Three Years in Tristan da Cunha

Three Years in Tristan da Cunha

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[Illustration: THE SETTLEMENT]
THREE YEARS IN TRISTAN DA CUNHA
BY
K. M. BARROW Wife of the Rev. J. G. Barrow, Missionary
Clergyman in Tristan Da Cunha and fellow-worker with him on that
island.
With thirty-seven original illustrations from photographs, and a map.
TO THE READER
The aim of the following pages is to give a simple and true description
of daily life among a very small community cut off from the rest of the
world.
No attempt is made at literary style, the language being almost entirely
that of letters to a sister or of my journal.
In the first and third chapters free use has been made of the Blue Book
(Cd. 3098), September 1906; and of the Africa Pilot,
Part II, Fifth
Edition, 1901.
I desire gratefully to acknowledge to Mr. Casper Keytel of Monille
Point, Cape Town, his very kind permission to use the excellent
photographs taken by him; and also my indebtedness to my husband for
help in the revision of these pages.
K. M. B.
1910
MAP OF THE ISLAND OF TRISTAN DE CUNHA [* OCR image
only shows title]
CONTENTS

AUTHOR'S PREFACE MAP OF ISLAND OF TRISTAN DA
CUNHA
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI

CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII
CHAPTER XXIV
CHAPTER XXV
CHAPTER XXVI
CHAPTER XXVII
CHAPTER XXVIII
CHAPTER XXIX
CHAPTER XXX
CHAPTER XXXI
CHAPTER XXXII
CHAPTER XXXIII

CHAPTER XXXIV
CHAPTER XXXV
CHAPTER XXXVI
CHAPTER XXXVII
APPENDICES A. THE FAUNA AND FLORA OF TRISTAN B. THE
WEATHER C. SOME TRISTAN WORDS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
I THE SETTLEMENT [_Frontispiece_] II THE PEAK SHOWING
ABOVE CLOUDS III BETTY COTTON'S HOUSE (FRONT), OUR
NEW HOME IV BETTY COTTON'S HOUSE (BACK) V THE
WATERFALL VI MOCCASINS VII THE CEMETERY VIII HILL
TOP. INACCESSIBLE IN THE DISTANCE IX THE FLAGSTAFF X
GOING WEST XI IN SCHOOL XII BIG BEACH XIII THE HENRY
GREEN FAMILY AT WORK ON A POTATO PATCH XIV A PAIR
OF PENGUINS XV EARLY MORNING FROM THE WEST,
SHOWING SNOW IN CREVASSE, NEAR PEAK XVI BUGSBY
HOLE XVII THE CRATER LAKE XVIII ON THE SUMMIT OF
THE PEAK XIX COMPLETE GROUP OF THE ISLANDERS XX A
GROUP OF ALL THE MEN XXI THE PATH OF PLANTATION
GULCH XXII CATTLE, NEAR POTATO PATCHES XXIII A
PENGUIN ROOKERY XXIV SHEEP BEING DRIVEN HOME XXV
OUR BATHING PLACE (LITTLE BEACH) XXVI THE OLD
CHURCH HOUSE XXVII LANDING GOODS XXVIII MRS.
REPETTO FISHING XXIX MR. KEYTEL'S HOUSE XXX
FRESHWATER CAVE XXXI MOLLYHAWK ON ITS NEST XXXII
NEARLY FINISHED XXXIII THE KETCH XXXIV
FISH-CLEANING XXXV HOTTENTOT GULCH XXXVI ALL THE
WOMEN AND CHILDREN XXXVII ORANGES AND LEMONS

THREE YEARS IN TRISTAN DA CUNHA

CHAPTER I
Tristan da Cunha, a British possession, is an island-mountain of
volcanic origin in the South Atlantic ocean. Latitude 37° 5' 50" S.;
longitude 12° 16' 40" W. Circular in form. Circumference about 21
miles. Diameter about 7 miles. Height 7,640 feet. Volcano extinct
during historic times. Discovered by the Portuguese navigator Tristan
da Cunha, 1506. Occupied by the British, 1816. Nearest inhabited land,
the island of St. Helena, 1,200 miles to the N.
In the autumn of 1904 we saw in the Standard a letter which arrested
our attention. It was an appeal for some one to go to