Narrative of the surveying voyages of his majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle (vol.2- Appendix): between the years 1826 and 1836 : describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagles's circumnavigation of the globe

96 APPENDIX. God, and He vnll draw nigh to you." Walk closely -with Him, and his name will be glorified in you. Pursuing this course, you will be sure of enjoying His blessing, and may cheerfully leave all events in His hands. Your first object must be to acquire the language of the Fuegians. To this you must apply with the utmost dihgence, fuUy availing yourself for this purpose of your intercourse with the natives on the voyage ; as, till this point is gained, you can hold no free communi- cation with the tribes on the island. In prosecution of this object, we recommend you carefully to note down in writing every new word which you bear. These vocabularies you will, at your leisure, classify and reduce to order, to form the basis of a grammar and dictionary, and iiltimately of translations into the language. In prosecution of this design, it will be requisite that you should ascertain, if practicable, which dialect is most extensively used in the island, if it should be found that there are more than one ; as it is obviously desirable that you should fix that which is most ex- tensively used. In imparting religious instruction to the natives, you will make the Bible the basis of all your teaching. You must never lose sight of that great theological principle laid down in the sixth article of the Church of England : — " That Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation ; so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man that it should be beUeved as an article of the faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation." By this sound and salutary principle, let the whole of the religious instruction which you impart to the natives be governed. And we earnestly pray that God may give you a mouth to speak, and them ears to hear, that they may so " know the Holy Scriptures that they may be made wise unto salva- tion through faith in Christ Jesus." In your intercourse vsdth the Fuegians, you will bear in mind that it is the temporal advantages which you may be capable of commu- nicating to them that they will be most easily and immediately sensible of. Among these may be reckoned the acquisition of better dwellings, and better and more plentiful food and clothing. Conse- quently, you will consider it a primary duty to instruct them in cul- tivating the potato, cabbage, and other vegetables ; to rear pigs, poultry, &c., and to construct a commodious habitation, &c. You