With his usual good feeling, he brought two beautiful otter-skins for two of his best friends, and some spear-heads and arrows made with his own hands for the Captain.

He said he had built a canoe for himself, and he boasted that he could talk a little of his own language! But it is a most singular fact, that he appears to have taught all his tribe some English: an old man spontaneously announced "Jemmy Button's wife." Jemmy had lost all his property.

He told us that York Minster had built a large canoe, and with his wife Fuegia, had several months since gone to his own country, and had taken farewell by an act of consummate villainy; he persuaded Jemmy and his mother to come with him, and then on the way deserted them by night, stealing every article of their property.

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Captain Sulivan, who, since his voyage in the "Beagle," has been employed on the survey of the Falkland Islands, heard from a sealer in (1842 ?), that when in the western part of the Strait of Magellan, he was astonished by a native woman coming on board, who could talk some English.