Word: ona
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago's William Wrigley Jr., chewing gum tycoon. Other famed island-owners: Detroit's Motorman Howard Earle Coffin (Sapelo, Ga.), Boston's Lawyer Albert Cameron Burrage (Bumkin, in Boston Harbor), Maine's onetime Governor Percival Proctor Baxter (Macworth, Casco Bay), Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, Will Hays, Arthur Brisbane (Ona. Fla.), Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke (Jahncke's Bayou, St. John...
...trip north to Terra del Fuego again, in an open boat with four Yaligans. While on this canoe trip they came across a tribe of the most primitive people in the world, still living in the stone age. Another strange tribe that Colonel Furlong tells of are the Ona Indians of Terra del Fuego. These Indians were driven from the open lands of the north by the white people. They have retreated, unconquered, to the impenetrable mountains and forests, and to the bog lands. He stayed alone with the Onas for some time, and explored their country, being the first...