Patagonia Bookshelf

Miscellaneous Clippings from Newspapers, Journals, Books etc., transcribed for the web

Newspaper articles are taken from these web-sites: National Library of New Zealand (Papers Past); National Library of Australia (Trove); United States Library of Congress (Chronicling America); New York Times (NYTimes), California Digital Newspaper Collection (CDNC) and the British Newspaper Archive.

TEXT CLIPPED FROM PUBLICATIONS


1767	Very tall men, seen near the Strait of Magellan
1770	Inhabitants of the coast of Patagonia

1786	Chance encounters at Port Egmont

1798	Harbours for the whaling fleet in the southern oceans

1826	[Captain King, who not long since returned …]
1827	[A Chilian frigate, coming round from Valparaiso …]

1834	Straits of Magellan
1838	The Astrolabe

1840	Yarns of a Yankee Tar
1840	Passage through the Straits of Magellan
1840	Navigation between Great Britain and the Pacific
1843	The Straits of Magellan
1844	[The boats of the natives of the Terra del Fuego …]
1847	[It must be of commercial interest to read ...]
1848	Coal Formations in the Straits of Magellan
1849	The Straits of Magalhaen

1850	Mission to Terra-del-Fuego
1850	Around Cape Horn
1851	Strange Succession of Accidents. Three Ships Burned.
1852	Important from Valparaiso ! !
1856	Curious and Interesting Discovery
1859	Held by Savages. Story of Massacre and Captivity.

1862	[The American schooner Ann Eliza, 128 days from Boston …]
1862	A Perilous Voyage
1865	A Character.
1865	Patagonia and Terra del Fuego
1868	[H.M.S. Shearwater has brought to Woolwich …]

1871	Massacre of British Sailors in Patagonia
1872	Ship Wrecked and Loss of Life
1873	[Navigators going homeward by way of Cape Horn …]
1873	Life in Patagonia
1874	The French Expedition to Tierra del Fuego
1875	Around the Horn
1875	An Account of Sport and Travel
1876	[Captain Carr, of the Routenbeck …]
1878	Revolt in a Chilian Penal Settlement
1879	Gold in Patagonia

1883	A Trip to Sandy Point
1885	No Longer on the Maps. How Patagonia was swallowed.
1885	Stopping in Patagonia. The Southernmost Settlement of the Globe.
1886	[Some unfortunate Indian prisoners]
1887	[Messrs Frank Gordon and S. W. Bell, of San Francisco …]
1889	Searching Tierra del Fuego
1889	Farini's latest group of Aborigines

1890	Savage's Death in Civilised London
1891	Wonderful Escapes From Death of Captain Mackay
1891	The Straits of Magellan in the days of 'Forty-Nine
1894	To South America and Paraguay. Punta Arenas
1896	Does Chile Mean War?
1897	A Cargo for Terra del Fuego
1897	Patagonia and the Argentine. Interview with Mr. Lascelles.
1898	Twenty Thousand Miles in Search of Gold!
1898	Football in Patagonia

1900	Hunting the Giant Sloth. Mr. Hesketh Prichard's Expedition …
1903	No Trace of Mylodon. Giant Sloth Lying Low.
1904	The Church nearest the South Pole
1905	King Macrae finds new use for Bagpipes
1906	Life on Magellan Strait. A Visit to Punta Arenas.
1907	Wreck of the Ship Glencairn. Thrilling Narrative of Escape …
1907	Cape Horn's Harvest
1908	Captain William Horton Smiley

1910	Boers in Patagonia. Dangers and Hardships …
1910	The Land of Fire
1912	The Wild Man of Santa Cruz
1913	Mast of famous ship to adorn Victoria Park
1916	Patagonian Patter

1921	The "Pirate of the Falklands" (Captain Smiley)

1940	The Epic of the Horn, Part 1
1940	The Epic of the Horn, Part 2

CLIPPED IMAGES


Harper's Magazine, Vol. 30 (NY)
1865	Where the Wateree Was	10 images

George Chaworth Musters
1871	At Home with the Patagonians	8 images

"Morning Call" (San Francisco)
1893	Visiting the Patagonians	4 images

John Spears reporting in "The Sun" (NY)
1894	After Cape Horn Gold	4 images
1894	Lively Punta Arenas	9
1894	Cape Horn Aborigines	6
1894	Coasting Patagonia	4
1894	Off far Cape Horn	4
1894	Far-away Ushuaia	2
1894	The Gaucho at Home	6
1894	Nomads of Patagonia	8
1894	Beasts Odd and Wild	5
1894	Birds of Patagonia	5
1894	Sheep in Patagonia	2
1895	Settling Patagonia	7

Roberto Payró
1898	La Australia Argentina	25 images

Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard
1902	Through the Heart of Patagonia	11 images

Walter Young writing in "A Merry Banker ..."
1916	Patagonian Patter	4 images

VIRTUAL CLIPPINGS

11-August-1855	fultonhistory.com
New York Daily Tribune, Page 3, 1½ columns
The Straits of Magellan - Letter from an officer of the Navy.
(USS Decatur?) East-to-West traverse; duration one month; descriptions of scenery, terrain, dense woodlands, wildlife, canoe people, Port Famine, Sandy Point

20-May-1872	fultonhistory.com
New York Herald, Page 5, 4+ columns
The Straits of Magellan - Explorations of the American Coast Surveying Expedition. - The Sublimity and Variety of Antarctic Scenery. -The Glacial Theory of Professor Agassiz Proved Correct. - Scudding before a Willi-Waw. - Patagonian Coal and Fuegian Manners
Letter from U.S. Coast Survey Steamer Hassler. Scenery; woods; vegetation; glaciers; Sandy Point; Port Famine; Cape Froward; Port Gallant; Scholl Bay; Port Churruca; Fortescue Bay; Swallow Bay; Notch Cove; Glacier Bay; Playa Parda Cove; Otter Island; Mount Burney; Tom Bay; Curious Peak; Topax Island; Eden Harbour; Connor Cove; Gulf of Penas; Corcovado Gulf; Port San Pedro; Island of Chiloé; Castro; Mount Osorno; San Carlos de Ancud; Lota; Talcahuano

27-May-1894	fultonhistory.com
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Page 12, 1+ columns
Straits of Magellan - Punta Arenas the Southern-Most Town in the World. - Charms of a Free Port - Money is Plenty, Living is Cheap, and the Inhabitants, Who Number 2,000, Are Austrians, Frrench, Spaniards, Chileans and English.
Sandy Point: a growing town, location, shipping, commerce, sheep-raising, liquor

6-November-1898	loc.gov
St. Paul Globe, Page 19, 3 columns
Tierra del Fuego - Man and Nature in One of the Least Known Parts of the World - In Latitude of Labrador - The Ona Indians, who go naked and sleep in holes in the ground; their war with the whites; and how the sheep farmers shoot them on sight; Yahgans of Southern Tierra del Fuego
Author: Frank G. Carpenter