Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) -- Description and travel
The writer of the following narrative is one of the most venerable of living missionaries, and a noble type of the “high caste” to which he belongs. With the strong religious conviction which comes from Puritan birth and training, with a faith that never doubts, and a zeal tha...
The writer of the following narrative is one of the most venerable of living missionaries, and a noble type of the “high caste” to which he belongs. With the strong religious co...
2. CHAPTER I.“+My dear Sir+: An exploring mission has been resolved upon by the Committee, Providence permitting, on the western coast of Patagonia. The vessel in which the mission must go,...
3. CHAPTER II.I called on Dr. Richards, President of the Seminary, put the papers into his hands, and requested him to confer with Drs. Perrine and Mills, the other members of the Faculty, an...
4. CHAPTER III.Having completed our outfit, written our last letters to distant correspondents, and bidden adieu to many kind and faithful friends in New York, we went on board the little scho...
5. CHAPTER IV.Thus our voyage of just ninety days is ended, and the land for which we sailed is before us. We look out upon a beach of white sand, upon sand-cliffs, sand-dunes, the grassy pam...
6. CHAPTER V._Nov. 20._ Early this morning our young chief, whom we call Louis, aroused us to prepare for a march to the northward. We struck our tent at once, and prepared our luggage, whic...
7. CHAPTER VI.What we feared on the 28th came upon us on the 29th. Early yesterday morning Lorice and his Jezebel came to see us, and wished us to strike our tent and prepare to go with them-...
8. CHAPTER VII._Dec. 23._ Our Indian friends arose early this morning to make ready for receiving the coming troop from the north, and the young chief went out to meet and to escort them into...
9. CHAPTER VIII.About 11 +A.M.+ a division of the approaching strangers appeared on a hill in sight of our encampment, and made a signal. Immediately there was a great rushing and shouting on o...
10. CHAPTER IX._Jan. 8._ Some Indians ascended Table Mountain, near us, this morning, where they obtain an extensive view of the Strait, and returned with the report that a vessel was coming i...
11. CHAPTER X._Jan. 15._ The rain continued all last night and till late this morning, when the clouds cleared away and the sun came forth to cheer us again, but the wind is still strong and...
12. CHAPTER XI._Jan. 25._ We spent most of last night in overhauling our goods, deciding what to take with us and what to give to the Indians, and in packing. A little before day we lay down a...
13. CHAPTER XII._Schooner Antarctic, off Cape Virgins, Sunday, Jan. 26, 1834._--Arose this morning and found the Antarctic passing out of the Strait and driving into the billows of the Atlantic...
14. CHAPTER XIII._Schooner Talma, at Sea, March 9, 1834._--The morning opened with golden light, the sky was clear, the wind fair, and we got under way at an early hour. With her prow to the nor...
15. CHAPTER XIV._Hilo, Hawaii, Dec. 1, 1876._ Since our visit to Patagonia I have been much interested in several recent accounts of visitors to that savage land, as also to Tierra del Fuego an...
16. CHAPTER XV.For further information in regard to the savages of Eastern Patagonia and along the Strait of Magellan, I refer the reader to “The Captive in Patagonia; or, A Personal Narrative...
17. CHAPTER XVI.I now propose to add a few facts bearing on the subject of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego taken from a very interesting little volume prepared by J. W. Marsh, M.A., and W. H. St...
18. CHAPTER XVII.Let us now return and take a rapid glance at Patagonia to see some of the things which under God our faithful English brethren have done for those benighted tribes since our soj...