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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...which inhabits the thick forest, and utters very peculiar noises) has not cried ' beware for nothing. They were soon anxious for barter. Money wa? 1834.J POVERTY OF THE INDIANS. 2; scarcely worth anything, but their eagerness for tobacco was something quite extraordinary. After tobacco, indigo came next in value; then capsicum, old clothes, and gunpowder. The latter article was required for a very innocent purpose: each parish hag a public musket, and the gunpowder was wanted for making a ncise on their saint or feast days. The people here live chiefly on shell-fish and potatoes. At certain seasons they catch also, in corrales, or hedges under water, many fish which are left on the mud-banks as the tide falls. They occasionally possess fowls, sheep, goats, pigs, horses, and cattle; the order in which they are here mentioned, expressing their respective numbers. I never saw anything more obliging and humble than the manners of these people. They generally began with stating, that they were poor natives of the place, and not Spaniards, and that they were in sad watit of tobacco and other comforts. At Caylen, the most southern island, the sailors bought with a stick of tobacco, of the value of three-halfpence, two fowls, one of which, the Indian stated, had skin between its toes, and turned out to be a fine duck; and vith some cotton handkerchiefs, worth three shillings, three sheep and a large bunch of onions were procured. The yawl at this place was anchored some way from the shore, and we had fears for her safety from robbers during the night. Our pilot, Mr. Douglas, accordingly told the constable of the district that we always placed sentinels with loaded arms, and not understanding Spanish, if we saw any person in the dark, we should...

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Author:   Professor Charles Darwin
Publisher:   Rarebooksclub.com
Imprint:   Rarebooksclub.com
Dimensions:   Width: 18.90cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.399kg
ISBN:  

9781236669353

ISBN 10:   1236669355
Pages:   218
Publication Date:   11 July 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
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