To this day their manners remain the same.
They have been observed to enter a tent, and actually pull some meat from beneath the head of a sleeping seaman.

The Gauchos also have frequently in the evening killed them, by holding out a piece of meat in one hand, and in the other a knife ready to stick them.
As far as I am aware, there is no other instance in any part of the world, of so small a mass of broken land, distant from a continent, possessing so large an aboriginal quadruped peculiar to itself.
Their numbers have rapidly decreased; they are already banished from that half of the island which lies to the eastward of the neck of land between St.Salvador Bay and Berkeley Sound.

Within a very few years after these islands shall have become regularly settled, in all probability this fox will be classed with the dodo, as an animal which has perished from the face of the earth.
At night (17th) we slept on the neck of land at the head of Choiseul Sound, which forms the south-west peninsula.

The valley was pretty well sheltered from the cold wind; but there was very little brushwood for fuel.

The Gauchos, however, soon found what, to my great surprise, made nearly as hot a fire as coals; this was the skeleton of a bullock lately killed, from which the flesh had been picked by the carrion-hawks.