Akichakwarrakwiltee (Emilia), a woman from Patagonian channels in 1908. .
Identifier: ofpatagonia00skotwildsrich Title: The wilds of Patagonia; a narrative of the Swedish expedition to Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands in 1907-1909 Year: 1911 (1910s) Authors: Skottsberg, Carl, 1880-1963 Subjects: Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) -- Description and travel Tierra del Fuego (Argentina and Chile) -- Description and travel Falkland Islands -- Description and travel Publisher: London : E. Arnold Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing After Image: c <^< o zz < a az THE PATAGONIAN CHANNELS 79 dream ourselves far away, the beeches become Scotchfirs, the foreign sea-bhds our common eiders andgulls. . . . We made for a harbour in the offing. With Bordeson board we could make short cuts not marked in thecharts, through interesting passages and narrow channelsnot exceeding 300 feet broad, and in some places sonarrow that we almost touched the fringe of giant kelp(Macrocystis) on each side, a ad anchored in PuertoCuarentaDias, the Forty Days Harbour—a name thatholds a story : here a vessel is said to have waited fortydays before it could approach the Evangelistas rocks.This perhaps is somewhat exaggerated—^I dare notdispute it; anyhow, a weeks waiting is not a rare occur-rence. For us it was of the utmost importance to landon the rock without delay, otherwise the whole voyagethrough the channels might be a failure. No wonderthat we watched the daybreak on May 26 with greatanxiety. We had enjoyed light breezes from north a

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