9 8 SPENCER’S JOURNAL 
forming white points on the black rocks. When the sun was 
setting, low clouds of vapour rose over the water in the 
middle of the Sound, drifting round to the west towards 
Hoste Island. The same vapour clouds rising along the 
Rio Douglas. 
June 28 y Friday . Freezing night, north wind, blustery at 
intervals. Very dark morning. No light in sky till 8 a.m., 
when red tinge on clouds to north-west. Glass low and 
falling. Decided not to attempt Hoste Island. Ken and 
Enrique out to camp to cut Lena dura for food for cattle. 
Grandi came in at 11 a.m. and left for Ushuaia at 1.15 p.m. 
Small cutter from Ushuaia at 3.30 p.m. 
Chart shows marked difference in configuration of Navarin 
and Hoste Island. Hoste very mountainous everywhere, 
with the whole surface penetrated by long tortuous channels 
or sounds. The latter practically absent on Navarin, which 
has.a much less indented coast line, and open flat or, undulat¬ 
ing country in its eastern parts. In this respect it resembles 
Tierra del Fuego which again, save on its western side, is 
similar to Navarin to the south and Patagonia (eastern part) 
to the north. Ken says no ‘minerals’ on Navarin, but every¬ 
where on Hoste Island. No guanaco on Hoste, West coast 
of Navarin, along Murray Narrows and further south, seems 
identical in structure with opposite coast of Hoste Island. 
Ken Williams says that peat was actually dug up and used 
in the old Mission station on Tekenika Bay. Many parts, 
such as flats on margin of Rio Douglas, look like peat in the 
forming. But perhaps climatic conditions not now favour¬ 
able. Ken says coal on Hoste Island. 
I rom this date until July 3, the diary is in a small rough notebook 
hitherto referred to as B. A comparison of this small book with the 
larger one shows how carefully evidence was tested and statements 
corrected before a final entry was made, and Miss Hamilton has said 
that the material at the end of the small notebook was not corrected. 
