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Title: The story of Captain Cook's three voyages round the world
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Jones, M
Subjects: Cook, James, 1728-1779 Voyages around the world
Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter & Galpin
Contributing Library: Scott - York University Libraries
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s up in.A party of them, including women and children, arrived incanoes made of the bark of trees : every soul of themsmelling so strongly of train oil as to be almost intolerableto the not very fastidious noses of the English, somewhataccustomed, by this time, to what among civilised people isgenerally thought not to be borne. They were armed withbows and arrows, and had also harpoons, of bone, withwhich it was supposed they killed seals and speared fish.Some of them had European knives, gifts of which, andmedals, pleased them highly. The dwellings of these people were wretched structuresof sticks and grass, through which wind, rain, and snowmight have their free way. A few poles set up so asto meet at top, boughs and grass to cover these, with ahole left on one side for door and fire-place, made a Fuegianwigwam, and was not very unlike a bee-hive or haycock ona large scale. A little grass, littered down on the earthenfloor, served for seats and beds ; other furniture, or cooking t-$
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TIERRA DEL FUEGO. 147 utensils, they appeared to have none, with the exception ofa basket to carry in the hand, and a bag or satchel to hangupon the back. Their bows and arrows were well made ;the arrows, more especially, were the neatest Captain Cookhad ever seen, being formed of highly-polished wood, witha bone or flint barbed point. What cruel weapons barbedarrows and spears are! Only think what it must be toget them out again when they have pierced their way intohuman beings! As is often the case in dreary, barren lands, the botanyof this portion of Tierra del Fuego was interesting,and abounding in variety, including beautiful and sweet-smelling flowers; so that again Mr. Foster, the naturalist,had a treat. Among its other productions was a speciesof duck, called by the sailors the racehorse, on accountof the swiftness with which it ran on the surface of thewater, its wings being too short for flying. Christmas Sound was left on the 28th, Cape Horn wasdoubled on the 29th, and at h

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