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Before the turn of the century, Tierra del Fuego (Fireland), the archipelago between the Strait of Magellan and Cape Horn at the very tip of South America, was one of the most wild and forbidding regions on earth-remote, unknown and inhabited by hostile tribes. E. Lucas Bridges was born into this inhospitable environment in 1874, at Ushuaia, a remote outpost run by his missionary parents on the southern coast. In this remarkable account-a highly readable amalgam of autobiography and ethnography-he tells of a life packed with drama and adventure "at the bottom of the world". As a boy he worked in his father's fields and played with Yaghan Indian children, from whom he learned Yaghan ways, legends and language. It was also a time of great peril-as the Bridges family became caught up in deadly native quarrels, and sickness, robbers, shipwreck and other misfortunes took their toll. Later, Bridges became friendly with the Ona, fierce, nomadic hunters who resisted any encroachment on their hunting grounds. Gradually, the author won their trust and friendship, eventually becoming a fellow tribesman, adviser and--at times--protector. Interwoven in his exciting narrative are invaluable accounts of Ona courtship, magic, woodcraft, astrology,mourning and burial customs, painting and tattooing, clothing,mythology and storytelling, and much more. (Copied from back cover).