Joseph Banks - Endeavour Journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0222
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Terra del Fuego
were collected by the women whose business it seemd to be to attend at low water with a basket in one hand a stick with a point & barb in the other & a satchel on their backs which they filld with shell fish loosning the limpits with the stick & putting them into the basket which when full was emty'd into the satchel
Their arms consisted of Bows & arrows the former neatly enough made the latter neater than any I have seen, polishd to the highest degree & headed either with glass or flint very neatly but this was the only neat thing they had & the only thing they seemd to take any pains about their houses which I have describd before are the most miserable ones imaginable & furniture they have none
That these people have before had intercourse with Europaeans was very plain from many instances first from the Europaean Commodities of which we saw Sail Cloth Brown woolen Cloth Beads nails Glass &c. & of them especialy the last (which they used for pointing their arrows) a considerable quantity from the confidence they immediately put in us at our first meeting