VIEW FROM MAN-SHAN 79 
rock, and plant has long stems that may be fully 100 feet 
long. Water perfectly smooth, and could see the huge kelp 
trees forming a great submarine forest rising from depths of 
30 to 40 fathoms through the green water. Plants slant up¬ 
wards to the surface, and never grow vertically. Each ‘frond’ 
comes off from the stalk, all along one side or mostly so, with 
ovoid swollen hollow structure, and frond two feet or more 
long. On this kelp live a number of animals, among others 
the pink-purple shell used by the natives for necklaces, like 
the Elenchus of the Tasmanians. Birds like the Kelp Goose 
feed on the fish that live amongst the kelp. 
From the landing place climbed across the rocky tree- 
covered point called Man-shdn 1 (Yaghan) to a rock facing 
south-east across the water. The sea was wonderfully calm, 
opalescent with stretches of saffron-yellow and pale turquoise- 
blue with lines of darker blue. Here and there were hidden 
rocks with kelp patches. Across the waters of Ponsonby 
Sound was Hoste Island with its snow-capped peaks, and 
away to the north across the Murray Channel, Button Island, 
Pacha Islands, and others, were the snow peaks of the Beagle 
Channel and the Darwin Mountains. On to the south and 
south-east and south-west were the distant Wollaston and 
Her mite Island group with Cape Horn. Away to the south¬ 
west was False Cape Horn hidden by the range terminating in 
Cape Lort, three miles to the south of this. ‘Beagle’ anchored 
in Lort Bay. Could see Orange Bay in which ‘Romanche’ 
stayed a long time in 1883, and left tablet with all names on, 
Packsaddle Island, Scotchwell Bay, Hardy Peninsula with ser¬ 
rated range, Christmas Harbour, and Tekenika Bay with Allan 
Gardiner Bay. Then looked northwards to Cape Webley, and 
almost due west of where we sat to Pasteur Peninsula (see map). 
1 Note in margin of A: Only landing places in cove were the little beach on which 
we landed, and a small patch of shingle on opposite side. No trace of hanging valley 
here or anywhere along the coast. 
