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==Return to Patagonia== One year later, Captain Fitzroy returned the three surviving Fuegians home. He took with him a young naturalist, [[Charles Darwin]], on what was the [[second voyage of HMS Beagle|second voyage of HMS ''Beagle'']]. After initial difficulty recalling his language and customs, Orundellico / Jemmy soon shed his European clothes and habits. A few months after his arrival, he was seen emaciated, naked save for a loincloth, and long-haired. Nevertheless, he declined the offer to return to England, which Darwin conjectured was due to the presence of his "young and nice looking wife".<ref name="beagle">Charles Darwin, [https://books.google.com/books?id=KMc6FWMnS6AC&pg=PA139 ''The Voyage of the Beagle''] p. 139. Retrieved 1 August 2011</ref> It appears that he and the others had taught their families some English.<ref name="beagle" /> Darwin noted in his [[The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex|''The Descent of Man'']] that Jemmy Button, probably like other Fuegians, did not have any concept of God or Devil. In ''The Descent of Man,'' he suggests that Button never understood the plan to convert Fuegians to Christianity and "with justifiable pride, stoutly maintained that there was no devil in his land."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Toumey |first=Christopher P. |date=1987 |title=Jemmy Button |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0003161500073764/type/journal_article |journal=The Americas |language=en |volume=44 |issue=2 |pages=195β207 |doi=10.2307/1007290 |jstor=1007290 |s2cid=251414437 |issn=0003-1615|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
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