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He told us that York Minster had built a large canoe, and with his wife Fuegia, had several months since gone to his own country, and had taken farewell by an act of consummate villainy; he persuaded Jemmy and his mother to come with him, and then on the way deserted them by night, stealing every article of their property.
"One of them, the man, was named Eleparu," answers Chester; adding, "The girl called him so, and the boy too." "I didn't hear that name." "No?" says Henry; "then it must have been before you came up." "Yes," answers young Gancy, "for the officer who took them away called the man York, the boy Jemmy, and the girl Fuegia." "That's so. But how did she ever come to be named Fuegia?"
Nature by making habit omnipotent, and its effects hereditary, has fitted the Fuegian to the climate and the productions of his miserable country. After having been detained six days in Wigwam Cove by very bad weather, we put to sea on the 30th of December. Captain Fitz Roy wished to get westward to land York and Fuegia in their own country.
Captain Fitz Roy originally intended, as before stated, to have taken York Minster and Fuegia to their own tribe on the west coast; but as they expressed a wish to remain here, and as the spot was singularly favourable, Captain Fitz Roy determined to settle here the whole party, including Matthews, the missionary.
He told us that York Minster had built a large canoe, and with his wife Fuegia, had several months since gone to his own country, and had taken farewell by an act of consummate villainy; he persuaded Jemmy and his mother to come with him, and then on the way deserted them by night, stealing every article of their property. Without doubt this was Fuegia Basket.
The American Indians are an interesting nation of aborigines, and in course of an admirable article on their characteristics, habits and present condition, by Dr C. W. Greene, in Chambers's Encyclopædia, it is remarked that "their physical and mental characters are much the same from the Arctic Ocean to Fuegia."
French gave a sigh of relief, while his imagination pictured to him a dissolving view of Polly under similar circumstances. "The Argentine Government is fitting up an expedition," he went on, "to go through the Straits of Magellan and down the east coast of Fuegia with a view of finding out something more exact in regard to the mineral and agricultural resources than has been known hitherto.
The women took much notice of and were very kind to Fuegia. We had already perceived that Jemmy had almost forgotten his own language. I should think there was scarcely another human being with so small a stock of language, for his English was very imperfect. Everything went on peaceably during the three next days whilst the gardens were digging and wigwams building.
"Poor Simeon," she said; "his limited means have stood in the way of such personal research, and then, also, the college holidays are too short for extended trips." "Let him throw over his classes in the cause of science," said Stephen, with excitement. "Why, such a book as Simeon would write after an exploration of Fuegia, let us say would place him among the scientists of the world."
After being left at Woolya, York and Fuegia found their way to the country that they had been taken from farther west; but not until they had stripped their former associate of most of the chattels that had been given him by Captain Fitzroy.
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