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Updated: July 6, 2025
A party has been sent inland to procure one or more of these animals, and the boat-voyagers are awaiting its return before continuing their interrupted voyage. Meanwhile, the hospitality shown them by Jemmy Button is as generous as his limited means will allow.
It is a sort of squall with a downward direction, probably caused by the warmer air of the outside ocean, as it passes over the snowy mountains, becoming suddenly cooled, and so dropping with a violent rush upon the surface of the water, which surges under it as if struck by cannon shot. The night is down; but, although it is very dark, the boat-voyagers do not bring in to land.
Above one of the canoes suddenly appears a white disc, seemingly a small flag, not stationary, but waved and brandished above the head of the man who has hoisted it. At sight of the dreaded white the Fuegian symbol of war well may the boat-voyagers experience fear; for, from their former experience, they feel certain that this display must be intended as a warlike challenge.
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