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FUEGIAN CANOES. Straits of Magellan. 
the half-grown young she could carry, staying her appetite meanwhile 
with such raw eggs as could be found. Another woman was busy at the 
characteristic occupation of baling, for all Fuegian canoes leak, not 
being dugouts, but made of the roughest of native-hewn slabs lashed 
together with tough vines or rootlets and caulked with mosses. A third 
woman and a child seemed to be warming food over a fire and inci- 
dentally warming their own nearly naked bodies. The party had no 
knives and borrowed one of ours to cut up their meat. 
Their backs were partly protected by guanaco skins, tied around 
their necks with the hair side out. These primitive capes were not 
otherwise fastened and, when the hands were in use, left the body quite 
exposed to the wind. None of the canoe Indians that we saw had more 
clothing, except in a few cases where they used portions of cast-off sailor 
clothes, and none fastened their fur capes about the body with so much 
as a string. 
There is always a low fire burning on a bed of earth in the bottom 
of the Fuegian canoe wherever it may be met with, making possible the 
serving en route of smoked cormorant and baked mussels, but the indi-. 
cations did not always point to that use of the fire, some of the food at 
least being eaten raw. It is doubtless necessary for these wandering 
shellfish gatherers to maintain a permanent camp fire; to ght it anew 
on their rain-saturated shores must tax their ingenuity to the utmost. 
A eareful search of the canoes revealed neither flint nor matches, and 
the Fuegian has no pockets. ‘This was our first meeting with the canoe 
Indians. Later we encountered them among the western channels, but 
never more than two canoes could carry. They were always eager to 
come aboard the ship and to trade their bone-pointed spears, bows and 
