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TIERRA DEL FUEGO 
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resemble the more northern Indians whom I saw with Rosas, 
but they have a wilder and more formidable appearance : their 
faces were much painted with red and black, and one man was 
ringed and dotted with white like a Fuegian. Capt. Fitz Roy 
offered to take any three of them on board, and all seemed 
determined to be of the three. It was long before we could clear 
the boat ; at last we got on board with our three giants, who 
dined with the Captain, and behaved quite like gentlemen, help- 
PORT FAMINE, MAGELLAN. 
ing themselves with knives, forks, and spoons : nothing was so 
much relished as sugar. This tribe has had so much com¬ 
munication with sealers and whalers, that most of the men can 
speak a little English and Spanish ; and they are half civilised, 
and proportionally demoralised. 
The next morning a large party went on shore, to barter for 
skins and ostrich-feathers ; firearms being refused, tobacco was 
in greatest request, far more so than axes or tools. The whole 
population of the toldos, men, women, and children, were arranged 
on a bank. It was an amusing scene, and it was impossible not to 
