40 TERRA DEL FUEGO. 



In the afternoon we visited the shore, and very soon fell in 

 with the natives, who came on board on the day of our arrival. 

 They immediately commenced jumping up and down, which is 

 their mode of expressing friendship. One of them, who had a 

 pair of pantaloons given him, had them tied round his neck, 

 and another had the skirts of his coat cut off; the reason 

 he assigned for doing so was that they were in his way. 

 Their hut was constructed after the manner of that we saw 

 at New Island, and bore quite a neat and comfortable ap- 

 pearance. The ground was swept clean, and in the centre a 

 large fire was burning, over which hung a string of fish. The 

 other articles which it contained were some shells, which were 

 carefully laid upon some clean leaves, and the blanket we had 

 given to the woman on the previous day. They seldom cook 

 their food much. The shell-fish are detached from their shell 

 by heat, and the fish are partly roasted in their skins without 

 being cleaned. It was evident that, notwithstanding our kind 

 treatment to these people, we had not gained their confidence ; 

 for, on seeing us approach the hut, the woman fled with her 

 child, nor could we prevail upon the men to cause her to return. 



As this harbor was not put down on any of the charts in 

 our possession, we believed it to be a discovery, and named it 

 after our ship. 



On the 30th, we once more got under-way, and after a 

 further search of a few hours, we succeeded in finding Orange 

 Bay. Our observations placed it in latitude 55 31' 00" 

 south, and longtitude 68 00' 20" west. It is capacious, 

 easy of access, and better protected from the southwest "winds 

 than any place as yet known on the coast of Terra del Fuego. 

 About a mile from the southern shore are two islands, the 

 largest of which is two miles in length, of a moderate height, 

 and called Burnt Island. The land to the southward is rocky 



