of ahorfe; and like this laft animal, it neighs*. This man likewife wore a fort offkoe, made of the fame {kin f. He held in his left hand a fhort and maffive bow, thefiring of which, fomewhat thicker than that of a lute, was made of the inteftines of thefame animal; in the other hand he held arrows, made of fhort reeds, with feathersat one end, fimilar to ours, and at the other, inftead of iron, a white and black flintftone. With the fame ftone they likewife form inftruments to work wood with.
_ The captain-general gave him victuals and drink, and among other trifles prefentedhim with a large fteel mirror. The giant, who had not the leaft conception of thistrinket, and who faw his likenefs, now, perhaps, for the firft time, ftarted back in fotuuch fright, as to knock down four of our men who happened to ftand behind him."We gave him fome little bells, a fmall looking-glafs, a comb, and fome glafs beads;after which he was fet on fhore, accompanied by four men well armed.
His comrade, who had objefted to coming on board the fhip, feeing him return,fan to advife his comrades, who perceiving that our armed men advanced towardsthem, ranged themlelves in file without arms, and almoft naked : they immediatelybegan dancing and finging, in the courfe of which they raifed the fore-finger toheaven, to make us comprehend that it was thence they reckoned us to havedefcended. They at the fame time fhewed us a white powder, in cla-y pans, andprefented it to us, having nothing elfe to offer us to eat; our people invited them byfigns to come on board our fhip, and proffered to carry on board with them whateverthey might wifh. They accepted the invitation; but the men, who merely carried ahow and arrow, loaded every thing on the women, as if they had been fo many beafts°f burthen J.
The women are not of equal fize with the men, but in recompenfe they are muchrt'ore lufty. Their breafts, which hang down, are more than a foot in length ; theyP a int, and drefs in the fame manner as their hufbands, but they have a thin fkin ofhome animal, with which they cover their nudity. They were, in our contemplation,har from handfome, neverthelefs their hufbands feemed very jealous.
The women led four of the animals, of which I have previoufly fpoken, m a firing,hut they were young ones. They make ufe of thefe young to catch the old ones ithey faffen them to a tree, the old ones come to play with them, when from theirconcealment the men kill them with their arrows. The inhabitants of the country,ftoth men and women, being invited by our people to repair to the vicinage of thehl P s > divided themfelves into two parties, one on each fide the port, and divertedUs with an exhibition of the mode of hunting before recited.
Six days afterwards, while our people were employed in felling Wood for the fhips,he y haw another giant, dreffed like thofe we had parted with, and like them armed withnow and arrow. On approaching our people he touched his head and body, afterwardsmng his hands to heaven, geftures which the men imitated. The captain-general,n ormed of this circumftance, fent the fkiff on fhore, to conduct him to the iflet, in
and • ~ an imal is the guanaco (camelus huanacus, Linn.), of which genus naturalifts efteem the lama
Vlc una, a fpecies of camel, or rather theep, well known from its valuable fleece. The defcriptionthe C p °* t ^ 1 ' 3 . amm al by the author perfectly correfponds with the guanaco ; and all travellers relate thatCor r e f. ata 8 on * a ns are clothed in its fkin. We have, in our mufeum, a leg of this animal, which exaftlyf 0o ' pon . da with the defcription given of it by Buffon. (Supplem. tom. vi. p.204). This leg is oneen inches long, though cut off below the knee.
Ma Jlj “ ° n , account of this Ihoe, which made the feet of this man refemblc the foot of a bear, that+ j a . n this people Patagonians. See Debry, America;, lib. iv. p. 66.
Portio 18 an - pbfeyvation generally made in all countries, and in all ages, that women are treated in pro-n to civilization, well or ill, and molt coarfely where the leaft civilization exifts.
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