Patagonia Bookshelf

Monday the 24th Feb. and two following days were spent in landing houses, stores etc. erecting the former and housing the latter. We saw several smokes about, which induced us to think that there were other inhabitants in our neighbourhood who would not make their appearance. Monday and Tuesday nights I spent on shore alone, none of the crew liking to remain with me. Captain Boyse said he would have stayed with me on Tuesday night, had it not been "such an out of the way place and he'd rather not". During Monday night and Tuesday morning all those parts of the roof of the house that I had not succeeded in nailing down during the night, were carried away by the wind, which left the things exposed to the rain. Tuesday night I passed in the store house. I felt that our stores were a great temptation to the natives.