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"
If
you
are
right
,
"
I
said
,
"
then
we
must
prepare
to
winter
here
.
Our
food
will
not
last
,
but
there
are
the
seals
.
They
go
away
in
the
fall
,
so
I
must
soon
begin
to
lay
in
a
supply
of
meat
.
Then
there
will
be
huts
to
build
and
driftwood
to
gather
.
Also
we
shall
try
out
seal
fat
for
lighting
purposes
.
Altogether
,
we
'll
have
our
hands
full
if
we
find
the
island
uninhabited
.
Which
we
shall
not
,
I
know
.
"
But
she
was
right
.
We
sailed
with
a
beam
wind
along
the
shore
,
searching
the
coves
with
our
glasses
and
landing
occasionally
,
without
finding
a
sign
of
human
life
.
Yet
we
learned
that
we
were
not
the
first
who
had
landed
on
Endeavour
Island
.
High
up
on
the
beach
of
the
second
cove
from
ours
,
we
discovered
the
splintered
wreck
of
a
boat
--
a
sealer
's
boat
,
for
the
rowlocks
were
bound
in
sennit
,
a
gun-rack
was
on
the
starboard
side
of
the
bow
,
and
in
white
letters
was
faintly
visible
Gazelle
No.
2
.
The
boat
had
lain
there
for
a
long
time
,
for
it
was
half
filled
with
sand
,
and
the
splintered
wood
had
that
weather-worn
appearance
due
to
long
exposure
to
the
elements
.
In
the
stern-sheets
I
found
a
rusty
ten-gauge
shot-gun
and
a
sailor
's
sheath-knife
broken
short
across
and
so
rusted
as
to
be
almost
unrecognizable
.
"
They
got
away
,
"
I
said
cheerfully
;
but
I
felt
a
sinking
at
the
heart
and
seemed
to
divine
the
presence
of
bleached
bones
somewhere
on
that
beach
.
I
did
not
wish
Maud
's
spirits
to
be
dampened
by
such
a
find
,
so
I
turned
seaward
again
with
our
boat
and
skirted
the
north-eastern
point
of
the
island
.
There
were
no
beaches
on
the
southern
shore
,
and
by
early
afternoon
we
rounded
the
black
promontory
and
completed
the
circumnavigation
of
the
island
.
I
estimated
its
circumference
at
twenty-five
miles
,
its
width
as
varying
from
two
to
five
miles
;
while
my
most
conservative
calculation
placed
on
its
beaches
two
hundred
thousand
seals
.
The
island
was
highest
at
its
extreme
south-western
point
,
the
headlands
and
backbone
diminishing
regularly
until
the
north-eastern
portion
was
only
a
few
feet
above
the
sea
.
With
the
exception
of
our
little
cove
,
the
other
beaches
sloped
gently
back
for
a
distance
of
half-a-mile
or
so
,
into
what
I
might
call
rocky
meadows
,
with
here
and
there
patches
of
moss
and
tundra
grass
.
Here
the
seals
hauled
out
,
and
the
old
bulls
guarded
their
harems
,
while
the
young
bulls
hauled
out
by
themselves
.
This
brief
description
is
all
that
Endeavour
Island
merits
.
Damp
and
soggy
where
it
was
not
sharp
and
rocky
,
buffeted
by
storm
winds
and
lashed
by
the
sea
,
with
the
air
continually
a-tremble
with
the
bellowing
of
two
hundred
thousand
amphibians
,
it
was
a
melancholy
and
miserable
sojourning-place
.
Maud
,
who
had
prepared
me
for
disappointment
,
and
who
had
been
sprightly
and
vivacious
all
day
,
broke
down
as
we
landed
in
our
own
little
cove
.
She
strove
bravely
to
hide
it
from
me
,
but
while
I
was
kindling
another
fire
I
knew
she
was
stifling
her
sobs
in
the
blankets
under
the
sail-tent
.
It
was
my
turn
to
be
cheerful
,
and
I
played
the
part
to
the
best
of
my
ability
,
and
with
such
success
that
I
brought
the
laughter
back
into
her
dear
eyes
and
song
on
her
lips
;
for
she
sang
to
me
before
she
went
to
an
early
bed
.
It
was
the
first
time
I
had
heard
her
sing
,
and
I
lay
by
the
fire
,
listening
and
transported
,
for
she
was
nothing
if
not
an
artist
in
everything
she
did
,
and
her
voice
,
though
not
strong
,
was
wonderfully
sweet
and
expressive
.
I
still
slept
in
the
boat
,
and
I
lay
awake
long
that
night
,
gazing
up
at
the
first
stars
I
had
seen
in
many
nights
and
pondering
the
situation
.
Responsibility
of
this
sort
was
a
new
thing
to
me
.
Wolf
Larsen
had
been
quite
right
I
had
stood
on
my
father
's
legs
.
My
lawyers
and
agents
had
taken
care
of
my
money
for
me
.
I
had
had
no
responsibilities
at
all
.
Then
,
on
the
Ghost
I
had
learned
to
be
responsible
for
myself
.
And
now
,
for
the
first
time
in
my
life
,
I
found
myself
responsible
for
some
one
else
.
And
it
was
required
of
me
that
this
should
be
the
gravest
of
responsibilities
,
for
she
was
the
one
woman
in
the
world
--
the
one
small
woman
,
as
I
loved
to
think
of
her
.
