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" The inhabitants, living chiefly upon shell-fish, are obliged constantly to change their place of residence; but they return at intervals to the same spots, as is evident from the piles of old shells, which must often amount to many tons in weight. These... "
Pre-historic Times: As Illustrated by Ancient Remains, and the Manners and ... - Page 189
by Sir John Lubbock - 1865 - 512 pages
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The Voyage of the Beagle

Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1909 - 552 pages
...Fuegian habitations; but every bay in the neighbourhood might be so called with equal propriety. TheX inhabitants, living chiefly upon shell-fish, are obliged...intervals to the same spots, as is evident from the piles of old shells, which must often amount to many tons in weight. These heaps can be distinguished...
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What Darwin Saw in His Voyage Round the World in the Ship Beagle

Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1879 - 232 pages
...men in a savage state, as compared with those long civilized ? The inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego, living chiefly upon shell-fish, are obliged constantly...they return at intervals to the same spots, as is AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES. evident from the piles of old shells, which must often amount to many tons in...
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Aboriginal Environmental Impacts

James L. Kohen - Aboriginal Australians - 1995 - 174 pages
...Charles Darwin, who observed the Tierra del Fuegans at the southern tip of South America. Darwin states: 'The inhabitants, living chiefly upon shell-fish,...residence, but they return at intervals to the same spot, as is evident from the piles of old shells, which must often amount to many tons of weight.'"...
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The Voyage of the Beagle

Charles Darwin - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 500 pages
...called with equal propriety. The inhabitants, living chiefly upon shell-fish, are obliged constandy to change their place of residence; but they return...intervals to the same spots, as is evident from the piles of old shells, which must often amount to many tons in weight. These heaps can be distinguished...
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The Antarctic Dictionary: A Complete Guide to Antarctic English

Bernadette Hince - Antarctica - 2000 - 416 pages
...'Beagle' under command of Captain Fitz Roy. RN. 2nd edn lohn Murray. London: 2I3. The Isc. Fuegianl inhabitants. living chiefly upon shell-fish. are obliged...intervals to the same spots. as is evident from the piles of old shells. which must often amount to many tons in weight. These heaps can be distinguished...
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Culinary Herbs

Ernest Small, National Research Council Canada - Cooking - 2006 - 440 pages
...famous books, "The Voyage of the Beagle", that: "The inhabitants [of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina], living chiefly upon shell-fish, are obliged constantly...intervals to the same spots, as is evident from the piles of old shells, which must often amount to many tons in weight. These heaps can be distinguished...
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1865 - 462 pages
...in the island of Terra del i'uego. He says : "The inhabitants, living chiefly npon shell-fish, aro obliged constantly to change their place of residence ; but they return at intervals to the sume spots, as is evident from tba piles of old shells, which must often amount to many tons in weight....
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