Editing Jemmy Button (section)

==HMS ''Beagle''==
[[File:HMSBeagle.jpg|thumb|right|HMS ''Beagle'' (centre), watercolor by Owen Stanley (1841)]]

In 1830, Captain Robert FitzRoy, at the command of the first expedition of HMS ''Beagle'', took a group of hostages from the [[Fuegians|Fuegian people]] after one of his ship's [[Whaleboat|whaleboats]] was stolen.<ref name=CNH/> Jemmy Button was paid for with a [[mother of pearl]] [[Button (clothing)|button]], hence his name. It is not clear whether his family willingly accepted the sale or he was simply abducted. FitzRoy decided to take four of the young Fuegian hostages all the way to England "to become useful as interpreters, and be the means of establishing a friendly disposition towards Englishmen on the part of their countrymen."<ref name=CNH>{{Cite book |author1=Jardine, Nicholas |authorlink2=James A. Secord|author2=Secord, James A. |author3=Spary, E. C. | title=Cultures of natural history | date=1996 | publisher=Cambridge University Press | location=Cambridge  | isbn=978-0-521-55894-5 | page=331}}</ref> He seems to have shown great concern for the four, feeding them before his own officers and crew and intending them to be educated and Christianised so that they could improve the conditions of their kin.

The names given to the Fuegians by the crew were York Minster, Jemmy Button, [[Yokcushlu|Fuegia Basket]] (a girl) and Boat Memory.<ref name=CNH/> 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.