Outing . given an English name by themissionaries, in place of the euphoniouspicturesque ones bestowed upon them bytheir parents, usually signifying the placewhere they were born. They were influ-enced, too, to disuse and forget the oldname, which it was feared recalled theirformer pagan condition and of my four Yahgans I knew by theEnglish appellations of James and Bert,another Yagaashagan, and the fourth Ido not recall. It was with much reluctance thatJames agreed to go, and then with theunderstanding that we should cross Bea-gle Channel well before we reachedMussels Bay, to
Outing . given an English name by themissionaries, in place of the euphoniouspicturesque ones bestowed upon them bytheir parents, usually signifying the placewhere they were born. They were influ-enced, too, to disuse and forget the oldname, which it was feared recalled theirformer pagan condition and of my four Yahgans I knew by theEnglish appellations of James and Bert,another Yagaashagan, and the fourth Ido not recall. It was with much reluctance thatJames agreed to go, and then with theunderstanding that we should cross Bea-gle Channel well before we reachedMussels Bay, to which I agreed. Oninquiring of the missionary the reason, heunwillingly told me that a few monthsbefore James was camping in an out-of-the-way inlet, just off Murray Narrows,on Hoste Island, with an Alaculoop andhis wife. One day, without any apparentcause, James fired his shotgun _ point-blank at the Alaculoop, blowing his headoff. The woman escaped in her canoeand, after James left, buried the body and. THE GREAT GLACIER IN NORTHWEST ARM, WHOSE FALLING BERGS SEND GREAT WAVES ROCKING ACROSS TO THE OTHER SHORE, A MILE AND A HALF AWAY. paddled two days journey to MusselsBay, where she had friends. Though the Yahgans are withoutchiefs and are scattered much of the timein the hunt for food, yet they have cer-tain fundamentals of government. Thecoming of the woman and her charge were insufficient evidence, so, launchingtheir canoes, they paddled way down toHoste Island and verified her story. Then, as it is the Fuegian custom forthe friends and relatives to take blood re-venge, James became a marked man, andhe naturally had compunctions against IO THE OUTING MAGAZINE passing along the coast occupied by theMussels Bay tribe. It was a beautiful morning when wepulled out of the Rio Douglas, and thesun gave a welcome warmth to the chillyair of regions which have recorded prac-tically a whole year of unpleasantweather and storm. We rounded itsnorthern entrance and passed through anarro
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