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"I believe Tierra del Fuego is the only country in the world where a cryptogamic plant affords a staple article of food."

The perfect equality among the individuals composing the Fuegian tribes must for a long time retard their civilization. (p204)

it is truly and wonderful and beautiful to see so great a bird [the condor], hour after hour, without any apparent exertion, wheeling and gliding over mountain and river.

p90 to 94 tells of ethnic cleansing of Argentina around Bahia Blanca... 'women who appear above 20 years old are massacred in cold blood! When I exclaimed this appeared rather inhuman, he answered, "Why?, what can be done? they breed so!' (p91)