Chapter 23 CHAPTER VII

AMONG THE FUEGIAN INDIANS

Tierra Del Fuego-"The Land of Fire," as Maghelhaens christened it, from the number of beacons exhibited along its coast-is the home of a family of Indians properly known as Pesherahs. Whence they came no one can tell us, though some think them to be of Chilean origin; but they are-and have been, during the last four cen