. Pacific line guide to South America; containing information to travellers & shippers to ports on the east & west coasts of South America . .•«-- mi. On the Fast coast the natives use a guanaco skinas a cloak ; on the West sealskins are used. Amongr thecentral tribes the men, for the most part, have either anotter skin or a sealskin as a partial protection for the body ; 67 but some arc to be found entirely destitute of exists certainly amongst some of the tribes, andprobably among all. Among the different tribes thereseems to be no Government or chief. They are a thriftless
. Pacific line guide to South America; containing information to travellers & shippers to ports on the east & west coasts of South America . .•«-- mi. On the Fast coast the natives use a guanaco skinas a cloak ; on the West sealskins are used. Amongr thecentral tribes the men, for the most part, have either anotter skin or a sealskin as a partial protection for the body ; 67 but some arc to be found entirely destitute of exists certainly amongst some of the tribes, andprobably among all. Among the different tribes thereseems to be no Government or chief. They are a thriftlesspeople, with no domestic animals excepting dogs ; not givento tilling the ground, and dependent, in the case of thecanoe Indians, on fish and fungus ; in that of the footIndians, on the skilful use of the bow and arrow. Thewhale is a great boon to them, for they feed on the blubberand manufacture the bones into spear heads and otherinstruments of hunting, and make fishing lines of plaitedsinews. Yet these natives could not procure a whale forthemselves, but are indebted to the swordfish for harassingand driving ashore these monsters of the deep
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