Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0219
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Terra del Fuego
Janry 1769
Celery or parsley or rather is between both these herbs we us'd plentifully while we stayd here putting them in our soup &c: & found the benefit from them which Seamen in general find from vegetable diet after having been long deprivd of it
The inhabitants we saw here seemd to be one small tribe of Indians consisting of not more than 50 of all ages & sexes they are of a reddish Colour nearly resembling that of rusty iron mixd with oil the men large built but very clumsey their hight from 5ft 8 to 5ft 10 nearly & all very much of the same size the women much less seldom exceeding 5ft their Cloaths are no more than a kind of cloak of Guanicoe or seal skin thrown loose over their shoulders & reaching down nearly to their knees under this they have nothing at all nor any thing to cover their feet except a few of them had shoes of raw seal hide drawn loosely round their instep like a purse in this dress there is no distinction between men & women except that the latter have their cloak tied round their middle with a kind of belt or thong & a small flap of leather hanging like Eves fig leaf over those parts which nature teaches them to hide which precept tho she has taught to them she seems intirely to have omitted with