The Land of Fire, A Tale of Adventure

Excerpt: A ship tempest-tossed, labouring amid the surges of an angry sea; her crew on the alert, doing their utmost to keep her off a lee-shore. And such a shore! None more dangerous on all ocean?s edge; for it is the west coast of Tierra del Fuego, abreast the Fury Isles and that long belt of seething breakers known to mariners as the ?Milky Way,? the same of which the great naturalist, Darwin, ...