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Acknowledgements

I would like to express my gratitude to the many people who have helped me along the way with this project, in particular to: Adam Perkins at the Department of Manuscripts, Cambridge University Library; Jean Marshall, Mission Education Officer at the South American Missionary Society; Elizabeth Sulivan (to whom many thanks go also for her great hospitality and fascinating labyrinth); Ursula Mommens for the Hamond diary; Dr Sheila Dean and Perry O'Donovan of the Darwin Correspondence Project; Robin Dower; Philippa Bassett, archivist of Special Collections at the University of Birmingham; Dr Lesley Gordon at the Special Collections department of the Robinson Library, University of Newcastle; Lesley Price, archivist of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Dr Janet Browne of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine; Barbara Schmidt for her knowledge of Mark Twain and persistence in finding the right reference for me; and Luigi Bonomi for his unceasing enthusiasm and dogged goading.

I am grateful to: the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and English Heritage for allowing me to quote from unpublished material in the Darwin Archive; George Pember Darwin for his permission to use the writings of Charles Darwin; the Dittrick Medical History Center, Cleveland Medical Library Association/Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio for the letter from Darwin to Charles Kingsley; Hodder Headline for the extracts from Lucas Poridges's Utermost Point of the Earth.

Many thanks also to the following institutions for allowing me to study and in some instances quote from manuscripts in their possession: the British Library, Department of Manuscripts; Carmarthenshire Archives Service; the National Register of Archives; the Public Record Office, Kew; the Archives, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Somerset Archive and Record Service; University College, London, for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge; the Vestry House museum, Walthamstow; the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.

Some archives checked out leads for me and saved me the trouble of making a visit, for which I am appreciative. These include: the Church Missionary Society; City of Plymouth Archives and Records; Flintshire County Council archive; Lambeth Palace Library; the London Transport Museum; the National Library of Scotland; the National Library of Wales; the National Maritime Museum; the Royal Archives, Windsor Castle; Suffolk County Record Office; Warwickshire County Council Record Office; West Glamorgan Archive Service; the Yorkshire Archaeological Society.

Finally I would like to give a huge thank you to Caroline Annesley and David Jeffreys for reading through several drafts of the book as it developed – the latter going beyond the call of duty, reading the manuscript while holding the hand of his wife Julia as she gave birth to baby Lorcan.

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Abbott, Captain

Aborigines

Adams, Reverend Mr

Adelaide,
HMS

Adelaide, Queen

Admiralty

Adventure,
HMS

Adventure Sound

Ahnikin

Alakaluf Indians; language

Alaska

Alien Ordnance

Allen Gardiner;
brings Jemmy to Keppel Island; deaths of Uroopa and Threeboys; fundraising for; funeral service; Jemmy returned to Wulaia; moved to Port Stanley (1860); and the murders; refit; sails into Bristol (1865); shelters off Keppel Island; stripped of her fittings; trip to Tierra del Fuego; at Wulaia Cove; the Yamana group returns home; Yamana group taken to Keppel Island

Americas

Anderson, Bishop

Andes

Anson, George, Baron

Antarctica

Anti–Earth

Antipodeans

Argentina

Argentine navy

Argyll, Duke of

Atlantic Ocean

Austen, Jane

Badcock, John

Bahia

Bailey, Arthur

Banner Cove

Barrow, John

Bartlett, Annie Jemima

Bartlett, Emma

Bartlett, William

Beagle,
HMS; anchored at Goree Roads (1833); arrives at Plymouth (1830); cramped conditions; Darwin offered a place; Darwin's narrative; and Darwin's
Origin;
FitzRoy accepts the captaincy; leaves Plymouth to take the Fuegians home; leaves Wulaia for the last time; in New Zealand; paid off; recommissioned; refit; returns to Wulaia (1834); suicide of her captain; surveying; the whale–boat incident

Beagle Channel

Beckenham

Beddoe, Dr John

Bellerophon,
HMS

Bennet, James

Bering Straits

Berlin Zoo

Betts, John

Blackwood, A.

‘A.B.' (? A. Blackwood)

Bloomfield Harbour

Boat Memory; appearance; on board the
Beagle;
captured; contracts smallpox; FitzRoy's aim; hospitalised; lodgings in Devonport; death

Boers

Boudicca

Bridges, Despard

Bridges, Lucas;
Uttermost Part of the Earth

Bridges, Mary

Bridges, Mary, jnr

Bridges, Thomas; English–Yamana dictionary

Bristol

British Association for the Advancement of Science

British Empire

Brown, John

Brunel, Isambard Kingdom

Bryant, John

Buenos Aires

Bull, Reverend Charles

Burleigh, Leonard

Bushmen

Button, Anthony (Annasplonis)

Button, Billy (Macalwense)

Button, Fuegia (Passawullacuds)

Button, James FitzRoy

Button, Jamesina (Lassaweea)

Button, Jemmy (Orundellico): appearance; arrival in Walthamstow; audience with William IV; blames the Oens–men for the massacre; on board the
Beagle;
and cannibalism; his children; in custody on the
Allen Gardiner;
decision to stay with his people; education; father's death; Fell's opinion of; first abduction; FitzRoy first sees; Gardiner and; hospitalised; and illness among the Yamana; importance of; journey to London; on Keppel Island; left at Wulaia (1833); lodgings in Devonport; loses ability to speak Yamana; a magnet to colonising missionaries; marriage; meets Snow; named; and the party of nine Fuegians; personality; phrenology; prepares to return home; question of involvement in the massacre; relationship with Darwin; returned to Wulaia (1858); reunion with his family; second abduction; statement after the murders; stripped of his property; superstition; death and burial