YOKK MINSTER, BEARING S. 66" E. 



CHAPTER X 



Tierra del Fuego, first anrival — Good Success Bay — An account of the Fueglans on 

 board — Interview with the savages — Scenery of the forests — Cape Horn — Wig- 

 wam Cove — Miserable condition of the savages — P^amines — Cannibals — 

 Matricide — Religious feelings — Great gale — Beagle Channel — Ponsonby Sound 

 — Build wigwams and settle the Fuegians — Bifurcation of the Beagle Cliannel — 

 Glaciers — Return to the ship — Second visit in the Ship to the Settlement — 

 Equality of condition amongst the natives. 



TIERRA DEL FUEGO 



December lyth, 1832. — Having now finished with Patagonia 

 and the Falkland Islands, I ^\■ill describe our first arrival in 

 Tierra del Fuego. A little after noon we doubled Cape St. 

 Diego, and entered the famous Strait of Le Maire. \\q kept 

 close to the Fuegian shore, but the outline of the rugged, inhos- 

 pitable Staten-land w^as visible amidst the clouds. In the after- 

 noon we anchored in the Bay of Good Success. While entering 

 we were saluted in a manner becoming the inhabitants of this 

 savage land. A group of Fuegians, partly concealed by the 

 entangled forest, were perched on a wild point overhanging the 



