 | Wesleyan Methodist missionary society - 1848 - 190 페이지
...from whence Jemmy Button and the others had been taken. They landed first at a cove called Wigwam; the inhabitants, living chiefly upon shell-fish, are...intervals to the same spots, as is evident from the piles of old shells, which must often amount to many tons in weight. These heaps can be distinguished... | |
 | 1865 - 592 페이지
...without any domestic animal save the dog; to them, as to the modern Fuegian, life was a hard struggle ; " the inhabitants living chiefly upon shell-fish, are...shells, which must often amount to some tons in weight. . . . Whenever it is low water, they must rise to pick shell-fish from the rocks ; and the women, winter... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1865 - 458 페이지
...Darwin saw shell-heaps in the island of Terra del Fuego. He says : "The inhabitants, living chiefly npon shell-fish, are obliged constantly to change their...intervals to the same spots, as is evident from the pjlea of old shells, which must often amount to many tons in weight. These heaps can bo distinguished... | |
 | Hodder Michael Westropp - 1872 - 244 페이지
...and then thrown away. Darwin thus describes this custom among the inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego. " The inhabitants, living chiefly upon shell-fish, are...shells, which must often amount to some tons in weight." A like custom has given origin to similar shell heaps in different countries. They are numerous in... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1873 - 552 페이지
...neighbourhood might be so called with equal propriety. The inhabitants, living chiefly upon shell -fish, are obliged constantly to change their place of residence;...intervals to the same spots, as is evident from the piles of old shells, which must often amount to many tons in weight. These heaps can be distinguished... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge, William Fayal Clarke, Albert Gallatin Lanier, Maurice R. Robinson - 1884 - 526 페이지
...have often a hard, and at times an unsuccessful, struggle for existence. Darwin thus speaks of it: " The inhabitants, living chiefly upon shell-fish, are...constantly to change their place of residence, but return at intervals to the same spot. * * * At night, five or six of them, unprotected from the wind... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1879 - 452 페이지
...men in a savage state, as compared with those long civilized? The inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego, living chiefly upon shell-fish, are obliged constantly...they return at intervals to the same spots, as is AUSTRALIAN ABOR1GINES. evident from the piles of old shells, which must often amount to many tons in... | |
 | Ernest Ingersoll - 1881 - 302 페이지
...passages, which give us a vivid and 'probably correct idea of what might have beeu seen on the Danish shore long, long ago: The inhabitants, living chiefly upon...of old shells, which must often amount to some tons iu weight. These heaps can be distinguished at a long distance by the bright-green color of certain... | |
 | Ernest Ingersoll - 1881 - 306 페이지
...passages, which give us a vivid and probably correct idea of what might have been seen on the Danish shore long, long ago: The inhabitants, living chiefly upon...place of residence ; but they return at intervals to tho same spots, as is evident from the pile of old shells, which must often amount to some tons in... | |
 | Charles Rau - 1882 - 200 페이지
...h'.s voyage round the world Mr. Darwin saw shell-heaps in the island of Tierra del Fuego. He says : " The inhabitants, living chiefly upon shell-fish, are...intervals to the same spots, as is evident from the piles of old shells, which must often amount to many tons in weight. These heaps can be distinguished... | |
| |
The inhabitants, living chiefly upon shell-fish, are obliged constantly to change their place of residence; but they return at intervals to the same spots, as is evident from the piles of old shells, which must often amount to many tons in weight. These... 
