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Ticrra del Fuego, first arrival — Good Success Bay — An accriunt of llie Fucgians on 

 board — Interview witli the savages — Scener)- of tfie forests — Cape Horn — AVig- 

 warn Cove — Miserable condition of tlie savages — Famines — Cannibals — 

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

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

 Glaciers — Return to the ship — Second \isit in the Ship to the Scttlenient-- 

 Equality of condition amongst the natives. 



TIERRA DEL FUEGO 



December ijt/i, 1832. — Ha\'ing" now finished with I'ataq'onia 

 and the Falkland Islands, I will tlcscribe our first arri\al in 

 Ticrra del Fucgo. A little alter nnon wc doubled Cajjc St. 

 Diego, and entered the famous Strait of I.e IVIairc. We kept 

 close to the F'ucgian shore, but the outline of tlie rugged, inhos- 

 pitable Statcn-laiid WTts \isible amidst the clouds. In the after- 

 noon we anchored in the 15a)' fif Good Success. While entering 

 we were saluted in a manner becf)ming the inliabitants ol this 

 savage land. A group of h'ucgians, parti)- concealed b\- tjie 

 entangled forest, were perchetl on a wih.l ixm'iU overhanging tlie 



