Mann auf dem Meer: oder, eine Geschichte der maritimen Abenteuer, Erforschung und Entdeckung, von den frühesten Zeiten bis in die heutige Zeit... . D, auf die wir hingewiesen haben underSebald de Weert. Es geschah wie folgt: Auf die kleinste der Inseln einige Eingeborene gesehen wurden, whomade Anzeichen für die Niederländischen nicht voraus, und warf Sie somepenguins von den Klippen. Zu sehen, dass die Fremden continuedto Ansatz, sie schossen Pfeile, die den niederländischen Re - mit Kugeln. Die wilden floh Zuflucht zu einem cavernwhere sie ihre Frauen und Kinder abgesondert hatte. Die Dutchpursued sie und ihre Waffen

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Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . d to which we have alluded underSebald de Weert. It happened as follows: On the smallest of the islands some natives were seen, whomade signs to the Dutch not to advance, and threw them somepenguins from the cliffs. Seeing that the strangers continuedto approach, they shot arrows at them, which the Dutch re-turned with bullets. The savages fled for refuge to a cavernwhere they had secreted their women and children. The Dutchpursued them, and used their fire-arms with unrelenting ferocity, receiving little or no damage from the feeble missiles of thenatives. The latter continued to fight in defence of their womenand children with undiminished courage, and not till the lastman of them was killed did the Hollanders obtain an entrance. 292 MAN UPON THE SEA. Within they found a number of wretched mothers who hadformed barricades of their own bodies to protect their children.Of these they killed several and wounded more. Seven weeksafter, as has been said, Sebald de Weert found the tribe ex-. AFFRAY BETWEEN THE DUTCH AND PATAGONIANS. terminated and but one woman surviving. Six children weretaken by Van Noort on board of the fleet. One of the boysafterwards learned to speak the Dutch language, and from himwere obtained several slender items of information respectingthe tribe to which he had belonged, but which were far fromcompensating for the flagrant act of cruelty which had led tothe capture of his fellow-exiles and himself. The men went ashore near Cape Froward, and some of themate of an herb which drove them raging mad. During ananchorage here, the carpenters built a boat thirty-seven feetlong in the keel; the blacksmith set up his forge, while thewooders made charcoal from trees which they felled. A lightwind springing up, the vice-admiral, without receiving orders, MAN UPON THE SEA. 293 fired a gun and got under way, and, though the adm

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