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====Yámana==== [[Yamana people|Yámanas]] of [[South America]] used fire to send messages by smoke signals, for instance if a whale drifted ashore.<ref>Gusinde 1966:137–139, 186</ref> The large amount of meat required notification of many people so that it would not be wasted.<ref>Itsz 1979:109</ref> They might also have used smoke signals on other occasions—thus it is possible that Magellan saw such fires and was inspired to name the landscape [[Tierra del Fuego]] ("Land of Fire"); however, he may have seen the smoke or lights of natural phenomena.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pages.interlog.com/~erhard/uttermos.htm |title=The Patagonian Canoe |publisher=Pages.interlog.com |access-date=2013-02-19}}</ref><ref>Extracts from the following book. E. Lucas Bridges: ''Uttermost Part of the Earth. Indians of Tierra del Fuego.'' 1949, reprinted by Dover Publications, Inc (New York, 1988).</ref>
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