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ship's boat. One forenoon we had between thirty and forty on 

 board. They brought shell and bone necklaces, bows and arrows, 

 with quivers of otter skin, spears, and slings to barter for tobacco, 

 ship-biscuit, and "knives ; and it is worthy of remark that as yet 

 they do not appear to have acquired a taste for intoxicating 

 liquors. The arrow-heads were formed most ingeniously of green 

 bottle-glass. I should much like to see them manufactured; for I do 

 not understand how they are chipped into the required form. The 

 spears are of two forms. The handles of both kinds are formed 

 of tapering poles about eight feet long, and the heads are appa- 

 rently fashioned out of the bones of Cetacea. One is shaped thus 



3 and is apparently employed for harpooning porpoises. It is 



attached by a thong to the spear-handle in such a manner that, when 

 the Cetacean is struck, it becomes detached and leaves the handle 

 floating on the water. The other spear-head is, on the other 

 hand, invariably fixed to the handle, and seems to be employed in 



the capture of Otters. It is barbed in this manner ^ . The 



Indians were most indiscriminate in their desires for what they 

 saw, making signs for our caps, handkerchiefs, watch-chains, &c. 

 (One individual, doubtless of a literary turn of mind, wished to 

 possess himself of Darwin on Domesticated Animals and Plants, 

 which I happened to have in my band I) They laughed and 

 talked a great deal, and favoured us with what we supposed to be 

 national melodies. A small mirror displayed to them excited 

 much astonishment and a certain amount of consternation. On 

 leaving the ship they established themselves on an old camping- 

 place, roofing in some old wigwams, and building a new one. At 

 Fortune Bay I procured several species of fish that were new to 



trifurcatus 



I 



see you remark in the * Flora Antarctica ' that the pale colour of 

 the flower seems to have deceived the older authors with regard 

 to the genus of the plant ; but in the Plate, doubtless by inadver- 

 tence, the entire flower is coloured pale yellow. Now all the spe- 

 cimens I have yet met with (and I have found the plant in nume- 

 rous localities, growing on the mountain-sides in company with 

 Glarioncea magellanica) have a yellow disk, but a snow-ivhite ray. 



