The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn: a Study of Life in Tierra Del Fuego And ...
The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn: a Study of Life in Tierra Del Fuego And ...
Spears, John Randolph, 1850-1936
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The herds and flocks increased. What with his lawful private trade and his lawful stock business while a mis- sionary, Mr. Bridges, no doubt, had ample means for stocking his farm when he left the society's service to turn farmer that he might " insure the well-being of some of the natives." With his twenty-four miles of water Digitized by VjOOQIC 124 THE GOLD DIGGINGS OF CAPE HORN. front, his cheap labor — the cheapest, for the purpose, found anywhere — and his ready access to market, Mr. Brid...ges will, doubtless, become one of the wealthiest land-holders in the south part of the continent. There is one other point which a captious critic might bring against Mr. Bridges, but is one the prospectors would not be likely to think of. Some of the land he now holds once belonged to a number of Yahgan families. Their title was not the indefinite one which a tribe might make to the territory it occupied, but a very clear title — a title that any civilized government would acknowledge. It was theirs by right of possession and improvement.
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