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 -   Yet this Doris was certainly not very common; although
I was often searching under the stones, I saw only seven - Page 314
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Yet This Doris Was Certainly Not Very Common; Although I Was Often Searching Under The Stones, I Saw Only Seven Individuals.

No fallacy is more common with naturalists, than that the numbers of an individual species depend on its powers of propagation.

CHAPTER X

TIERRA DEL FUEGO

Tierra del Fuego, first arrival - Good Success Bay - An Account of the Fuegians on board - Interview With the Savages - Scenery of the Forests - Cape Horn - Wigwam Cove - Miserable Condition of the Savages - Famines - Cannibals - Matricide - Religious Feelings - Great Gale - Beagle Channel - Ponsonby Sound - Build Wigwams and settle the Fuegians - Bifurcation of the Beagle Channel - Glaciers - Return to the Ship - Second Visit in the Ship to the Settlement - Equality of Condition amongst the Natives.

DECEMBER 17th, 1832. - Having now finished with Patagonia and the Falkland Islands, I will describe our first arrival in Tierra del Fuego. A little after noon we doubled Cape St. Diego, and entered the famous strait of Le Maire. We kept close to the Fuegian shore, but the outline of the rugged, inhospitable Statenland was visible amidst the clouds. In the afternoon we anchored in the Bay of Good Success. While entering we were saluted in a manner becoming the inhabitants of this savage land. A group of Fuegians partly concealed by the entangled forest, were perched on a wild point overhanging the sea; and as we passed by, they sprang up and waving their tattered cloaks sent forth a loud and sonorous shout. The savages followed the ship, and just before dark we saw their fire, and again heard their wild cry.

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