The chief distraction is to walk from the slaughter-house to the graveyard.

For a change one may walk from the graveyard to the slaughter-house.

Ellaline Terriss was born at Port Stanley--a fact not forgotten by the residents, but she has not lived there much since.

I could not content myself to wait for six or seven weeks, knowing that six hundred miles away my comrades were in dire need.

I asked the Chilian Government to send the 'Yelcho', the steamer that had towed us before, to take the schooner across to Punta Arenas, and they consented promptly, as they had done to every other request of mine.