Jemmy Button
Orundellico, known as "Jeremy Button" or "Jemmy Button", (c. 1815 – 1864) was a native Fuegian of the Yaghan (or Yámana) people from islands around Tierra del Fuego, in modern Chile and Argentina. He was taken to England by Captain FitzRoy in HMS Beagle and became a celebrity for a period.
Read more about Jemmy Button: HMS Beagle, Arrival in England, Return To Patagonia, Wulaia Bay Massacre, Death, Cultural References, Bibliography
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“What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side?—from sorrow to sorrow?—to button up one cause of vexation!—and unbutton another!”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)