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 …better than magnificent. Eastward of Cape Froward the country is not only habitable, but comfortably so, while the comparatively level land is available for the pasturage of sheep and cattle, and for the cultivation of roots. Westward of Cape Froward, the land is a mass of abrupt mountains, mostly of granite or slate, bare on the upper parts, but covered in some places with thick moss, or dense beech forest on the lower slopes.

Natives:

Fuegians (Natives of Tierra del Fuego) will rarely be met with Eastard of Cape Forward. It is said that the Patagonians have retired to the North.  Fuegians who inhabit the main island of Tierra del Fuego are not Canoe Indians, and are, more over, very shy of showing themselves to any strangers, who may land, though they are by no means timid in the ordinary sense of the word. 

They seem to have friendly relations with one another on each side of the strait. Usually very few of them will be seen by a vessel passing through the strait, but it is extraordinary how rapidly 100 or more will get together if they see an opportunity to attack a boat or a wrecked party. How the rendezvous is known is a mystery, but fires are seen smoking along the coast for miles, and out of every creek a canoe will be seen shooting towards the rallying point. 

There is none of the graceful gliding of the North American canoe in these miserable boats. Instead of being propelled by paddles they are rowed by oars, rudely made of some pieces of board, tied onto the end of a pole. The canoes also, instead of being hollowed out from the trunk of a large tree into a pretty shape, or made of bark, are simply planks tied together with fiber. And on each side there will be found 6 or 8 men, women and children, according to the size of the boat. They are generally almost naked, the women appearing to care less about clothes than the men, and will sell you a seal skin for a little biscuit or tobacco. - There is one striking difference...