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Copper engraving, drawn by Captain Robert Fitzroy and engraved by Thomas Landseer in 1838, and published by Henry Colburn in the "Narrative of the Voyages of HMS Adventure and Beagle", Volume II, 1839. Fitzroy's own agenda on the Voyage of the Beagle with Darwin was to return three native Fuegians he had taken on a previous voyage, and "civilized" in Britain. Darwin shared the ship with them on the outward journey, but nothing quite prepared him for the Fuegians in a "state of nature." Over thirty years later he wrote in the "Descent of Man" "the astonishment which I felt on first seeing a party of Fuegians on a wild and broken shore will never be forgotten by me, for the reflection at once rushed to my mind -- such were our ancestors." All the Fuegians rapidly adopted their old customs to survive. Ultimately the Fuegians went extinct.