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The Fuegian Indians
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Savage and civilized
On a sunny January morning in 1833, through one of the Southern Channels of Tierra del Fuego, a British vessel sails alongside a smaller boat. The natives of the area, through screams and smoke, quickly communicate with each other the novelty, and dozens of canoes with hundreds of natives emerge to observe the peculiar event. Curious and friendly for the most part, somewhat aggressive at times, they observe the smallest boat approaching the shore with three Fuegians (two men and one woman) returning to their homeland after almost a year in London. To the surprise of their compatriots, who receive them almost naked, these three Fuegians dressed in European clothes, with short hair, speak Engl...
Fuegians
Aborigines, Bushmen, and Fuegians are among the best documented of the world's hunter-gatherers. I have summarized the best informed sources on the intact ways of life of these three peoples to determine what they had in common before they separated around 50,000 years ago and went to the ends of the earth in the southern hemisphere. The traits they retained provide a basis for reconstructing what all peoples had in common before leaving Africa and beginning to settle three continents that previously had no human inhabitants.Two Fuegian tribes, the Yahgan and the Ona, were at similar stages of development, but their ways of life differed considerably. Both preferred meat, but the Yahgan had ...
Fuegians
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Fossils, Finches, and Fuegians
A narrative account of Darwin's historic four-year voyage on the Beagle to South America, Australia and the Pacific in the 1830s. This biography examines the scientific research that occupied Darwin during the voyage.
