The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-10-07

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| IN the right hand and away the man goes swing
| lrs the two free balls about his head.
A every one Knows. the bolna are thrown 20
A. 20 fall about the neck and legs OF the guanano
or the ostrich and 20 tanqle him up till he rolls
end over end on the ground
The tourist. n he be q GOOD horsemsp, may
ride cut A. Rio Callsgos or at santa Cruz and
see the bolss useti. but he had better not try to
nae them himself They have a fashion Of
vbachInq the tepderfoot In the back Of the
head and knocking him from the horse.
Not many tourists would care for the cast
iron bola from England. but the old -fnsh loned
indian bola was different. with patient labor
the red desert man worked at = piece Of the
heaviest stone he could And until he had worn
II down TO a perfect sphere "a inches in diane
ter Then he worked a groove q quarter Of an
inch deep around IL, and IL was ready to receive
a slender cord OF sinew. Let the tourist who
finds one keep Il carefully, for none Is made in
these days.
Then there are shells Of beautiful colors and
fnrms which the tourist can gather for himself,
together with feathery white seaweed, and, II
he have good luck. he may find In ono of the per-
pendiculsr alluvial banks which the people
there cali berrancas, something more interest
ing still the petrified remains Of the kangaroo,
the opossnn, the monkey. and possibly other anil
-
tropical sky where n, W the weather varies be-
tween that OF New York day early in March
and another very late In November. saw an
Italian naturalist who had found the remains OF
two birds which, he said, were different from
any birds ever yet discovered, and belonged TO
that period OF history when birds had teeth and
were lust beginning to grow feathers on their
bat-like wings
In making a collection of shells, the tourist
would probably wonder how 10 happened that
very pretty musssl shell found in New Gulf,
Port Desire and the Straits of Magellan should
be almost entirely absent at Santa Cruz. And II
he did not include an antediluvian oyster shell,
say ifteen inches long. in this collection, II
would be for lack of room and not because the
bivalve was not interesting.
At Punta Arenas and at Ushuala q new class
of curios appears the product of the Cape Horn
region. Most prominent among these are rugs
of mingled otter skins. of seal fur and swans
down The snow white down beside the dark
fur is so beautiful that few. indeed. can resist
the desire to buy in spite of tho high prices
asked. lovelier present for q dainty sweet
heart could scarcely be imagined.
Though less beautiful, the basket woven from
PUSHES by the fahgan Indians-a pear-shaped
affair to hold from two to four gallons-would
DO more interesting to the tourist who IN
Indians Of TERRA del Fuego from pieces of glass
bottles that have been cast over from Cape Horn
ships are equally interesting. The bows and
arrows are not Of form to attract special at
tention, except that the arrows are very Light.
One wonders how such weapon could pierce a
guanaco or lone prospector. as they are said
to do. That the arrow points are usually q gen.
uine Indian product presume there In no doubt,
though the Tehueiches Of Patagonia can make
glass arrow head. But one hnds so many new
bows on sale In Punta Arenas, bows that show
the mark Of jackknife. too. that doubt Ia
thrown over the whole collection.
The onas too are continually at war with tho
vhites> The two races 60 hunting each other
with considerable success on both sides. The
whites, Of course, capture some bows and ar
rows, but they do not usually bring them In as
trophies. The whites OF TERRA del Fuego are
sheep herders or gold diggers. who do not want
TO be bothered with such stun. Besides, bows
from the battlefield are never new and clean.
nor do they show marks or tackknife.
Like the Eskimos Of the west coast of Green
land, the Yahgans of the Cape Horn region
have learned that the whites will buy curios,
and they supply the market by making models
of their canoes and weapons At first thought
q model Of either 10 an abomin to one who
has q proper love of specimens Of aboriginal
really good exhibits Of what the Indian can do,
and they are usually Of such perfect form as to
portray in q convenient size for handling tho
articles used by the natives In their daily lives
The weapons of full size may readily be had-I
saw offered for sale one spear roeking with the
blood of bird the Indian had Just slain, but
In place Of canoe the tourist may very well DO
content with a model.
Gold dust can be had at both Punta Arenas
and Ushuais, while Storek eeper Figne of Ush-
unia commonly has nuggets as well as dust,
The TERRA del Fuego gold Is very pure, and the
usual way Of buying Is TO exchange British
for It's weight In dust-a very good
trade for the buyer
Tho scenery along the Patagonia coast, and
until one has passed the first narrows In Magel-
Ian Strait, Is not likely to please the ordinary
tourist. At every point one finds steep alluvtal
bluffs or rounded hills and ridges, with wide
arid mesas above and beyond that are
,f dull colors and without variety.
there Is a something about
The desert that fascinAtes the lover of