As there were many instruments, clothes, and men on shore, it was thought necessary to frighten them away.

The first time a few great guns were fired, when they were far distant.

It was most ludicrous to watch through a glass the Indians, as often as the shot struck the water, take up stones, and, as a bold defiance, throw them towards the ship, though about a mile and a half distant! A boat was then sent with orders to fire a few musket-shots wide of them.

The Fuegians hid themselves behind the trees, and for every discharge of the muskets they fired their arrows; all, however, fell short of the boat, and the officer as he pointed at them laughed.

This made the Fuegians frantic with passion, and they shook their mantles in vain rage.