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    Orundellico, known as "Jeremy Button" or "Jemmy Button" or "Jimmy Button" (c. 1815–1864), was a member of the Yaghan (or Yámana) people from islands around...
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  • Basket, were returned to their home along with Jemmy Button. (See "The Return of Fuegia Basket, Jemmy Button, and York Minster") This quote is translated...
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  • Pinochet's victims dumped in the sea and partly by the button after which the Yaghan native Jemmy Button was named when taken aboard HMS Beagle in 1830. The...
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    hostage, known as Boat Memory, estimated age 20, and on 11 May captured Jemmy Button, estimated age 14. As it was not possible to easily put them ashore,...
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    take her and three other Fuegians, "York Minster", "Boat Memory", and "Jemmy Button", to England where they could be educated and taught Christianity so...
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  • Jack Button (1940-1996), National Hockey League executive Jemmy Button (c. 1815–1864), a native of Tierra del Fuego taken to England Jen Button (born...
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  • the preferred option. Jemmy Botting (1783–1837), hangman at Newgate Prison Jemmy Button (c. 1815–1864), a native Fuegian Jemmy Cato, leader of the Stono...
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    year on, the mission had been abandoned. The Fuegian they had named Jemmy Button lived like the other natives, had a wife, and had no wish to return to...
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    aboriginally distinct species or races." He drew on his memories of Jemmy Button and John Edmonstone to emphasise "the numerous points of mental similarity...
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    resembled a basket), the younger boy Jemmy Button (FitzRoy allegedly 'purchased' him with a large pearl button), the man York Minster (after the large...
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