which was ten yards long. The ihells that compofed it were of feveral iizes^ the
largeft, about the fize of a damafcene ftone, were placed at one end, from whence
they gradually leifened to the other end of the firing, where the ihells were not
bigger than a pepper com. The larger ornaments are worn about their waifts.
Many of both fexes were painted with white, red, and brown, colours, in different
parts of their bodies j and had alfo various dotted lines pricked on their faces. The
women wear a flap of fkin tied round their loins; and have alfo a fmall ftring round
each ancle: they carry their children on their backs, and are generally employed
in domeftic drudgery.
Thefe poor Indians live in a village [fee pi. II.] on the fouth fide of the bay,
beliind a .hill ; the number of their huts is about thirteen, and they contain near
fifty people, who feem to be all the inhabitants of this dreary part of the ifland,
where it is veryicolcli even in the midft of fummer.
Their huts are made of the branches of trees, covered with guanica and feat
fkins>5 and, at beft, are but wretched habitations for human beings to dwell in.
Their food is the flefh of feals and fhell-fifh, particularly mufcles, of which we
have foen fome very large.
They life bows and arrows with great dexterity. The former are made of a
fpecies of wood fomewhat like our beech ; and the latter of a light yellow wood
feathered at one end, and acuated at the other with pieces of clear white chryftal*
chipped very ingenioufly to a point. [‘See pi. XXVI. fig. 26.]
There are flogs-upon this ifland two feet high, with fharp ears.
Having feen feveral rings and buttons upon the natives, we concluded that they
f f i i l have had fome communication with (he Indians in the Streights of Magellan j
hut they appeared to be unacquainted with Europeans.
The Bay’ of Good Succefs is about three miles in extent, from eaft to weft .; two
miles in breadth; is defended from ea# winds by Staten-land. Near the fhore it is
very