"The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn: A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia" by John Randolph Spears. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
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John Randolph Spears. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn: A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia
The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn: A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia
Table of Contents
PREFACE
THE GOLD DIGGINGS OF CAPE HORN
CHAPTER I
AFTER CAPE HORN GOLD
CHAPTER II
THE CAPE HORN METROPOLIS
CHAPTER III
CAPE HORN ABORIGINES
CHAPTER IV
A CAPE HORN MISSION
CHAPTER V
ALONG SHORE IN TIERRA DEL FUEGO
ON A BEAGLE CHANNEL RANCH
ON THE PRAIRIES OF TIERRA DEL FUEGO
THE ONA INDIANS
THE ALACULOOFS
CHAPTER VI
STATEN ISLAND OF THE FAR SOUTH
CHAPTER VII
THE NOMADS OF PATAGONIA
THE FATE OF THE BOASTER
THE REWARD OF A DESIRE FOR VAIN DISPLAY
A CIDER FESTIVAL
CHAPTER VIII
THE WELSH IN PATAGONIA
CHAPTER IX
BEASTS ODD AND WILD
CHAPTER X
BIRDS OF PATAGONIA
CHAPTER XI
SHEEP IN PATAGONIA
CHAPTER XII
THE GAUCHO AT HOME
CHAPTER XIII
PATAGONIA'S TRAMPS
CHAPTER XIV
THE JOURNEY ALONG-SHORE
INDEX
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John Randolph Spears
Published by Good Press, 2019
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The region seems but a narrow space as one looks at the maps, but it is a wide one with labyrinthian channels and hidden bays, the ports of many a missing sloop and catboat of which never a trace will be found to tell the tale of disaster. It is a region where no man with a wife or other person depending on him should enter, but for the young and independent fellow, who can gain vigor and courage in facing the mad freaks of an Antarctic gale, there is no place better than that beyond the Straits of Magellan. He may not get rich—the chances are that he'll be glad to work his way north in the stoke hole of some steamer—but he will have had an experience that will make him contented to live thereafter in the milder region of Uncle Sam's domain, and will, moreover, fit him to make his way there better than he could have been prepared in any other way.
The sidewalks are peculiar. Under a village ordinance every such walk is edged with a six-inch square timber. Between this timber and the front wall of the house could be found, in a few places stone, in fewer tile brick, in some well-packed beds of sand, but in the majority of cases little narrow lakes of water securely held in place by the timber sea-wall. The plaza showed a rich black loam and nothing else.
