A Scotsman who made the Chilean coast safe for sailors has died. His name was Mr. G. Slight, and ho left Edinburgh for Chile forty-rive years ago. His most famous achievement was the building of a lighthouse on tlio dangerous reef obstructing the. on trance to the Strait of Magellan. This hardy Scot and his Chilean workmen were marooned on the far Southern rocks for three years while constructing this lighthouse, which now warns mariners of some of the most perilous breakers of the Seven Seas.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 93, 17 October 1934, Page 12
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