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SPENCER’S JOURNAL 
lung( ?), har shatair . 
intestines, hup a . 
Rain and snow, dark morning. 
June J, Saturday . Grandi and Harry left at 9.30 a.m. 
Dull day with south-west wind. Afternoon at midden with 
Claude. Jean and little Kwan along shore; got excellent skull 
of young Yaghan from mound. Evening cleaning bones. 
June 2, Sunday . Paid George off, Tucker and 100 Chilean 
pesos. It was no good keeping him on, as he was difficult to 
get anything except straightforward things out of. Declined 
to talk on customs; said he did not know. Windy night, 
south-west wind. Most of snow cleared off the hills. Walk 
to middens beyond point in afternoon. 
June 3 , Monday . Dark morning, but cleared up during 
day, and freezing towards late afternoon. Quiet on water. 
Walk in afternoon. Many kelp geese. These come in to 
rivers during winter months, and in summer are away on the 
outer shores. Photographed children of Domingo. George 
not gone yet, and evidently not anxious to leave a ‘soft job’. 
It looks much as if the only way to get anything out of the 
natives nowadays is by giving them drink. 
Claude and Kwan (Yaghan boy) across river to middens; 
only got bone of skull cap, and old broken bone spear-head. 
Old woman, Domingo’s elder wife, says that in olden times 
bodies were burned, which agrees with remnants of large 
fires met with in deeper parts of old middens, three and four 
and five feet down, where also are no shells, or very few, and 
only calcined light-coloured earth. Old woman says bodies 
not burned in more recent years. 
From B (field book). Grandi’s father some years ago de¬ 
tained for one year at Falklands because he had eighteen 
seal skins on board. Much later, only four or five years ago, 
little cutter out from Magallanes secured 800 skins, value 
each, in 20 days, and got away clear, returning by way of 
