Isla de Flores

The British-born U.S. minister George Pegler recounts a short visit in about 1811 or 1812, along with the rest of the crew of the British Navy frigate Horatio.

Our custom was to land before daylight and imitate their barking, when they would invariably leave their lair where they had spent the night and make a rush for the water.

I made myself a suit of outer garments, and picked up enough clippings of different colors to make my mother a carpet eight or ten feet square.

Joshua Percy, captain of the Horatio and son of the Duke of Northumberland, succeeded in shooting the sheep on the crew's last day on the island.

[2] Isla de Flores has a historic lighthouse, which was the subject of an 1819 treaty, by which Uruguay lost the Misiones Orientales.