Regional Geography
' Peoples of the World '—4
'Hunters and Fishers of Tierra del
Fuego'
JEAN HAMILTON
Last week you heard about the central Andes ; today you are to hear about the ' drowned ' end of this almost interminable mountain range that disappears under the Magellan Strait to reappear under the name of Tierra del Fuego, about the size of Scotland, one-third of it consisting of smaller islands, inhabited by nomadic hunters and fishers -Alacaloof and Yaghan Indians.
Life for them is an incessant battle against starvation. To obtain food they venture naked in small canoes into tremendous seas. This evening Jean Hamilton is to tell you something of their lives ; of the coasts that receive the full force of the Antarctic gales ; of storms so fierce that even these fearless seamen are unable to live in them, and their larders are in consequence empty.
Jean Hamilton will describe the fishing methods of these Canoe Indians, and the hunting methods of the Foot Indians who inhabit the interior. And she will say something of the white settlers who occupy the dry, grassy plains of the south-east.