CONTENTS.
PAGE
CHAPTER I.
AFTER CAPE HORN GOLD 1
CHAPTER II.
THE CAPE HORN METROPOLIS 27
CHAPTER III.
CAPE HORN ABORIGINES 47
CHAPTER IV.
A CAPE HORN MISSION 79
CHAPTER V.
ALONG-SHORE IN TIERRA DEL FUEGO 107
CHAPTER VI.
STATEN ISLAND OF THE FAR SOUTH 137
CHAPTER VII.
THE NOMADS OF PATAGONIA 151
CHAPTER VIII.
THE WELSH IN PATAGONIA 168
CHAPTER IX.
BEASTS ODD AND WILD 183
CHAPTER X.
BIRDS OF PATAGONIA 201
CHAPTER XI.
SHEEP IN PATAGONIA 215
CHAPTER XII.
THE GAUCHO AT HOME 228
CHAPTER XIII.
PATAGONIA'S TRAMPS 250
CHAPTER XIV.
THE JOURNEY ALONG-SHORE 260
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
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MAP OF THE CAPE HORN REGION _Frontispiece_
GOLD-WASHING MACHINES. PARAMO, TIERRA DEL FUEGO 14
PUNTA ARENAS, STRAIT OF MAGELLAN 30
YAHGANS AT HOME(1) 48
THE MISSION STATION AT USHUAIA(1) 92
USHUAIA, THE CAPITAL OF ARGENTINE TIERRA DEL FUEGO(1) 108
AN ONA FAMILY(1) 128
ALUCULOOF INDIANS(1) 134
GOVERNMENT STATION AT ST. JOHN. (FROM A
SKETCH BY COMMANDER CHWAITES, A.N.)(1) 138
A TEHUELCHE SQUAW(1) 158
TEHUELCHES IN CAMP(1) 166
GAUCHOS AT HOME 228
AMONG THE RUINS AT PORT DESIRE, PATAGONIA 270
SANTA CRUZ, PATAGONIA(1) 276
THE GOVERNOR'S HOME AND A BUSINESS BLOCK IN
GALLEGOS, THE CAPITAL OF PATAGONIA(1) 282
Note 1: Reproduced by permission of Charles Scribner's Sons, from an
article, by the author of this book, in Scribner's Magazine, entitled
"At the end of the Continent."
THE GOLD DIGGINGS OF CAPE HORN.
CHAPTER I.
AFTER CAPE HORN GOLD.
If any of the readers of this book have an unrestrainable longing for
wild adventure, with the possibility of suddenly acquiring riches thrown
in as an incentive to endurance, let them pack their outfits and hasten
away to the region lying between Cape Horn and the Straits of Magellan
to dig for gold. Neither Australia nor California in their roughest days
afforded the dangers, nor did they make the showings of gold--real
placer gold for the poor man to dig--that have been, and are still to be
found in Tierra del Fuego, and the adjoining islands. Nor is the gold in
all cases too fine to be saved by ordinary rude sluices, for "nuggets as
big as kernels of corn"--the ideal gold of the placer miner--have been
found by the handful, and may still be had in one well-known locality if
the miner is willing and able to endure the hardships and escape the
dangers incident to the search.
