II4 MISS HAMILTON’S JOURNAL 
in boiling fat. The Professor had really to be restrained, he 
liked them so much. Certainly no one would suggest that 
he was not still young; so amazingly well he looks, and his 
enthusiasm is that of a school boy over the dough cakes. It 
was but very reluctantly that he agreed that ‘perhaps they 
might lie heavily on one’s chest’. All plans for work are 
complete for the rest of our short stay in Rio Douglas, Isle 
Navarino. The wind has dropped and we hope to leave to¬ 
morrow morning. 
July 5, Friday . During the night, at 12.15 a.m., the Pro¬ 
fessor had another bad and sudden illness, the same as before 
at Rio Douglas, leaving him quite helpless. He said this 
morning that this attack was worse than the previous one. 
In spite of this he firmly and strongly refused to give his 
consent to Senor Williams going in his cutter to bring the 
one and only medicine man down south, living in Ushuaia 
18 miles away by sea. Smilingly he blamed the dough cakes 
he had eaten with such enjoyment, and vowed never to eat 
them again, saying that it was only rest he wanted as before, 
and he would be well again in a couple of days. His big grief 
was that he was wasting valuable time, but he was perfectly 
comfortable, and hot bottles, just as he had in Rio Douglas, 
were all that could be desired. Although far from satisfied, 
we were forced to accept his firm decision. 
July 6, Saturday . The Professor is not making any pro¬ 
gress; no real sleep, only troubled dozes during the night. 
After many hours of hard talking this morning, he has at 
last consented to Williams going to Ushuaia for the Doctor, 
saying with a whimsical smile, ‘Well, just to please you: let 
him come, but he cannot do any more than is being done.’ 
He sat up in bed, wrote down the fullest details for the 
Doctor, and at the same time a letter to Senor Martin 
Lawrence in Ushuaia. The young Indians are keeping very 
quiet, warned by their parents not to make a noise near the 
