THE FUEGIAN. 



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TIERRA DEL FUEGO. 



signs and expressions are less intelligible to us than those 

 of the domesticated animals; men who do not possess the 

 instinct of those ani- 

 mals, nor yet appear 

 to boast of human rea- 

 son, or at least of arts 

 which result from that 

 reason. I do not be- 

 lieve it is possible to 

 describe or paint the 

 difference between 

 savage and civilized 

 man. It is the differ- 

 ence between a wild 

 and a tame animal (only greater, because in man there is a 

 greater power of improvement) ; and part of the interest in 

 beholding a savage is the same which would make every 

 one desire to see the lion in his desert, the tiger tearing his 

 prey in the jungle, or the rhinoceros wandering over the 

 wild plains of Africa. 



THE RHINOCEROS. 



THE FUEGIAN". 



THE Fuegians of Good Success Bay are a very different 

 race from the stunted, miserable wretches farther westward ; 

 and they seem closely related to the famous Patagonians 

 of the Strait of Magellan. Their only garment consists of 

 a mantle made of guanaco skin, with the wool outside. This 

 they wear just thrown over their shoulders, leaving their 



