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ECHOES OF CAPE HORN
WRECK-HOUSE
LAST MESSAGES FROM
SHIPWRECKED MEN
"Radlo, echo-sounding and all the devices of civilisation have not robbed Cape Horn of its dangera for mariners.
It is more than 300 years since Cape Horn was first rounded. To-day there is still a wreck-house, where all who come may find re- freshment, housing, tobacco and fuel-even cards and a free library,
There is no time-limit but death to the length of stay visitors may make. A passing ship may, or may not, see a distress signal. A raft may, or may not, carry sur vivors safely to the mainland-and even then there is a long and difficult journey to the, Arst of the small Spanish harbours.
A log-book written in many languages tells the record of those that came to the wreck-house. Few but those who have needed the protection of the house have seen it.None know of the subsequent fate of those who signed it. It is the most tragic "visitors' book" in the world.
EXPLORER'S VISIT
Mr. Francis K. Pease, formerly a member of Discovery Committee's expeditions to the Antarctic, trader
native Africa, leader of northern expedition to search for the log-books of the explorer Franklin, visited the wreck-
ita
house when the Royal Research ship William Scoresby was driven to take refuge (of all places) beneath Cape Horn.
He describes his visit, in "To the Ends of the Earth," published lust, month (Hurst and Blackett, 10s.),
a finger-post, reminiscent of civilisation, pointed the way,
"To worn-out and starving ship- wrecked mariners it nuust have been the most wonderful place on
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earth," he writes, “an absolute paradise of comfort."
One English Inscription, cut on the wooden walls, is "Thank God for this place." Others are pen- cilled, many so faded as to be up- readable. In one the single phrase "I'm the only one what got ashore," ia decipherable.
The last entry, in the log-book was about two years old and in Danish or Swedish Mr. Penso thought, which "he, could not read. 'Another entry, about five years
old, was that of a Finnish sailing- ship captain. Enough of it could bo translated to learn that a large number of the ship's company had
been drowned.
"The writing," states Mr. Pease, "was spidery and uncertain, like that of a very sick man. Perhaps he died there in that wreck-house and his companions buried him somewhere near." But though Mr. Pense and his fellow explorers searched round the house for signs of graves, they could not find them.
On the precipitous mountain Alove. from which Mr. Pense watched a schcomer weathering the Cape, they found caves, with ashes Jeft by the Patagonian natives, and clear evidence of a copper de- posit.
Mr. Pease has provided a record of adventure in many parts of the work. Few men have been in more unusual places, or done more un- usual things, and he writes of them all with interest.
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