Tehuelches, half-breed squaw in tailor-made gown, 44; Indian tribe of Patagonia, 128; same origin as Onas, 129; have no boats, 129; consider horse meat a delicacy, 129; liquid language of, 132; make tents of skins, 130, 165; are nomads, 151; a noble race, 151; visited by Magellan, 151; exact tribute from Spanish colony, 152 _et seq._; obtain horses, 152; character of, 152; chief demanding tribute in Carmen de Patagones, 153; story of efforts to convert, 153 _et seq._; receive missionaries kindly, 154; maintain independence for 360 years, 155; war of extermination against, 155; prisoners tortured by whites, 156; home region of, 156; alluvial soil, 157; salt lakes and beds, 157; volcanic rocks, 157; physical proportions of, 157 _et seq._; prodigious strength, 158; personal appearance, 158; attractive women, 158; habit of gum chewing, 159; population before and after war of extermination, 159; mental qualities of, 159; literature of, 159; fables of, 159 _et seq._; religious beliefs of, 160 _et seq._; religious rites of, 161; medicine men and women, 161; superstitions of, 161 _et seq._; musical instruments of, 162; division of time, 162; astronomy of, 162; government, 162; ceremonies of marriage and divorce, 163; happy home life of, 163; cider festivals 164; love of liquor chief vice, 164; apple orchards of, 164; weapons of, 164; use of guns and pistols, 164; methods of hunting game, 164 _et seq._; modesty of, 165; morality of, 165; corrupted by whites, 165 _et seq._; methods of cooking, 166; habits of cleanliness among, 166; food of, 166, 167; characteristics of, 167; meaning of name, 173; help Welsh colonists, 173; chief's dying remark, 175; blankets made by squaws, 234 _et seq._; beguiled sailors to desert, 257 _et seq._; made slaves of them, 258; story of baby found by Lieut. Wilson, 273; glass arrow-heads made by, 296 Tekenika Bay, 104 _Teresina B._, story of dismantled sloop named, 134 _et seq._ Thetis Bay, Argentine military station, 127 Tierra del Fuego (_see_ under Fuego). Tinamon, spotted (_see_ Prairie chicken). Tower Rock (_see_ Port Desire). Tramps, of Patagonia, 250; first view of, at Madryn, 251; story of mysterious, at Madryn, 251 _et seq._; from Sandy Point, 253 _et seq._; causes of development of, 254, 256; ordinance against, at Gallegos, 255; in Chubut, 256; sailors beguiled by Indians to desert, 257; hardships of, among Indians, 258; number of, compared with those in the United States, 259 Transport, trip on Argentine (_see Ushuaia_). Tropical luxuriance of growth in Tierra del Fuego, 23 Turner, L. M., on Eskimo language, 63 Turnips, size of, at Tierra del Fuego, 115; grown at Punta Arenas, 289 U Uruguay, quarantine station of, 228 (_see_ Flores Island). Useless Bay, on Tierra del Fuego, 10, 125