Jemmy Button

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Several episodes of the 1978 serial The Voyage of Charles Darwin dramatize the Fuegians' capture and their later return to Tierra del Fuego. a b Bridges, E. Lucas (1948). The Uttermost Part of the Earth (2008ed.). Overlook Press. pp.45–48. ISBN 978-1-58567-956-0.

The names given to the Fuegians by the crew were York Minster, Jemmy Button, Fuegia Basket (a girl) and Boat Memory. [1] The original names of the first three were, respectively, El'leparu, O'run-del'lico, and Yok'cushly. Boat Memory died of smallpox shortly after his arrival in England and his Yaghan name is unknown. Toumey, Christopher P. (1987). "Jemmy Button". The Americas. 44 (2): 195–207. doi: 10.2307/1007290. ISSN 0003-1615. JSTOR 1007290. S2CID 251414437. Our grammar focus was adverbial phrases. An adverbial is a word or phrase that has been used like an adverb to add detail or further information to a verb. (An easy way to remember what an adverb is: it adds to the verb.) Adverbials are used to explain how, where or when something happened; they are like adverbs made up of more than one word. In the sentences below the blue words are the adverbials:

Darwin wrote: Every soul on board was as sorry to shake hands with poor Jemmy for the last time, as we were glad to have seen him. I hope and have little doubt he will be as happy as if he had never left his country; which is more than I formerly thought. Chapman, Anne. 2010. European encounters with the Yamana people of Cape Horn, before and after Darwin.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Our handwriting focus for the week was practising sloped writing: building speed: qu. Our spelling words were queue, frequently, equipped, equipment, question, quarter.a b c Jardine, Nicholas; Secord, James A.; Spary, E. C. (1996). Cultures of natural history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p.331. ISBN 978-0-521-55894-5. Maths – Long multiplication (vocabulary to recap: multiplier, multiplicand, product, carry, place holder zero, place value, decimal. Definitions for this vocabulary can be found here) Hazlewood's peg for his history is the life of one Jemmy Button, a boy who was abducted in 1830 and taken to England, where he was trained in Victorian values before being returned to his own country as a torchbearer for civilisation. This criminal action in the service of a "higher purpose" was typical of English attitudes to the Fuegians.