It was most amusing to see the undisguised smile of satisfaction with which one young woman with her face painted black, tied several bits of scarlet cloth round her head with rushes.

Her husband, who enjoyed the very universal privilege in this country of possessing two wives, evidently became jealous of all the attention paid to his young wife; and, after a consultation with his naked beauties, was paddled away by them.
Some of the Fuegians plainly showed that they had a fair notion of barter.

I gave one man a large nail (a most valuable present) without making any signs for a return; but he immediately picked out two fish, and handed them up on the point of his spear.

If any present was designed for one canoe, and it fell near another, it was invariably given to the right owner.

The Fuegian boy, whom Mr.
Low had on board, showed, by going into the most violent passion, that he quite understood the reproach of being called a liar, which in truth he was.