned out 
to be the missing Domingo with his family, self, two wives, 
and five children, two otter dogs, and tame bird (a large kind 
of dark gull, a young one, called ‘willy-willy’ by natives). 
Of the two wives, the younger, who didn’t look more than 
twenty-six to twenty-eight, was the daughter of the elder one, 
who was apparently discarded, but lived on in the family. 
The younger woman was the mother of the five children, 
and also of an elder boy who had come in with Alfredo 
Grandi 1 in a little two-ton cutter ‘Porvenir’ from Bertrand 
Island, a few miles further south in the straits which 
he owns. [This Grandi is a] tall broad-shouldered fine 
fellow, mother Spanish, father (Senor Grandi) Austro- 
Italian. 
In the afternoon, late, came also a small two-ton cutter 
(only sail), the ‘Venea’, with Captain Ramon and com¬ 
panions—a Russian ‘shooter’ (Russian or Esthonian father, 
English mother), and a Portugese sailor. Little cutter had 
been out buftetting in open sea on way to Cape Horn, and 
was caught in gale. Rudder broken, mast gone , 2 but fortu¬ 
nately did not lose small boat. Driven away under the lee of 
Stewart Island, and then into comparatively quiet water. 
Managed to tow and beach the cutter in a cove near Cape 
Emily. Repaired rudder, got new beech-wood mast , 3 and 
1 [His father's] boat wrecked near St. Rosa. Sailor and passenger (woman) took 
only boat and w^ere saved. Captain [Alfredo’s father] tied his boy to mast and swam 
off in effort to get help. Drowned, and boy frozen to death. Grandi [left this Alfredo 
and] another son. Mother still alive in Punta Arenas.—Note on left-hand page of A. 
See also entry for June 4. 
2 They had just three or four feet of mast left. Rigged up a little bit of sail, 
and as wind was favourable, they were carried to the island, and got into a little 
shelter, and so towed (rowing) boat to shore.—Note on left-hand page of A. 
3 No suitable tree for mast, only gnarled beeches and others. Managed to rig 
up a temporary mast, and with favourable wind one day made more than 100 miles 
through to the east between O’Brien and Londonderry Islands, on into North-West 
