I pursued my investigations some way to the west of the bay.

West Falkland is more extensive than its neighbour, La Soledad, and possesses another fort at the southern point of Byron's Sound--too far off for me to go there.
I could not estimate the population of the Archipelago even approximately.

Probably, it did not then exceed from two to three hundred souls, mostly English, with some Indians, Portuguese, Spaniards, Gauche from the Argentine Pampas, and natives from Tier Del Fuel.

On the other hand, the representatives of the ovine and bovine races were to be counted by tens of thousands.

More than five hundred thousand sheep yield over four hundred thousand dollars' worth of wool yearly.