LIFE IN TIERRA DEL FUEGO
CLOSE CALLS IN BATTLE WITH SAVAGES.
Thomas C. Johnston, a native of the Cheshire town of Hyde, has arrived home after eight years in Patagonia and Tterra del Fuego, to astonish liis relatives with tales of his adventures. He lived on the Island of Tierra del Fuego with two other Britishers for sixteen months among short, naked cannibals, who attacked the party at at the outset with arrows and poisoned darts. A good deal of rifle shooting had to he employed on them before the first camp was established. At nights joints of meat used to be stuck up outside the tents to keep the flesh in good condition. Every now and then, tlie dog-in oiic of the tents would growl and one of the party would jump lip, grab a rille and look out just, in time to wing a cannibal running off with the meat. That happened a few times till the savages grew tired of being stung, so they rushed the camp and in a fierce fight twelve natives were killed among the attackers, while four friendly natives were killed and Johnson himself had his left wrist nearly severed by a spear.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3356, 24 October 1911, Page 8
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200LIFE IN TIERRA DEL FUEGO Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3356, 24 October 1911, Page 8
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