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Orundellico was an unremarkable boy, whom fate picked out for an extraordinary life. His drama was one of human resilience and unquenchable spirit, throughout which it is possible to recognise his abilities and intelligence as a sign of the potential abilities and intelligence of the wider Fuegian peoples. The natives of Tierra del Fuego are lost now to the world, but it is better to remember them in the person of Jemmy Button, whether hunting seal and guanaco on the shores of the Yahgashaga, toying with the inhabitants of Good Success Bay, repeating scriptures in the classroom at Walthamstow, or dining with the friends of FitzRoy, than those shadows of Tierra del Fuego who were exhibited in the Royal Aquarium in 1889.

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