These heaps can be distinguished at a long distance by the bright green colour of certain plants, which invariably grow on them.

Among these may be enumerated the wild celery and scurvy grass, two very serviceable plants, the use of which has not been discovered by the natives.
The Fuegian wigwam resembles, in size and dimensions, a haycock.

It merely consists of a few broken branches stuck in the ground, and very imperfectly thatched on one side with a few tufts of grass and rushes.

The whole cannot be the work of an hour, and it is only used for a few days.

At Goeree Roads I saw a place where one of these naked men had slept, which absolutely offered no more cover than the form of a hare.