Identifier: aroundaboutsouth00vinc (find matches)
Title: Around and about South America
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Vincent, Frank, 1848- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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theEsquimaux or Laplanders. It was a bitter cold, rainy, andwindy night, and yet the men were almost naked, the chil-dren wholly so, and the women partially so—seeming, in fact,to care less about dress than the men. A few had seal-skinsloosely attached to their shoulders, and altogether open infront; some wore old pieces of coarse sacking ; others sportedEuropean coats or jackets, but evidently these were wornmore for variety than either decency or comfort. Men andwomen alike will remove and sell you any skin they mayhave on—save their own—for a little ships biscuit, or to-bacco, or a box of matches. Besides skins, they proffer inbarter their domestic utensils and their weapons, generallybows and arrows, the arrows not feathered, and the barb con-sisting of a triangular piece of glass ground sharp. Whilethe men were on the steamers deck engaged in traffic, thewomen in the boat were singing a plaintive kind of song, andthe children were staring with all their eyes, and with open
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FIORD AND FUEGIAN. 125 mouth, at the wonderful fire-boat and its pale-faced occu-pants. They were constantly chattering to each other in asort of guttural, disconnected talk, which distantly resembledJapanese. The largest children were squatting all in a heapnear the fire. One of the women, who sat in the stern tosteer, had, after the fashion of a hen, two or three very youngchildren or babies between her legs and in her lap, to keepthem warm, I suppose, for they had not a stitch of clothingupon them. The sailors gave the men pipes to smoke, firstshowing them how the feat was accomplished, and riggedthem out with old caps, coats, trousers, shirts, and drawers.The cook poured into their boat an enormous panful ofhard-tack, or ships biscuit, for which there was a greatscramble and much noisy congratulation. Liquor was giventhem, but they did not take so kindly to this as to the to-bacco. One of our crew then brought out an accordion, andendeavored to get them to dance or at least sing,

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