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MISS HAMILTON’S JOURNAL 
delight was childish when he would ask again and again for 
more, and the bombilla would be passed from one to the 
other. (The Indians have had so much communication with 
Spanish and Chilean sealers that most of them drink mate 
and smoke cigarettes whenever they can get them.) 
June jo y Sunday . Brilliantly clear day with sunshine for 
about two hours, so the Professor took photographs of the 
Yaghans and their toldos and distributed sweets to the wee 
piccaninnies whom he had watched with great interest and 
surprise early this morning go to a frozen pool near the hut 
to wash. They must have extraordinary powers of resistance, 
as the children walk about in the snow with nothing on their 
feet. The rest of the day he talked with the young Yaghans 
round their camp fire about Cush-pik (spirit part of man). 
He says that the younger generation care little as to their 
past; in fact some of them are rather inclined to be ashamed 
of many of the beliefs of their ancestors. Physically and 
mentally lazy —Quien sabe? (who knows ?) seems to comprise 
their philosophy. The Professor says that the old woman is 
the only one of any use scientifically, but it is going to be 
difficult to get her away. I went with her and the Yaghan 
boy to fish at entrance to cove. The air was decidedly chilly, 
but a large fire in the boat helped to keep us warm. The 
boat was tied up to a kelp plant by hooking it over a rowlock. 
Sitting on an old sheep skin on the floor of the chillana, Juanna 
appeared transformed into a witch—-jabbering Yaghan to the 
fishes as she moved her line gently up and down in the water, 
listening intently meanwhile. Now and then she would softly 
whisper in English, Ah! big fella pass by’, and a second 
later ‘big fella’ would be in her basket. She said that she was 
able to bewitch the fish on to her line and also to come to 
the shore in time of famine, that being the reason why she 
caught them all. She was always fishing and loved it! Her 
age was 59 years. She was short and tremendously billowy; 
