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which had very nearly cost me my life. I was resolved to eat no
more limpets till we landed, which we did some time after, upon an
island. I then took notice that the Indians brought all their shells
ashore, and laid them above high-water mark. Here, as I was going
to eat a large bunch of berries I had gathered from a tree, for they
looked very tempting, one of the Indians snatched them out of my
hand and threw them away, maldng me to understand that they
were poisonous. Thus, in all probability, did these people now save
my Hfe, who, a few hours before, were going to take it from me for
throwing away a shell."
" One day, we fell in with about forty Indians, who came down
to the beach we landed on, curiously painted.* Our cacique seemed
to understand but little of their language, and it sounded to us very
different from what we had heard before. However, they made us
comprehend that a ship had been upon the coast not far from where
we then were, and that she had a red flag : this, we understood
some time after, to have been the Anna Pink, whose adventures are
particularly related in Lord Anson's voyage ; and we passed through
the very harbour she had lain in."t
• Probably in the neighbourhood of the ' Ester o de Aysen.' in lat,
45° S —R. F.
t No—not through the harbour, but within twent y miles of it, T should
suppose.—R. F.
APPENDIX.
No. 15.
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In the foUowing fragment of a Vocabulary the vowels should be
sounded as in the English syllables, bah, bSt, eel, bSt, I, btt, no, tSp,
rule, biit, hay ; and the consonants as in EngUsh, but giving to kh a
very guttural sound. One Fuegian expression, something like the
cluck of a hen, can scarcely be represented by our letters ; its meaniuK
is " no."
FRAGMENT OE A VOCABTTLAKY OF THE ALIKHOOLIP AND THE
TEKEENICA LANGUAGES.
Also some Words of those spoken by the PATAGOKIAS (TEHDEI.-HET) and
CHONOS INDIANS.
ENGLISH. ALIKHOOLIP. TEKEENICA.
Y kM' ter'sname el'lSparu
Jemmy Button's name o'rundcrnc5.
Fuegia Basket's name yok'ciishlu
Ankle acul'labe tfippalla.
Arm tS'liutm'be car'mlne.
Arm (fore) yuc'caba doiv-ela.
Arrow an'naquil te'acu.
Beads (necklace) acon'ash.
Back tuccaler'khlte am'muckit.
Bark (as a dog) stuck'sta wo'ona.
Basket ka'eklm (or) khato ka'ekhem (or) kiish.
Beads ca'ecol ah'khinna.
Belly kuppiidde
Birch apple a'nsh-khii.
Bird (liltle) tiSw'quS he'ghe.
Bite cck'hiintsh e'taOm.
Black fcal
Blood shiLh'ba shfib'ba.
Baby cos'he yariimate'a.
Boat ath'le watch.
Bone osh'kia ah'tush
Bow kerec-cana why-an'na.
Boy all-walkli yiir-amua.