-
Exploring Expedition came in
contact with the
Fuegians in 1839. One
member of the
expedition called the
Fuegians the "greatest
mimics I ever saw." The Selk'nam...
- to the
other Fuegians Darwin met when the
Beagle reached their native lands.
Darwin described his
first meeting with the
native Fuegians in the islands...
- The
Fuegian dog, or
Yahgan dog, or
Patagonian dog (Spanish:
perro fueguino,
perro yagán,
perro patagónico), is an
extinct type of canid. Its ancestry...
-
trade her for a
stolen boat. He
later decided to take her and
three other Fuegians, "York Minster", "Boat Memory", and "Jemmy Button", to
England where they...
-
other Fuegians, did not have any
concept of God or Devil. In The
Descent of Man, he
suggests that
Button never understood the plan to
convert Fuegians to...
- an able
commander and
meticulous surveyor. In one
incident a
group of
Fuegians stole a ship's boat, and
FitzRoy took
their families on
board as hostages...
- and is
difficult given the
minimal number of
native speakers remaining.
Fuegians Yámana at
Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
Qawasqar at
Ethnologue (25th ed....
- The
Fuegian snipe (Gallinago stricklandii) also
known as the
cordilleran snipe, is a
small stocky wader. It
breeds in south-central
Chile and Argentina...
- The
Southern Fuegian Railway (Spanish:
Ferrocarril Austral Fueguino (FCAF)) or the
Train of the End of the
World (Spanish: El Tren del Fin del Mundo)...
- The
Fuegian steamer duck (Tachyeres pteneres) or the
Magellanic flightless steamer duck, is a
flightless duck
native to
South America. It
belongs to the...
