﻿NATIVES 
  OF 
  TIERRA 
  DEL 
  FUEGO. 
  167 
  

  

  seen 
  from 
  the 
  Siberian 
  Headlands.* 
  This 
  

   farther 
  land 
  has 
  never 
  yet 
  been 
  trodden 
  by 
  

   civilized 
  Man 
  ; 
  and 
  if 
  he 
  ever 
  does 
  reach 
  it, 
  

   he 
  will 
  thus 
  probably 
  find 
  it 
  occupied 
  by 
  

   men 
  who 
  may 
  have 
  forgotten 
  how 
  and 
  

   whence 
  their 
  fathers 
  came. 
  

  

  And 
  now 
  let 
  us 
  pass 
  to 
  the 
  other 
  ex- 
  

   tremity 
  of 
  the 
  great 
  Continent 
  of 
  America— 
  

   to 
  Cape 
  Horn, 
  and 
  to 
  the 
  Island 
  off 
  it, 
  which 
  

   projects 
  its 
  desolate 
  rocks 
  into 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  

   most 
  inhospitable 
  climates 
  in 
  the 
  world. 
  The 
  

   inhabitants 
  of 
  Tierra 
  del 
  Fuego 
  are 
  perhaps 
  

   the 
  most 
  degraded 
  among 
  the 
  races 
  of 
  man- 
  

   kind. 
  How 
  could 
  they 
  be 
  otherwise? 
  " 
  Their 
  

   country/* 
  says 
  Mr. 
  Darwin, 
  " 
  is 
  a 
  broken 
  

  

  * 
  See 
  letter 
  in 
  the 
  Times 
  of 
  December 
  30, 
  1867, 
  from 
  

   Captain 
  Sherard 
  Osborne. 
  

  

  