Chapter 2 Part Two Mysterious Existence

The geographer named this end of the American continent and all the islands and small archipelagos between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans after Magellan.The southernmost land of the mainland is the territory of Patagonia, which meanders on the two vast peninsulas of King Guillaume and Brunswick, and finally disappears at the latter at a promontory called Forvaux.These large and small islands are not directly connected to each other but separated by the Strait of Magellan. The terrain of this area is such a structure.The name of the famous and well-known Portuguese navigator of the sixteenth century has thus been preserved and immortalized forever.

The geography here is so unique that by 1881, this new continent was not affiliated with any developed country, what’s more, it had no contact with its relatives and neighbors: Chile and the Argentine Republic.However, these two countries have been fighting endlessly for the Pampas grassland of Patagonia for many years.The Strait of Magellan does not surrender to anyone, and the new immigrants set up camp and build their homes here, but it must maintain its absolute independence. However, it is not just an insignificant vast territory. In addition to those countless and insignificant islands, there are also 50,000 kilometers of land in this area: The island of Lavalrin, with the small islands and reefs that have been thrown into the archipelago of Grevey, Wollaston, Fresley, Hercet, Hells, and Shell, and the rest, The entire huge American continent looks like this fragmented.

In Magellan Island, Tierra del Fuego is the most extensive among the few independent lands. Its north and west range from Espiritu, Cape Santo to the Strait of Magdalena. The untidy coastline forms the cape Tianya .The western part of Tierra del Fuego, overlooked by Mount Salma Miando, spreads out quite scattered on the peninsula, and then continues on to Cape San Diego, which resembles the mysterious half-reclining sphinx.The tail end of the cape is submerged in the Le Maire Strait. It was on this large island that the scene previously described took place in April, 1880.Le Corgis was thinking about leaps and bounds, and it was this canal he was watching intently. It was called the Canal, and it flowed to the south of Tierra del Fuego, from Galton.The islands of Horst, Lavalin and Pickton echo each other on the other side of the canal.Further to the south lies the fragmented, undulating stretch of the Cape Orles archipelago.

Just as the battle between man and leopard was selected as the first article of the article, it has been more than ten years since he first appeared in Tierra del Fuego and was called Le Cogi by the Indians.How did he get here?Certainly aboard the steam schooners, those gigantic ships that zigzagged in along Magellan's maze of channels and islands that stretched out into the Pacific.Its purpose is to do fur business with the local natives; such as the trade of primitive alpaca, vicuna, llama, seal and other animals.So how this stranger came here can be easily explained clearly, but want to find out his name?Layman He Fang?Was it born in the New World or the Old World?People have so many doubts about it, and it would be embarrassing and embarrassing for him to ask him to explain it himself, because he knows nothing about him, and besides, no one, to add an innocuous remark, would want to He asked the bottom line. In this land where authority has disappeared, who would take pleasure in talking and gossiping, to ask the bottom line!He doesn't live in such a perfect country with an organizational structure, where the police officers want to find out all kinds of people's past. Here, it is not a fantasy to hide your name for many years. The power of the country is submissive, all laws and regulations, all customs and practices are regarded as things outside the body, and people live a completely unrestrained, free and casual life.

In the first two years of Le Corgi's setting foot in Tierra del Fuego, he did not want to settle down in a fixed place, he wanted to travel to other places, he wandered, shuttled, made friends with the indigenous people, and never paid attention to them. The few foreign companies opened by white pioneers, if he goes to a ship anchored in the archipelago, it is also with the local aborigines as intermediaries, and the purpose is only to replenish ammunition and medicine.He bought these things either by barter or by paying in Spanish or English currency, and he never seemed to be short of money.

For the rest of the time, he traveled from tribe to tribe, from camp to camp. He was assimilated by the local aborigines, made a living by hunting and fishing, sometimes spending the night with people on the coast, and sometimes in the tribes in the interior. Camping, sharing the joys of life in a hut or tent with them, he healed the sick, rescued the orphans and widows, he was well received by the guests, and they duly bestowed upon him a distinguished nickname.This nickname has become a household name in this archipelago, and everyone knows it. There can be no doubt that Le Corgis was well-educated, especially in medicine, and he also had a good command of several foreign languages.The French, the English, the Germans, the Spaniards, and the Norwegians all regarded him as their own compatriots. Although he was proficient in many languages, this mysterious figure lost no time in learning Menya, He spoke this dialect fluently, which he used most widely in the Strait of Magellan, and which was often used by missionaries to translate several passages of the Bible.

The common perception that the Strait of Magellan is barren and uninhabitable is not true, and Le Corgi entrusted it with his life.The first explorers raved about him, which is really nothing more than that, but it would be an exaggeration to say that it is a paradise on earth. If you say that it is at the top of the Cape Orles, it is safe from the storm. , that will only make you lose your elegance.However, like the European continent, it has a vast territory to support all living beings. Although the living conditions here are very harsh, the climate here is very humid. The severe cold air blowing from Belarus, Sweden, and Norway, the average temperature in summer is less than 15 degrees Celsius, and in winter it is not lower than minus 5 degrees Celsius.

Looking at the surface of these islands despite the lack of meteorological observations, it is possible to ignore the exaggerated pessimism.There is a large area of ​​vegetation here, and there are endless pastures, enough to feed an innumerable herd of cattle.The vast three beech, birch, barberry and holly can be seen everywhere.Needless to say, the plants we depend on can thrive here, even the lush wheat. However, in this not uninhabitable place, there are few people, and its population includes only a small group of Indians. This is what we can find in books and is called Fuego or nomads.They were the last of the true savages in the humane society, almost all naked, who lived a wandering, miserable life in this vast and uninhabited land.

For a long time at the beginning of this story, Chile established a post station in Penta Arras in the Strait of Magellan, showing some concern for this unknown area, but the so-called human power is only As a result, despite their thriving colonial expansion, they did not take any action to set foot in Magellan's land. What kind of accidents did Le Corgi go through to stay on this land unknown to most people? This is a secret.At the top of the cliff, through this secret, he roared, as if he wanted to challenge the gods and thank the earth, at least he could know a little bit about him.

No God!No master!This is the traditional anarchist motto, and it should be inferred from this that Le Corgis himself belonged to this sect, a multitude of grotesques, sinful, imaginative, true bookish men as far as sin is concerned, For the illusory humanitarianism, fantasies.Its Humanism aims to banish the imaginary laws made to eradicate evil, thus banishing evil from the human race forever. To which of these two classes did Le Corgis belong?He is an absolute liberal who hates the world and is cynical, a defender of morality, an apologist for doers, and an apologist for propaganda. This is the kind of person who, one after another, is rejected by various nations and is homeless!I had no choice but to find this corner of the earth to take refuge and inhabit.

Such speculation seems untenable, because as soon as he set foot on the land of Magellan, his benevolent deeds were praised by the local residents and were well-known.A person who is so keen on rescuing human beings from time to time will not have the idea of ​​destroying them once. Since he himself appears to be an anarchist, I hope it is true. Their wandering life is logical, and it can only be for the end Heartache!Not necessarily driven by absurd ideas, to punish others, there is no doubt that he was completely immersed in fantasy, and could not resign himself to those ruthless laws, which in the civilized universe From the birth to the end of life, these provisions Regulations have always bound people. In this situation, he will finally face one day. He feels suffocating in the red tape legal forest, while ordinary people sacrifice their own independence in exchange for that little bit of comfort and safety.His nature is that he cannot tolerate these acts of rape of public opinion and the law of the jungle. Since then, he has been helpless with the status quo of life. He can only go far away to find an ideal society of equality and freedom without oppression. It is also for this reason that he later fell short in Magellan, and it is also because the Strait of Magellan at this time is the only remaining, free and fragrant, pure land on earth in this sky. He lived here, and for about the first two years, after Le Corgi disembarked, he never left the island. The aborigines' interest in his name and his influence over them grew day by day, and the inhabitants of other islands, the Indians who came in canoes and fished, flocked to him for advice. They are distinguished from the Yagaras who live on Tierra del Fuego, a miserable nomad who, like their kind, lives by hunting and fishing.When their white benefactor showed himself on the island of the Beague Canal, they had nothing but to bow down.Le Corgi has always been willing to seek medical advice and methods. He even stood up at critical moments. When the epidemic was raging, he risked his life to fight against the disease.His fame was so great that it spread immediately in all directions of the island, and he was also well-known and well-known outside the Strait of Magellan.Those grateful natives in Tierra del Fuego gave Le Corgi the honorary title. People have invited him more than once to Penta Arras, but he always refused without changing his original intention. It's hard to make him change his mind, he seems unwilling to take a step beyond the threshold, he feels that those lands will no longer be a free and pure land. At the end of the second year of his residence on the island, an incident occurred whose consequences would have a huge impact on his later life. Ta︱Alras, if you go to the small town where Chileans live, this will not make the Patagonians give up their occasional harassment of Magellan's territory.People and horses can be transported to the south bank of the Strait of Magellan in just a few hours. After a long journey called expeditionary raid by Americans, they go from one end of Tierra del Fuego to the other. Wherever they go, they attack the local natives. Raided, extorted, looted their supplies, and robbed their children, and took them back to the Patagonian tribes as slaves like cattle and horses. There are obvious differences in race and habits between the Patagonians or the East Laerz people and the Tierra del Fuego people. Compared with the latter, the identity of the former is suspicious, and the latter lives by fishing. The family is the unit, but gangs and associations, while the former live on hunting. They also form groups and have a leader with supreme power. This is how the tribe is formed. The natives of the latter are recognizable at a glance by his square head, high cheekbones, sparse eyebrows, and sunken forehead.All in all, they were considered to be a miserable and unfortunate human being, but their race was not extinct because of this, and there were so many descendants. If you allow a presumptuous metaphor, they are as numerous as the dogs around the camp. As for the Patagonians, they are of tall stature, strong and well-proportioned, dignified, with fair faces, long flowing hair fastened with a band over the forehead, oval faces, more than temples. They are also wide, somewhat similar to the Mongolians, with slender eyes, flat nose, and deep eye sockets, which are quite narrow, with shining eyes. They are brave and fearless, like never-tiring knights, driving galloping horses to conquer the vast space , Occupy a wide pasture to graze their horses, and seize a larger hunting area in order to capture primitive alpacas, vicuna, llamas and other animals. Le Corgi encountered these people unexpectedly many times during their intrusion into Tierra del Fuego. However, so far, he has not had any contact with these barbaric invaders. Chile and Argentina are also helpless against them. Can't control it. In November 1872, after a long journey, they came to the Strait of Magellan, west of Tierra del Fuego. For the first time, Le Corgi did not stand idly by and extended a helping hand to the fishermen in the Gulf of Iludile. The northern end of the North Bay is a swamp, which forms a criss-cross terrain. It is exactly opposite to the colonial ruins built in Salmendo, the Hunger Port. The Hunger Port was also named to commemorate the disaster. Some East Laerz people came to the south bank of the Iludile Bay and attacked the camp of the Jaganas. There were only about 20 households here. Stronger, better weapons. However, an Indian came to the camp of the natives by paddling a canoe, and under his leadership, tried to resist.This man's name was Calori, and he was engaged in the work of leading the ship.For those adventurous voyages, navigating the Beager Canal and the islands along the Cape d'Orles, he has just guided a ship anchored in the Gulf of Iludile to Penta︱Arras and back . Kalori organized resistance and tried to expel the invaders from their homeland with the help of the Jaganas. However, due to the great disparity in strength, the fishermen were unable to carry out an effective resistance. As a result, the camp was occupied, the tents were overturned, and blood Flow everywhere. During the struggle, Caloli's son, who was about nine years old at the time, remained in the canoe, where he was waiting for his father, when two Patagonians, who came at his side, The boy didn't want to be far from the sand, beyond which his father would not be able to return to the boat.One of the Donglaerzi jumped into the boat and took the child under his arms. At this very moment, Caloli, who escaped from the invaders' camp, rushed up quickly to rescue his son who had been taken away by the Eastern Lazes, and the other Patagonian shot him a spear. The arrow, the arrow brushed past his ear, but luckily missed him.Just before the second arrow was fired, there was the sound of musketry, and the marauder, mortally wounded, fell, and his companions fled. The shooter was a white man who happened to pass by here and encountered the scene of the fight. This person was Le Corgi, and without further ado, they dragged the boat with all their strength. Le Corgi and Calori jumped into the boat with the children and rowed forward vigorously. Arrows rained down on them, and one of them hit Algie in the shoulder.At this time, there was a certain distance from the edge of the cliff. Algie was seriously injured and needed urgent treatment. Le Corgi could not leave his friends, so he stayed on this boat. The Beager Canal traveled, and finally came to the New Island, where it dropped anchor in a very secluded cove, where Calori had already set up his camp. The little boy no longer had to worry, and Caloli, whose wound was healing, did not know how to express his gratitude to Le Corgi. When the canoe stopped in the creek, the Indian jumped out and begged Le Corgi to do the same. I live in the house over there, he said to him, I live here with my children, if you just want to stay here for a few days, you are more than welcome!I'll row you across the canal later.He also said, if you are willing to live here forever, my home is your home, and I am willing to be your servant! From that day on, Le Corgi never left the new island; never again did he leave Calori and his children.Because of his arrival, this Indian who lives on a small boat has a more comfortable place to live. Similarly, the conditions for Calori's livelihood have also greatly improved. The easily broken canoe was replaced by a small boat. Weir︱Chef.It was bought from them because a Norwegian ship had an accident and a man on board was bitten by a jaguar and sent ashore. However, the new life has not changed Le Corgi's humanitarian actions. He still asks the local natives how they are, and cares about their lives. appear there. A few years passed like this, and all of these, Le Corgi was recognized by the people. In his unfettered life, he devoted his whole life to this free land, and at this moment , but an unexpected event happened, which completely destroyed the peace and tranquility here.