Around the Straits of Magellan and beyond that pass lived the Yahgans, a strong and maritime race that used canoes made of tree trunks hollowed by fire.They lived ashore in primitive branch huts covered with guanaco or sea lion skins, which thy also used for clothing.These people were gatherers of shellfish rather than hunters. They fed on anything that came their way, a beached whale was a feast for them, but the system required to be constantly on the move and they sailed the channels around and beyond Tierra del Fuego and ventured around the Horn. Fitz Roy and Darwin met them there. They rarely went far from land or sailed at night. Today, this race is almost extinct. European diseases brought by the missionaries decimated the once numerous tribes. A few Yaghans, mostly of mixed blood, survive near the Naval Base at Puerto Williams. Occasionally, Chilean Navy patrols have sighted isolated individuals and even families living in the wild.

> Does anyone know what type of watercraft the Yahgans of Tierra
> del Feugo and the Ono of southern Argentina made? - Karl Kulp