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Timorodee Patoo-Patoo. The expedition had smooth sailing until it hit Tierra del Fuego. There, an overzealous scientific party of twelve, bent on collecting hundreds of new botanical specimens, got ambushed by a howling snowstorm and lost two men. The survivors staggered back to the ship after a ration of three mouthfuls of fresh vulture, "each man given his share, raw, to cook as he pleased...
...State Department, the whole affair was a big headache. No matter how indiscreetly Prío had behaved, Latin Americans from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego would unfailingly interpret his arrest as overt U.S. support of Strongman Batista...
...midnight of October 11-12 and the whole course of world history was going to change forever in just two hours more. Nobody quite realized that. But every man in the fleet, from the Admiral to the smallest page boy, was tensely alert . . . 'Tierra! Tierra!' bawled [the lookout on the Pinta] . . . The ship's biggest piece of artillery, a 'lombard,' had been standing, loaded and primed, ready to fire a signal the moment there was news . . . 'Bang!' went the lombard. North America had been discovered...
...track since then,* but none ever quite matched Slocum's achievement or his natural bent for storytelling: how he was chased by Moroccan pirates, rode out a tidal wave off the Patagonian coast, spent weeks beating his way through the Strait of Magellan and fighting off marauding Tierra del Fuego Indians. One night, glassy-eyed from lack of sleep and unable to stand watch any longer, he went below for rest-after sprinkling the deck with carpet tacks that had been brought along for just such an emergency. The barefooted Fuegians came aboard at midnight. Reported the laconic Slocum...
...pure-blooded Indian population of Tierra del Fuego numbered less than 150. The white population, principally engaged in sheep-raising, had grown to over...