The sun., 1894-10-14
A CAPB HORN MISSION.
What CiVlNing Has Done For
The Yahgsn Indians.
NAKED, HARDY SAVACES,
Changed to ListIess Rag.
amuffins, Perlshing
from the Earth.

were mnsaacred-tshuhtn EIrrt
settlement GO stay Yahgnns Learn
Fnrming .nd Book. Bettmrs-Induce-
~,ents 20 Indu-try-.Iimmy Buttons, the
Accomplished TnhEnn DcmorniizinE
Erect on the Indian- OF Adopting the
white Mans Clothes, Diet, and As-ocis-
tious-This Once strosg. Numerous Tribe
Now Bat y sIckiy, Dependant Remnant.
The reader who has at hand a good modern
map Of South America will find on looking
along the narrow channel that bounds the south
aide Of TERRA del Fuego tiny settlement
named Ushusia. On some maps the settlement
is located on Navarin Island, south of the chan
nel but the proper place for IL is on n small bay
that indents TERRA del Fuego just east Of the
line between Chile and Argentine territory.
The settlement is, in fact, an Argentine capital.
the seat OF the Government OF the Argentine be-
loneings lying south Of the Straits OF Magellan.
Ushuaia, as white mans capital. will DO de-
scribed at another time. In It's earliest days the
settlement was missionary station, containing
only single log hut, the home of the first Chris
tian who succeeded in gaining foothold among
the Indians OF the Cape Horn region, and It is
my purpose here to tell, rs briefly as possible,
the true story Of this Cape Horn mission.
THE Sun has already told something about
the supposed as well as the real characteristics
of the remarkable people, the Yahgans who
were indigenous to the region their apparent
squalid wretchedncss when, In TACT they were
actually comfortable and living in the enjoy
ment OF some OF the highest pleasures known
to civilized peoples. II Is therefore necessary
for the reader to shut out from his mind about
all the real facts concerning them and think
only of what they seemed to be IL he would fully
appreciate the spirit and intent of the founders
of the mission to the YahRans. 1t must be re-
membered that the region was supposed to be
bleak and desolate, that frightful storms fol-
lowed each other In swift succession, that the
cold was often intense in midsummer, and that
In the midst OF these terrors Of nature lived
tribe Of savages so low in the human scale that
tney uio not know enough 10 ouiid houses TO
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