YORK MINSTER, BEARING S. 66' E. 



CHAPTER X 



Tierra del Fuego, first arrival — Good Success Bay — An account of the Fuegians on 

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

 wam Cove — Miserable condition of the savages- — Famines — Cannibals — 

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

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

 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 will describe our first arrival in 

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

 Diego, and entered the famous Strait of Le Mai re. We kept 

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

 pitable Staten-land was 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 



