remains of a deserted settlement, whose name will be an eternal
protest against these fertile shores and forests full of game.
The DUNCAN was passing Fort Famine.

It was in that very spot that Sarmiento, a Spaniard, came in 1581,
with four hundred emigrants, to establish a colony.
He founded the city of St. Philip, but the extreme severity
of winter decimated the inhabitants, and those who had
struggled through the cold died subsequently of starvation.
Cavendish the Corsair discovered the last survivor dying
of hunger in the ruins.

After sailing along these deserted shores, the DUNCAN went through
a series of narrow passes, between forests of beech and ash and birch,
and at length doubled Cape Froward, still bristling with the ice
of the last winter. On the other side of the strait, in Terra
del Fuego, stood Mount Sarmiento, towering to a height of 6,000 feet,
an enormous accumulation of rocks, separated by bands of cloud,
forming a sort of aerial archipelago in the sky.

It is at Cape Froward that the American continent actually
terminates, for Cape Horn is nothing but a rock sunk in the sea
in latitude 52 degrees. At Cape Momax the straits widened,
and she was able to get round Narborough Isles and advance
in a more southerly direction, till at length the rock
of Cape Pilares, the extreme point of Desolation Island,
came in sight, thirty-six hours after entering the straits.
Before her stem lay a broad, open, sparkling ocean,
which Jacques Paganel greeted with enthusiastic gestures,
feeling kindred emotions with those which stirred the bosom