88 MARIA VISITS ADVENTURE. May 1827. 
nent by their powerful neighbours, are now called 'Tekeenikas. 
Our knowledge of the names of these two tribes, Alikhoolip 
and Tekeenika, results from Captain Fitz-Roy’s subsequent 
examination of the outer coast of Tierra del Fuego in the 
Beagle (1830). A Cacique, belonging to the nation of the 
Key-yus, told Falkner that he had been in a house made of 
wood, that travelled on the water. A party of the Indians, in 
four canoes, were met on the borders of the Otway Water by 
Captain Fitz-Roy in 1829, whose arms, implements, and every 
thing they had, were precisely like the Fuegian Indians, 
excepting that they had a quiver made from the skin of a deer, 
and were in form a superior race, being both stronger and 
stouter. 
For want of better information upon the subject, we must 
be content to separate the natives into Patagonians and Fue- 
gians. The sealing vessels’ crews distinguish them as Horse 
Indians, and Canoe Indians. 
These people have had considerable communication with 
the sealers who frequent this neighbourhood, bartering their 
guanaco skins and meat, their mantles, and furs, for beads, 
knives, brass ornaments, and other articles; but they are 
equally anxious to get sugar, flour, and, more than all, “ aqua 
ardiente,” or spirits. Upon the arrival of a boat from any 
vessel, Maria, with as many as she can persuade the boat’s 
crew to take, goes on board, and, if permitted, passes the 
night. As soon as our boat landed, Maria and her friends 
took their seats as if it had been sent purposely for them. Not 
expecting such a visit, I had given no order to the contrary, 
and the novelty of such companions overcame the scruples of 
the officer, who was sent on shore to communicate with them. 
Their noisy behaviour becoming disagreeable, they were soon 
conducted from below to the deck, where they passed the 
night. Maria slept with her head on the windlass ; and was so 
intoxicated, that the noise and concussion produced by veering 
eighty fathoms of cable round it did not awake her. The 
following morning, whilst I was at breakfast, she very uncere- 
moniously introduced herself, with one of her companions, and 
