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can draw your boat or canoe over a narrow flat neck and enter the Beagle Channel by a side branch. Again, from another arm you can in like easy manner enter the waters of New Year's Sound, which is a sheet of water broken up by innumerable islands, among which anchorages abound.
A sealing vessel anchored among the islands south of New Year's Sound, and took two natives to the Ildefonsos, where they killed many seals and gave the fat to the natives who helped in skinning the animals. This must have been at the time when anxious eyes looked seaward down Rous Sound in earnest hope and pressing need of deliverance.
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It appears that the poor fellows lost their fire at last, and were unable to make it
We found some wooden matches loose in a few pockets, but found no wax matches, and Cushooyif, who doubtless watched the spot narrowly, saw no smoke, but only the white canvas. All nine, I think, must have been then alive. There was much small wood, thickets, and scattered dwarf trees from 1 to 3 feet high, and all the larger wood had been cut down with their one axe. There were the branches scattered about which they had lopped off. They appear to have taken no pains to make a shelter from the weather save spreading their sail, nor did they lay twigs and grass on the damp or rather wet soppy land in the bottom of the rift in which they lived to secure dry and warm beds.
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The summer this year was an unusually bad one, being particularly wet and cold. On Saturday we left New Year's Sound, and sailed among islands into Bourchier Bay, thence to Nassau Bay. To-morrow we hope to be at Ooshooia.
I remain, &c.
(Signed) T. BRIDGES,
Missionary Superintendent, Ooshooia S. A. M. Society.
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On the 24th January the cook, Henry Hill, died from exposure, and when the remainder were rescued by the ship "Yorkshire on the 31st, George Hind, one of the apprentices, had two toes amputated. The following is a list of the crew saved :—
William Kilgour
W. McLeod
James Richards
P. Sheeham
J. H. Ormsby
J. Black
John Murray
F. Allen
W. Kenny
A. Martell
and G. Hinds
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2nd mate. 3rd mate. Sailmaker. Steward.
Able seamen.
James McAdam, master, and his wife.
James Reed
J. Johansen
H. Hemmings C. Pugh and W. H. Swift
George Stewart - Daly
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Apprentice.
Carpenter.
Able seamen.
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Apprentices.
Enclosure 2.
COPY of a NOTE, written in lead pencil on four leaves torn out of a pocket book, from Captain James McAdam, of the ship "San Rafael" of Liverpool, to John Fleming, 84, Canterbury Street, Everton, Liverpool, and found in a bush on Hoste Island in the vicinity of Tierra del Fuego.
"In lat. 54° 30* S., long. 71o, W., Feb. 15th, 1876.
"Dear John,-When you receive this your Mother and mee will be no more we have been 41 days in this desolate Island on very low diet your Mother and mee is very weak I am about blind I can scarcley see the paper I am writing My watch and your Mother chain my-instruments I give to Willy my Albert to yourself and you must wear your Mothers ring the ear rings for Jessey My instrument cloths & gold watch & three pounds twelve shilling to assist in maintang Willie, and I hope you will be as a father to him kind and giving him good advice, the furniture to to yourself their is too chrono- meters one Telescope one night the chronometer marked Webster & Telescope me you must take to the office and you can see if their is any money due for mee if their is it will have to go for the maintainance of William And his Mother joins with mee in hoping he will be a good Boy and not forget his God and we hope that you & Jessey
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may long together in happiness & peace in Fear of the Lord, and now we send you our last kind loveing blessing and may God Bless you all is the sincerest wish of your
Parents.
"James McAdam To John Fleming 84 Canterbury Street Everton Liverpool.".
EXTRACT from the "Liverpool Weekly Mercury,” dated 15th April 1876.
The "San Rafael," bound from Liverpool for Valparaiso with coal was burned on the 4th of January in latitude 59° S. and longitude 76° W. Eleven of the crew were picked up on the 31st January by the “Yarkshire," from Melbourne, and arrived at Gravesend on Wednesday. The captain and the remainder of the crew are missing.
The following further particulars have been received: On the night of leaving the vessel the boats parted company, the captain, his wife, and eight others being in the long- boat. The crew of the other boat were in a sad state, and suffered greatly from hunger, sores, and frostbite.
Some days were passed in shelter on the numerous small islands to the south-west of Terra del Fuego, but from their barren nature only limpata and mussels were obtained.
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