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As there are no roads, except 13 miles in Port Stanley-there are no draught horses, and to import and feed a large number would be very expensive-some of the transport could be done by boats and steam-vessels, and for the construction of works I should recommend trucks on 3-feet tramway.

My visit to the Falkland Islands was during the winter and spring, viz., the 20th August to 16th November; I had, therefore, no experience of the summer season, when, I am told, a south-west wind usually blows very strong from about 9 A.M. till sunset.

The winds are certainly stronger in the day time than in the night time.

The assistants who worked for me show how scanty labour is in the Settlement :—-- I hired a useful lad, a Falkland islander, at 57. per month; a Swede, who was very intelligent, at 6. a-month; a Greek, who could not write, at 67. a-month; an Austrian, at 6s. a-day; and, occasionally, two of the inhabitants who worked the pilot-boat (one a butcher), at 6s.

H. CAUTLEY, Major, R.E.

(Signed)

Appendix No. 4.

FALKLAND ISLANDS. Transport-

By boats and steamers. By tramways.

Major Cautley's experience of

Falkland season.

Horse Guards, March 10, 1882.

Appendix No. 1.

Defence by Submarine Mines for Stanley Harbour.

A line of submarine mines must be laid across the outer harbour.

I propose electro-contact mines between Ordnance Point and Doctor's Point, 1,000 yards long, with an opening next Ordnance Point defended by ground mines, and so leaving a passage for vessels.

For this line would be required: electro-contact mines, 36; ground mines, 8. The observing station, with water communication and accommodation for one or more small boats, would be at the end of the north ditch of Ordnance Point, on the cliff, the platform being 45 feet above the sea, called Melvill's Hole.

In advance of the electro-contact mines might be moored, free of the kelp: 5 booms, 32 boat mines, 4 quadruple groups of electro-contact mines.

Line of mines. Electro-contact mines.

Electro-contact mines Ground mines..

36

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8

Observing station at Melvill's

Hole.

Booms, boat mines, &c.

Second line between Engineer

At the entrance of Stanley Harbour, and south of the line between Engineer and Navy Points, I recommend two lines of four ground mines each, to be fired from an observing and Navy Points. station on Engineer Point.

APPROXIMATE Estimate of Cost of Submarine Mining Defence.

Observing station on Engineer Point.

Stores Boats Store-houses, &c.

Add one-half

Submarine mining, total

:::

:

Outer Line.

Inner Line.

Harbour Defence (both Lines).

£

£

£

5,000

1,280

0,280

2,560

(1,280)

2,560

2,500

(1,250)

2,500

10,060

(3,810)

11,340

5,670

17,110

(Signed)

H. CAUTLEY, Major, R.E.

Appendix No. 2.

STANLEY HARBOUR.

ESTIMATE of Cost of Defences.

These amounts have been arrived at by allowing for-

Sea Batteries-Barbette emplacements, casemate emplacements, iron-work for shields for 10-inch guns, construction of parapets and ditches, magazines, casemate cover and bombproofs.

Land Defences.-Parapets and ditches, emplacements, magazines, bombproof cover. Miscellaneous-Tanks, parades, inclosures, gateways, gates, bridges, drainage, roads. Military Station.-Huts for head-quarters and for 1,500 men, commissariat, military stores, Royal Artillery depôts, Engineer depôt, landing-stage and camber.

(Signed)

H. CAUTLEY, Major, R.E.

March 10, 1882.

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