CHAP. X.] SETTLEMENT AT WOOLLYA- 221 
great surprise, to be streaming with perspiration at undergoing 
such a roasting. ‘They seemed, however, very well pleased, and 
all joined in the chorus of the seamens songs: but the manner 
in which they were invariably a little behindhand was quite 
ludicrous. 
During the night the news had spread, and early in the morn- 
ing (28d) a fresh party arrived, belonging to the Tekenika, or 
Jemmy’s tribe. Several of them had run so fast that their noses 
were bleeding, and their mouths frothed from the rapidity with 
which they talked ; and with their naked bodies all bedaubed with 
black, white,* and red, they looked like so many demoniacs who 
had been fighting. We then proceeded (accompanied by twelve 
canoes, each holding four or five people) down Ponsonby Sound 
to the spot where poor Jemmy expected to find his mother and 
relatives. He had already heard that his father was dead; but 
as he had had a “dream in his head” to that effect, he did not 
seem to care much about it, and repeatedly comforted himself 
with the very natural reflection—‘“‘ Me no help it.” He was not 
able to learn any particulars regarding his father’s death, as his 
relations would not speak about it. © 
Jemmy was now in a district well known to him, and guided 
the boats to a quiet pretty cove named Woollya, surrounded by 
islets, every one of which and every point had its proper native 
name. We found here a family of Jémmy’s tribe, but not his 
relations: we made friends with them; and in the evening they 
sent a canoe toinform Jemmy’s mother and brothers. The cove 
was bordered by some acres of good sloping Jand, not covered 
(as elsewhere) either by peat or by forest-trees. Captain Fitz 
Roy originally intended, as before stated, to have taken York 
Minster and Fuegia to their own tribe on the west coast ; but as 
* This substance, when dry, is tolerably compact, and of little specific 
gravity: Professor Ehrenberg has examined it: he states (Konig Akad. der 
Wissen: Berlin, Feb. 1845) that it is composed of infusoria, including four- 
teen polygastrica, and four phytolitharia. He says that they are all inha- 
bitants of fresh-water; this is a beautiful example of the results obtainable 
through Professor Ehrenberg’s microscopic researches; for Jemmy Buttor 
told me that it is always collected at the bottoms of mountain-brooks. It is, 
moreover, a striking fact in the geographical distribution of the infusoria, 
which are well known to have very wide ranges, that all the species in this 
substance, although brought from the extreme southern point of Tierra del 
Fuego, are old, known fo. ms, 
