The Log of An Ancient Mariner Being the Life And Adventures of Captain Edgar W
The Log of An Ancient Mariner Being the Life And Adventures of Captain Edgar W
Edgar Wakeman
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The natives had fires burning in these bark canoes, and they all called aloud, "tobac, tobac, " meaning tobacco. We received them on board and gave them everything we could spare, as they were naked and the weather was very cold. The custom among these people when short of food, which consists of dead seals and fishes, or blubbers from the whale, is to take the oldest woman that they happen to have on hand and hold her head over a fire until she is suffocated by the smoke, the young folks all t...he time pinching her throat to hasten the operation ; then they eat her, and console themselves with the thought that The Log of an Ancient Mariner. 127 she was the woman who was of the least use to the tribe, and hence no loss to speak of. An English commander who had been on this station three years told me that they were brutes. We saw many Patagonians ; but they are another race entirely, averaging six feet in height, whereas the Fuegians are only about four feet high. The Patagonians are a race of hunters, and have a tolerably good country to live in.
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