New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-12

them: These were the most ab1ect and mis-
cradle creatures / anywhere Deheid. me nnrn |
generally have otter skin or some sndii scIap
about as large as n pocket handkerchief, winch |
Is barely sufficient to cover their packs. ~ 20 |
laced across the breast by strings, ana accoruns
as the wind blows II IL shifted from slne W STU
In another harhor not far distant. woman VINO
was sucking recently horn child came one gay
alongside the vessel and remained there our vi
moro curiosity while the sleet fell and thaWed on
her naked bosom and on the skin OF her haAe'
baby 800,
THE YAHGANg DWELLINGS.
The Yahgans build huts OF poles with a tha'ci,
NJ hrush and grass, about the shape anu eI|e VI
a haycock Just inside the door iIle 10 naoss
and tho family sduats upon the grass anu Hlo's
that cover the earth floor. TO some eAteh.- di'u
by no means altogether to their auVa aiso9 ~,
the ways OF these people nave peen ,noo .or,,a -,
missionary and white influences pue some Vi
the,r primitive implements excite the duliliIa
tion Of Caucasian observers Iheir aooi is,ra,
axes. with clam shells for blanes' us~u and
FOR telling trees for fashioning harpoons anu
naddIcs for stripping blubber from STRANDED
whales and even for trimming 'nelr , own h Ma,
Hardly less remarkable were 'nSt eNyV9 ~. 80, ,ha
With which the squaws stripped Dnlpels from tme
rocLs ely feet under water. For gathering sneH-
ash IN. sduaws employed baskets OF rusnea,
witch were Of exactly the same shape as tns
Wiz, cooking Jars found in the old ruins and
cave dwellings Of NewMexico and Arizona
The typical weapon OF the Yahsans Is the raw ,N",
hide sling. with when tney sa a. yards To hit
anv bird Mt that distance would be caHen rlshl
good shooting. They can knock DOWN ana sur,
gunnaco with heavy rounu p PEP su ny as as
hundred wards The reason for the SING as
tool Of destruction is found In the fact ,nal 'hs
Yaneans live on the beaches, where PIeh,y VI
round nebhles are always at hano lhese lslaha.
- -, on, oil from whale hlubber and store IL
fo~ future use in the bladder Ike leaves or
kind OF seaweed found everywhere III tnaO fe-
gion. IT,, /, ,ho ono ,rihe
,,htcb inbabits the prairie region or Terra deI
Fuego This great island has inc shape "a q
triangle. and Is almost as larse AZ tne go ia
New-York Once upon a time IL must nave haH
a troncal climate. inasmuch as the bones oi
monkeys and parrots are found FOSSIL mere III
great numbers There Is mucn eNI grnu,ns SIN in
dustry. the Onas being killed OF as tast as
nossible incidentally to the process OF 1ehcIhs
the land Their children ana women n aiJ ,.aSS
tured. when possible. and practically ensIaveu
heng employed as servants at the stations
maintained by the Argentine Government on the
ons irbabit tho mart Of Terra del Fuego which
Magellan first saw and their habit OF signeiiihg
70 one another by means of fires caused inc
famous navigator to call the country iN -
THE HABITS OF THE oNAs
The Onas have no horses. They eat those they
capture from the sheep men. considering horse
meat the greatest Of delicaces Iney oePenu
for food chiefly upon the guanaco' W,icn
abounds in Terra del Fuego. and a kind OF
! prairie squirrel In the chase tney rely Ina. .
upon bows and arrows and the bolas the latter
ends Of hide thongs On being thrown the
| balls divergt in obedience to centrifugal force
and fly round and round in the air untii the
| object Is struck, when the thongs WIND theni-
selves about it, These savaGes can throw the
| bolas so dextrously as to fasten a man 10 ms
| horse The Onas. however. often XIII the guam
| AGO by surrounding bunch and running them
down-so wonderfully fleet of foot are they
John r. Spears. TO whose recently pupIlshed
| work on Cape Horn the writer Is much indeDted'
| saws that the Ona has as poor an apology for
he no a can be found anywhere In the world. A
| saucer-shaped hollow. big enough for bed FOR
| all the family is scooped in the ground. Some
| the weather side is thrown skin or two 10
protect themselves from cold, the inmates or TINS
| externporzed house lie down on the GROUND
| with the children In the midst OF the hudule,
| and then call their dogs to come and lie over
| them 1t is n poverty-3tricken Ona family that
| has not enough dogs to cover II out OF blsht
These people have n curious practice or smuggling
| off their hair, so as to leave sort OF tonsurc
| on the crown. They are remarkabe lor uslIg
| combs made OF whalebone, which are not lound
| elsewhere. 80, "
| For making a fire the Onas carry bits or iron
| ore. which come from an island to the west OF
| Terra del Fucgo. scrap OF mint WIN the or
| and a little dry fungus always kept wrapped in
| a niece of hide or a bladder, enable the Ona 10
| light fire even in rainstorm. Whlskey bottles
| drifted ashore from ships supply the trioe WIN
| oiose tins for reed arrows. The Onas when
| cantured nv whites otherwise in distress, cut
| long and deep gashes In their chests with any
| sharp thing that may be at hand W hen wnlle
| only their bones have been found usually, ana
| these always bore marks of fire and human
| teeth The Onas eat the whites they capture.
| Mr. Spears speaks OF the interesting fact that
| these natives long ago discovered sure and
| sneedy remedy for the chief Ill that savages are
| heir to through association with the whites IN
| 1ecoction of a thorny bush which grows on
| tho Mains known to science as Berberis.
| When Magellan made his winter quarters AT
| Can JuInn in 1920 on his voyage around the
, ,rorld he observed in the neighborhood many
humor footprints OF astonishing size Hence he
naIIed the country Patagonia, from 'patagon.
iarse and clumsy foot. The name Is commonly
onn,ied 70 that portion Of South America lying
hetween the Rio Negro on the north and the
e.ro,t ~ Magellan on the south 1t is an
enormous territory, extending thousand miles
| nnrth and south Very sparsely settled. II Is 10
| a Great extent UNEMPLOYED. Most OF the interior
| "a 1nha hited only by rowing bands OF aborgnes
Tbo Greater part OF Patagonia belongs now to
.rSentina Chill holding by treaty the mountain
ons strip along the Pacific COAST.
REMARKABLE GEOLOGICAL FORMATIONS
The strip presents a very extraordinary geo
| ,oeical formation the mountains risinS 10
height of two miles directly from the plains OF
| the east and the ocean on the west, with myri
| ads of inaccessible SUBMITS and not pass io