VI 
PREFACE 
Bourne, Prof. E. B. Poulton, Dr. F. A. Dixey, Mr. J. A. R. 
Munro, Dr. J. G. Milne, Prof. A. Thomson, Mr. J. Ford, 
Prof. S. J. Hickson, Dr. A. Mumford, Dr. J. Cohen, 
Mr. H. B. Gray, Mr. Alfred Robinson, and many others, 
especially Miss Jean Hamilton, who made copies of the 
majority of the letters which were used in the Memoir. 
As to the Journals themselves, the main part of the narra¬ 
tive is from a large quarto exercise book into which Sir 
Baldwin Spencer copied his field notes up to June 28, 1929. 
This is referred to as A in the footnotes. Beside this, there 
is supplementary material in a small field book of uncorrected 
rough notes, called B in the narrative, and this small book 
continues the diary up to July 3. The greater part of this 
small book, from June 28 to July 3, has been transcribed by 
Sir James Frazer, together with other notes of Anthropo¬ 
logical interest from both journals. From July 3 until the 
time of his death and burial, the entries are from a small 
private diary in the possession of Spencer’s daughter, Mrs. 
Young, and from the diary of Miss Jean Hamilton, who, 
with Senor Tekenica Williams, was with him when he died 
at Hoste Island, and brought his body to Magallanes for 
burial in the face of great difficulties, including the rebellion 
of a superstitious crew, and a series of the worst storms in 
the recent history of the Horn. 
As many of the sketches were in ordinary ink or pencil on 
lined paper, and scattered about the text, it was necessary to 
re-draw them, or otherwise prepare them for publication. 
Mr. Henry Balfour kindly undertook the drawing of the 
Yaghan and Patagonian implements, comparing the mne¬ 
monic sketches with the original specimens, and the five 
plates of line-drawings with the accompanying description 
are his work. Dr. L. H. Dudley Buxton prepared a map and 
attended to the reproduction of the panoramic drawing, 
and Mr. B. W. Tucker, besides identifying some of the 
