But Wallis first ordered a large quantity of wood to be cut and conveyed on board the Prince Frederick , for transport to the Falkland Isles, where it is not obtainable. At the same time he had hundreds of young trees carefully dug up, and the roots covered in their native soil to facilitate their transplantation in Port Egmont, that in taking root--as there was reason to hope they would--they might supply the barren archipelago with this precious commodity.
Lastly, the provisions were divided between the Dauphin and the Swallow . The former taking sufficient for a year, the latter for ten months.
We will not enlarge upon the different incidents which befell the two ships in the Straits of Magellan, such as sudden gales, tempests and snowstorms, irregular and rapid currents, heavy seas a
