Through the heart of Patagonia . e. There is a storv current that the onK white man whohas ever lived in the very primitive dwelling of boughs, whichare all the Onas have to shelter them from a bitter climate, was aScotchman whom the Indians had captured. He was with tlu-mthree weeks, and his face was adorned by a singularly ?•? The Tehuelches are enormously above the Onas of Tierra del Fuefjo in the scaleof civilisation. A Fuegian woman has been known to live in the Tehuelchian tents,but how she came there I am unable to say. On the other hand. 1 have never heardof any Tehuelchc li
Through the heart of Patagonia . e. There is a storv current that the onK white man whohas ever lived in the very primitive dwelling of boughs, whichare all the Onas have to shelter them from a bitter climate, was aScotchman whom the Indians had captured. He was with tlu-mthree weeks, and his face was adorned by a singularly ?•? The Tehuelches are enormously above the Onas of Tierra del Fuefjo in the scaleof civilisation. A Fuegian woman has been known to live in the Tehuelchian tents,but how she came there I am unable to say. On the other hand. 1 have never heardof any Tehuelchc living with the Tierra del Fucgians, and cannot conceive sucha state of things to be possible. But the Tehuelches will mix occasionally with theAraucanian tribes of Northern Patagonia, and intermarriages are common. T08 THROUGH THE HEART OF PATAGONIA crop of orano-e whiskers. The Onas are reported to have amusedthemselves bv pullincr these out in instahnents bv the not some anthropologist base a treatise upon The. BEAUTIES OF TIEKKA IHJ. 11 Artistic Perceptions of the Onas of Tierra del Fuego uponthis occurrence ? The Onas are also a tall people, although not equalling inheight my friends the Tehuelches, and their physical developmentis less conspicuously remarkable. The Ona woman does not, asdoes the Tehuelche china, form an attachment to a white suitor,appearing to have no desires outside her own race and people,but under certain circumstances the women have shared the hearth-stone of the foreigner. Polygamy is allowed and practised amongthem. There is something of the spirit which characterises theGipsy of Europe about this people ; they are quite ready to takeall they can get from the alien, while they at the same time main-tain a bitter rancour against the hand that gives. But this is not,as it is in the case of the Gipsies, the continuance of an original TEHUELCHE METHODS OF HUNTING 109 dislike and implacability, but rather the result of the infamous ill
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