Nevermore by David Day

Author:David Day [Day, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Quattro Books
Published: 2012-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

Four creatures of great fierceness resembling wolves, ran up to their bellies in the water to attack the people in the boat and so we were forced to put out to sea again to find a safer haven further along the sandy shore. But soon as we saw the beasts again in a state of alarm we set fire to the tussock to get rid of them. But in this we had greater effect than expected as the country was ablaze as far as the eye could reach for several days, and we could see them running in great numbers.

The Adventures of Midshipman John Byron included the wrecking of his ship The Wager in the notorious Straits of Magellan. Midshipman John Byron eventually became Captain John Byron, the fourth Lord Byron and grandfather of the great Romantic poet George Gordon, the sixth Lord Byron. This was one of the most famously harrowing adventures of the time. With the survivors of the wreck, John Byron arrived on the Falklands where he encountered these seemingly ferocious “Wolves.” Like his grandson, Byron was a controversial character who earned the name “Foul Weather Jack” after his promotion to rank of commodore after he completed a record-breaking twenty-two month circumnavigation of the globe. As commander of the Dolphin and Tamar he claimed the Falklands for George III in 1764, despite France’s Marquis de Bougainville’s simultaneous efforts at colonization of those islands that same year.

Curiously, the first description of this “Wolf-Fox” on record came from Richard Simson, who sailed on the British ship The Welfare in 1690: “We saw foxes twice as big as in England, we caught a young one, which we kept on board for some months.” However, Simson’s ship became engaged in a battle in the first Falklands War in which the Wolf-Fox became the first casualty: deciding a battleship was no fit place for man or beast, the poor creature panicked after the first cannon volley and leapt overboard.

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