A Voyage to 



on the Starboard-fide within ; it look'd a little reddifli, but 

 became clear and good. They alfo wooded there, and faw 

 fome Trees fit to make Top-mafts. The Savages who came 

 \o fee, did them no Harm : They are quite naked, tho' in 

 a very cold Country. Some of them cover their Privities 

 with the Skin of a Bird, and others their Backs with that 

 of fome Beaft, as Froger reprefents thofe of Magellan's 

 ■Streights : They are almoft as white as the Europeans. The 

 S. John Baptifl, commanded by the Sieur de Villemarin y 

 of S. Malo^ reports the fame of thofe they faw in Streight 

 le Maire, in May, 1713. Being becalm' d in the Middle of 

 the Streight, and the Tide having drove him very near the 

 Land, two Piragua's of Savages from Tierra dt\Faego x 

 came aboard : They fliew'd a ftrange Affe&ion for any 

 red Thing, and at the fame Time an extraordinary Bold- 

 nefs'j for the firft of them that came up, fpying a red Cap 

 on the Head of an Officer, who came to receive him, 

 fhatch'd it off daringly, and put it on his Arm ; another 

 feeing the red Comb of the Fowl, tore it off to carry 

 away; they would have taken away an Officer's red 

 Breeches in the Boat: In fliort, they appear'd robuft, better 

 jhaped than the Indians of Chili: The Women they had 

 with them, handfomer, and all of them great Thieves. 

 Their Piragua's were made of the Barks of Trees, few'd 

 together very artificially. They defpis'd all that was offer 'd 

 them to eat, and fliew'd great Dread of the Cannon, near 

 which they made Grimaces like Men in a Fright it is likely, 

 becaufe they had feen fome Ships fire, that put in. In 

 fliort, one of Brunei s Officers told me, that he having fliot 

 a Sea-Gull with his Piece, the Savages all fell down in a 

 Fright. 



About Noon, being to the Eaftward of Valentines Bay, 

 the Tide turn'd againft us, and we could not ftem it with 

 a good Gale at S..W. which afterwards grew boifterous, 

 with fuch dreadful Squ^wls and Gufts, that they brought 

 the Gunwale to, under two Courfes reef 'd > yet it was re- 

 quifite to carry more Sail t<5 turn Cape S. Bartholomew^ 



