iiinn (jih'sr i.\ rii/-: i /r/.\//) or r.i/-/-; iionx ii;; 



\\kv tlio.-c cf ilic croiicliiiii:' \\ Inh'-Inilcd luil (lillinili id \\;ilk ;iI(iiil; dh lop of tlu' 



])tariiiii!aii iliai >(|ii,Ut('il liy lichen- hi-dw tli. Wlini (uic nDt a little liiglKT, 



marked rorks oil the rocky |K'aks alioiii lio\ve\er. w liere the unrestricted lasli 



Seward. Alaska, that I \voiidere»l at the of the wind was felt, tlie hraiielies 



reseiiihlance. I >|ient niurh I inie t r\ in<i- dropped down into vinelike rnniiors, 



to ohtain >pecinieii> and did tind a and crept alon<i' for yards over t he face 



hrood of yoiin<;-. hut the oM hjnU ehuleil of the tfraiiite rocks and lioidder> w hich 



me until latt r. littered the niountaiii-sides. Jleiv also 



'^i'lu^ adaptahility (d" tlii' heeches. the \\c>a\\ hiirrous of tlie sea otter and the 



Fewer than a huncircd of the fast disappearing Valigan Indians ol southern South America now 

 remain, and tlie absence of children about their settlement at Rio Douglas. Xavarin Island, is the most 

 noticeable feature to tlie traveler who has seen tlie al)uii(laM<-e of children about otlier Indian villages 



principal tree of the southern forests, 

 was shown here also. One could find 

 within thirty yards trees from thirty 

 feet or more tall down to creeping ones 

 that could not exist if they raised their 

 branches six inches above the granite 

 rocks over which they crept. It was 

 merely a question of location. One 

 could walk along under the trees helow 

 a ridge, hut as he began to get up where 

 the wind from the west swept across, 

 the branches suddenly multiplied and 

 in some places were .so thick that it was 



well-worn trails leading from the water 

 up to them. Although we had seen 

 many shells of the delicious centolla 

 crabs at rocky points where otters had 

 Ijeen feasting, not an animal did we 

 encounter. We enjoyed on several oc- 

 casions the excellent mussels which oc- 

 cur in .-uch abundance in this region, 

 and which in winter probal)ly form the 

 principal diet of the Indians. Cen- 

 tolla crabs we preferred to lobsters, 

 which had been fed to us in abundance 

 on Juan Fernandez Island the vear be- 



