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his memory. " I remember that my mules and dogs, 

 brought from a lower and warmer country, after spending 

 a night on the bleak Cordillera, had the hair all over 

 their bodies as erect as under the greatest terror." He 

 noted that Jemmy Button, the Fuegian, blushed when he 

 was quizzed about the care which he took in polishing 

 his shoes, and in otherwise adorning himself; and this 

 fact long after is fitted into the theory of blushing. 

 Guanacoes in South America, when not intending to 

 bite, but merely to spit their offensive saliva from a 

 distance at an intruder, yet retract their ears as a sign of 

 their anger ; and Darwin found the hides of several 

 which he shot in Patagonia, deeply scored by teeth marks, 

 in consequence of their battles with each other. A party 

 of natives in Tierra del Fuego endeavoured to explain 

 that their friend, the captain of a sealing vessel, was out 

 of spirits, by pulling down their cheeks with both hands, 

 so as to make their faces as long as possible ; and the fact 

 is treasured till it comes in to illustrate the lengthening 

 of features under depression. As if he foreknew that he 

 should want the fact forty years later, he inquired of 

 Jemmy Button whether kissing was practised by his 

 people, and learnt that it was unknown to them. " I 

 remember," he says, " being struck whilst travelling in 

 parts of South America, which were dangerous from the 

 presence of Indians, how incessantly yet as it appeared, 

 unconsciously the half-wild Gauchos closely scanned 

 the whole horizon." "In Tierra del Fuego, a native 

 touched with his finger some cold preserved meat which 

 I was eating at our bivouac, and plainly showed utter 

 disgust at its softness ; whilst I felt utter disgust at my 



