A LONGITUDINAL JOURNEY THROUGH CHILE 



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PUNTA ARENAS, ON THE STRAIT OF MAGELLAN 



Punta Arenas (Sandy Point), metropolis of the Strait of Magellan region, is on the mainland, 



facinar Tierra del Fuesro. 



Photographs from Harriet Chalmers Adams 



THEY GAVE TIERRA DEE EUEGO ITS NAME 



It was the smoke from the campfires of the nomadic Alacaluf Indians that caused their 

 region to be called "Tierra del Fuego" (Land of Fire). The Alacaluf s, now practically extinct, 

 wear guanaco-skin garments and anoint their bodies with fish-oil to keep out the cold. 



