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Rh Returning to the Spray, where I found all secure, I prepared for an early start in the morning. It was agreed that the steamer should blow her whistle for me if first on the move. I watched

A contrast in lighting—the electric lights of the Colombia and the canoe fires of the Fortescue Indians.

the steamer, off and on, through the night for the pleasure alone of seeing her electric lights, a pleasing sight in contrast to the ordinary Fuegian canoe with a brand of fire in it. The sloop was the first under way, but the Colombia soon following, passed, and saluted as she went by. Had the captain given me his steamer, his company