I0 S SPENCER’S JOURNAL 
Narrows, at 12.30 a.m. on the night of July 13-14? x 9 2 9 - The 
native name of the cove according to Miss Hamilton’s diary is Taka- 
shaka , and its place on the map is near the point marked X. The re¬ 
mainder of the narrative is by Miss Jean Hamilton, who was with 
him when he died, and, with Senor Ken Williams, brought his body 
back to Magallanes. 
Miss Hamilton's Narrative 
June 2g , Saturday . We left Rio Douglas, Isle Navarino, 
at 11 a.m. in a small 2 ton cutter, accompanied by our host 
Senor Ken Williams and his man Enrique. Our destination 
lay through the Murray Channel between Isle Navarino and 
Isle Hoste. This channel contracts at one part into the 
Murray Narrows. After passing through the latter, we put 
into a little cove on Dumas Peninsula, Isle Hoste, called by 
Yaghan Indians Ydkd-shakd (Plate X). 
Here lived an old woman who spoke a little English. We 
hoped to collect her, and take her back with us to our camp 
at Rio Douglas. The idea was to use her as a ‘go-between' 
to communicate with Domingo's old discarded wife who 
spoke only Yaghan, and who was known as the witch of her 
tribe. She had had the honour in the past of strangling or 
finishing off any person thought better out of the way. The 
Professor was most anxious for our visit to be a success. 
The journey took four instead of two hours. The sea was 
rough and stormy with a north-west wind against us. A kind 
of seat in the ‘hold’ in front of the mast was made for us, of 
which I took advantage as it was cold as well as rough. The 
Professor, with only his legs in the ‘hold', cheerily faced the 
weather and the seas we shipped. 
The sun was just setting behind the mountains when we 
arrived at 3 p.m. The bay was frozen over, so we were forced 
to anchor at the entrance to the cove and go ashore in a small 
row boat. Snow covered the landscape. A more lonely 
looking place would be difficult to imagine! From our cutter 
