Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-11-05

peciaiiy 80 Of the sheep they steal %
The whites. They drive them Oh in
fiocks Of i've hundred and more, get
them away into the forest aud have q
big feast. They then break the legs
of the shcp remaining and drown ne
there until the chase % the farmfr1 iH
over. when they 80 back Tor another
faf but nov well-rr.tcd feed. They tat
the decaygd flesh ~ stranded whales
nu1 fish which they nnu upon the Fh1rg.
hut. a. u rule. do rot 80 out in canoes
70 fish. a. DO the Yaghtna aud The Ala
oaiufcn. They algo make traps 81
catch game. They use only bows and
arrows ln war and for hunting. The
arrows were originally tipped with
flint, but uuw they are pointed with
pieces u glass made 0W Of the broken
whisky and wine bottles thrown out
by the steamers passing through the
Strait VI Magellan. The ona women
weave very prutty rush baskets q a
which their husbands bring M from The
hunt and sew chem together with sln.
ewu Into robes OF rugs. These onaa. /
am told, have no Great Spirit or God,
like our Indians. JUS what their re-
iRion II I am unable b. learn. They
believe IN p1lyEamy, one man having
several wives. whch he buys % their
fathers at No low price as he can.
ABOUT THE YAOHANs.
Before the whites came here there
were something Ike three thousand VI
the YaEhan Indians. They were de-
Hcrihod 10y sea captains a. a healthy.
hcariy. naked, savage race. 1hf Eng
lluh established mission IN south T.
ezra del FucEo and persuaded them 90
put on clothes. ~ u claimed that with
the wearing Of clothes came cluslinp-
tion and pnnumonhi. and that this has
rpdmcd ghelr number % less than hQQ.
The head " the mirslln among these
Indians u the Rev Thomas iirligyf.
who has b.g sheep fam IN IN south.
lie has an Indian settlement where ,hc
people live Ia houses and whore fhcy
farm on q small scale, The lrflfnA-
tldu I have about these NaEhana crurH
almost entirely from Sir. bridnsa. lie
says they live IN groups " about thirty
families. They are M canftbals. ~
has been charged. ana they d. not eat
raw meat Thor principal hsJd cpu-
niHta " moluskH, ilnh. va calves. birds,
strawberries and fungi. Their women
cook these thlrEH Ia different Ways.
They uuuk birds by placing fhem on
the Goals ana puttlrg red-hgt stones
inside n them. They bake eHu by
breaking a small hole 10 one end and
then standing them uprlFr, in the en-.
round and n1uud 20 make them COX
evenly. They cpuk and eat she blood
of animals. but. a. q rule. eat thuir
vegetables raw. The women are the
fishers aud she men DO the hunting.
The men make canoes, hut the wlmcn
paddle them. They are GOOD boatmrn
and are better uId more fearless swim
mtrs than the men.
one 90 the wonderful things about
the YuEhana u their language. VITA
no means ~ writing, they have a Voc
tahulary OF about 5000 words. Mr.
Bridges, who has made Naghau-En-
gllah dictionary, gives this az the
number, The Eskimo use, u ID said,
less Than 10000 words, and shakes
peafe'a vocabulary contained only a.
900 words There are only 1890 different
words To- the bible. and IN all % Nile
TOMS poems you Will ma less than is,-
600 words / take these hgurya from
John ~. spears book rrccntly pub
hshrd, on "uold Digglnga OF Cape
Horn"
TERRA DEL FUBGo IN 1895.
The Terra del Fu-gJ u the geo.
RraphioH aud encyclopaedia u a drcary
4 land OF snow and Ice. Of glaciers Ani
rocky wastes. lot me tel you what the
! real Trfui del fuegO j.. Aiy tnlprma T.
| lion comes from what have seen ana
| from what have learned from thg men
. who lived upon Il and Who have visited
nearly every par Of H. ~ j. important
90 know, Tor i 10 one % the blnra of
| contention between chile and the ar
| gentlne Republic and IN the war 0hlch
! 9eoms now lmmlrant 10 may he frll-
| vlded. As ID a.. chile owns the Hons
I share OF u, having quietly surveyed
/ the coast and gohhlrd up inr nsiAt Ht
l Magellan before the Argentine know
What she was about, The Arseni,'R, .', to-
/ day think that the Island should belong
10 them, but rather Than haNu a war
| ,hey have conceded an % chile west Of
a line running south " Cape VIRGINS.
] "a the eastern entrance % the STRAIT
| III Magellan. The result n they own
| opiy a footing on the archipelago and
only a small slice Of Terra del Fuego
VTTbbs' arehipelago OF TERRA del Fucgo
| contalns as much hand as Kansas. u
\ h wiidrr from east 90 west than from
| cleveland 20 Chicago and from north o.
srnth n Il longer than from New York
/ 40 I6atnn. Tho archipelago u made ny
| of hundreds uf wooded ISLANDS, most
| IN mountainous, but Few OF when
] have valleys and plans e9Nvl,H WIN
! euirkIy grow fat The largest islands
| ~ mo Archipelago are onlsln, or klng
l S,hsrieS southland, or TERRA del fue-
81 nroper. Drsllatiln Island. which llea
! nesr the western entrance 70 fhe ntFhtH,
an along which ! cuahtcd TOT miles on
,av Vay here. me Isle ~ -. Ives, clnF-
me Isiand and Dawson Island, a IT.
! "a. ,,rfher 10 khe eastward, and the
/ ia,,.' isiands of IlOste and Navarlno on
~ ssuth. Cape Horn itself IL ON one
~ ~. uttie Islands At the bottom OF the
o,chinelaro. The chief island Is TERRA
al Tieg1 proper 10 IL half as big az
| ohio and Il now supports huhaieia ol
| ,s',,,a,nds of sheep. The best lands OF
| ~ e,hisinn part of u have been taken
nj within the past few years under
| i,,se from the Chilean government
mr. Argentine portion Is not 80 well
lifted oWing 10 the difficulty OF access
snd Inc uncertainty as 20 boundary.
run PLAINS AND PAMPAs OF
TERRA DEL FuEdo
san from what can learn the Argen.
~" bsye SOME OF the best lands
NssrIy an OF the southern and eastern
,',rtinns III the island are PLAINS, wide
( itrstch,H Of mo0reland much like
scotland, covered with grass, which Ia
s,,n,mer IL green. but now IN winter
A. turned 10 d redish brown. The other
narts are made up Of mountnlna, val
| icva and plains, Around the west nnd
south coast there IL rim OF noun
! tnins. many OF which rise alnua. pir-
cinltously from the water and which
nr,babiy gave Darwin the ground for
his abatement that there was not a lev.
ii acre OF ground upon the whole island