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Some
hours
later
,
the
sharp
,
lofty
crags
of
the
group
of
islands
stood
out
clearly
on
the
horizon
.
The
conical
peak
of
Tristan
looked
black
against
the
bright
sky
,
which
seemed
all
ablaze
with
the
splendor
of
the
rising
sun
.
Soon
the
principal
island
stood
out
from
the
rocky
mass
,
at
the
summit
of
a
triangle
inclining
toward
the
northeast
.
Tristan
d'Acunha
is
situated
in
37
degrees
8
'
of
southern
latitude
,
and
10
degrees
44
'
of
longitude
west
of
the
meridian
at
Greenwich
.
Inaccessible
Island
is
eighteen
miles
to
the
southwest
and
Nightingale
Island
is
ten
miles
to
the
southeast
,
and
this
completes
the
little
solitary
group
of
islets
in
the
Atlantic
Ocean
.
Toward
noon
,
the
two
principal
landmarks
,
by
which
the
group
is
recognized
were
sighted
,
and
at
3
P.
M.
the
Duncan
entered
Falmouth
Bay
in
Tristan
d'Acunha
.
Several
whaling
vessels
were
lying
quietly
at
anchor
there
,
for
the
coast
abounds
in
seals
and
other
marine
animals
.
John
Mangle
's
first
care
was
to
find
good
anchorage
,
and
then
all
the
passengers
,
both
ladies
and
gentlemen
,
got
into
the
long
boat
and
were
rowed
ashore
.
They
stepped
out
on
a
beach
covered
with
fine
black
sand
,
the
impalpable
DEBRIS
of
the
calcined
rocks
of
the
island
.
Tristan
d'Acunha
is
the
capital
of
the
group
,
and
consists
of
a
little
village
,
lying
in
the
heart
of
the
bay
,
and
watered
by
a
noisy
,
rapid
stream
.
It
contained
about
fifty
houses
,
tolerably
clean
,
and
disposed
with
geometrical
regularity
.
Behind
this
miniature
town
there
lay
1,500
hectares
of
meadow
land
,
bounded
by
an
embankment
of
lava
.
Above
this
embankment
,
the
conical
peak
rose
7,000
feet
high
.
Lord
Glenarvan
was
received
by
a
governor
supplied
from
the
English
colony
at
the
Cape
.
He
inquired
at
once
respecting
Harry
Grant
and
the
Britannia
,
and
found
the
names
entirely
unknown
.
The
Tristan
d'Acunha
Isles
are
out
of
the
route
of
ships
,
and
consequently
little
frequented
.
Since
the
wreck
of
the
Blendon
Hall
in
1821
,
on
the
rocks
of
Inaccessible
Island
,
two
vessels
have
stranded
on
the
chief
island
--
the
PRIMANGUET
in
1845
,
and
the
three-mast
American
,
PHILADELPHIA
,
in
1857
.
These
three
events
comprise
the
whole
catalogue
of
maritime
disasters
in
the
annals
of
the
Acunhas
.
Lord
Glenarvan
did
not
expect
to
glean
any
information
,
and
only
asked
by
the
way
of
duty
.
He
even
sent
the
boats
to
make
the
circuit
of
the
island
,
the
entire
extent
of
which
was
not
more
than
seventeen
miles
at
most
.
In
the
interim
the
passengers
walked
about
the
village
.
The
population
does
not
exceed
150
inhabitants
,
and
consists
of
English
and
Americans
,
married
to
negroes
and
Cape
Hottentots
,
who
might
bear
away
the
palm
for
ugliness
.
The
children
of
these
heterogeneous
households
are
very
disagreeable
compounds
of
Saxon
stiffness
and
African
blackness
.
It
was
nearly
nightfall
before
the
party
returned
to
the
yacht
,
chattering
and
admiring
the
natural
riches
displayed
on
all
sides
,
for
even
close
to
the
streets
of
the
capital
,
fields
of
wheat
and
maize
were
waving
,
and
crops
of
vegetables
,
imported
forty
years
before
;
and
in
the
environs
of
the
village
,
herds
of
cattle
and
sheep
were
feeding
