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York, being a powerful resolute man, was pretty sure to get on well, together with his wife Fuegia.
Poor Jemmy looked rather disconsolate, and would then, I have little doubt, have been glad to have returned with us.
His own brother had stolen many things from him; and as he remarked, "What fashion call that:" he abused his countrymen, "all bad men, no sabe (know) nothing" and, though I never heard him swear before, "damned fools." Our three Fuegians, though they had been only three years with civilised men, would, I am sure, have been glad to have retained their new habits; but this was obviously impossible.
I fear it is more than doubtful whether their visit will have been of any use to them. In the evening, with Matthews on board, we made sail back to the ship, not by the Beagle Channel, but by the southern coast.
The boats were heavily laden and the sea rough, and we had a dangerous passage.
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