The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-03-31
.lERRA DEL HELLO Gland of
lce) they should have named it.
those old Spanish navigatOrS

Ice) they should have named IT
those old Spanish navigatOr>
who were the first Europeans
TO see that cold southland. Perhaps
they would have called il that had not
the Yahgans had the habit of com.
municatlng with one another by means
OF signal fires.
We can imagine what II stir was
created among the aboriginal inhab-
itantS of the Fuegian archipelago
when they first behpld a fulI-riggrd
ship with ITS great white sails gliding
into their horizon from realms they
knew not of, says Edward AlbcS i'm
the Bulletin of the Pan-Amrrican
Union
The first To see 1t doubtless grew
alarmed. They FASTENED Ia build "a
fire on some high point Ia signal 9th
ers of their kind. There WIS hurry
Ing and scurrying toward The SpaShorr
other signal fires were kndlcd-
from point 10 point the news was
flashed by fires AT night and smoke
by day-an important thing had hap
pened; and fire was the wireless
telegraphy of the FucgianS. YahganS
signaled to YahganS: the OnaS saw
the fires and they. too. became alarmed
and started their fires. They were
farther inland, were hunters. and
roamed the forests and graSS-c0vercd
prairies and were many. Even the
other canoe Indians. the AlaculoofS,
doubtless saw the fires and wondered
what could the matter be. To the
navigating Spaniards these pyrotech-
MICS were also Il source of wonder.
The whole land seemed To be dotted
with blazing fires, so "Tierra del Fue-
GO seemed To them most apprOpri-
ate name-and Land of Fire" II has
been since in every tongue of the civ
ilized world. notwithstanding that 1t
Is prominently the reverse.
Cold, But Beautiful.
Cold-but in parts beautiful beyond
comparison. Naturally ones opinion
or city or section of country visited |
is often colOred by his first impress
sions. These impressions in the case !
favorable, owing perhaps to the sea-
son OF the year and the exceptionally |
line weather when he viewed this out |
0f-the-way corner of the world. At .
any rate, he will never forget the
scenic wonders encountered On a trim
through the Strait of Magellan. and
especially of that section of the Fue-
gian archipelago which borders on
Magdalen sound. an arm of the strait
which stretches almost directly south
from the elbow formed by Cape Fro
ward, the southernmost tip of the
South American mainland
1t was during the first days of April
early autumn in the southern regions
or South America-when we steamed
into the Strait of Magellan at its Pa
chic end. We were en- route TO Punta
Arenas, and the captain of the vessel
had kindly consented To give lis
near view of famed Mount Sarmiento.
which meant a detour Of some seventy
miles down into Magdalen sound. II
Is just where the sound and Cockburn
channel meet at almost right angle
that this ice-clad eminence known ms /,
the Mountain King of the Southern ,,
most Andes" dominates scene of
beauty.
We had passed between Clarence is d,
land on the western and Dawson is
land on the eastern side of the sound :
when we finally floated into what ap-
peared to be landlocked bay. All ,
about us were cliffs and crags and
peaks and there. Just ut
The southeast corner Of the bay. stand
ng like glistening monument whose
cap was hidden I'm the circling wreotbs
OF vapor and of cloud, we saw Sar- r
Maonificence Of sarmiento. =
The vessels engines were stopned !
md we drifted close to the foot of <
he great mountain that lifts its peaks 81
ome 1000 feet or more into the mists =,
Dove 1t. From its rugged sides two +,
'reat glaciers, the deep blue Of the II
&c shimmering through the thin crusts h,
Il snow. came down almost to the o-
'ater's edge. while from lesser noun a
a a,ns crosse Gould SERBIA , g. al
=. ,lSslcw-moving rivers of solid ice. 4 m
he sun was sinking low, its rays paint on
The Vast Pampas. 10,