Yahgan

The islands on which are found the homes of the Yahgan Indians are almost without exception mountains that rise from the depths of the Southern Sea.

But even then, if judged by any white man's standard, the Yahgan house was as bad as any in the world.

Living thus, "shelterless and naked in a land of fierce and freezing storms," one need not wonder that even scientific observers believed the Yahgan "the most miserable specimen of humanity to be found on earth."

The Yahgan used whale oil as we use vaseline.

However, one can understand why the explorers did not perceive the real condition of the Yahgan.