Brinton.] o4 [Feb. 5, 



several anonymous accounts, by different hands, of a voyage (or 

 voyages) to the east coast of Patagonia, " desde Cabo Blanco hasta 

 las Virgines," one of which is dated December, 1789. Neither the 

 name of the ship nor that of the commander appears. 



Among the material are two vocabularies of the Tsoneca or 

 Tehuelhet dialect, comprising about sixty words and ten numerals. 

 These correspond closely with the various other lists of terms col- 

 lected by travelers. At the close of the MS., however, there is a 

 short vocabulary of an entirely different linguistic stock, without 

 name of collector, date or place, unless the last words, "a la 

 Soleta," refer to some locality. Elsewhere the same numerals are 

 given, and a few words, evidently from some dialect more closely 

 akin to the Tsoneca, and the name Hongote is applied to the 

 tongue. This may be a corruption of "C^lhoonke," the name 

 which Ramon Lista and other Spanish writers apply to the Tsoneca 

 (Hongote ■=. Chongote = Choonke = Tsoneca). 



The list which I copy below, however, does not seem closely 

 allied to the Tehuelhet nor to any other tongue with which I have 

 compared it. 



The MS. is generally legible, though to a few words I have 

 placed an interrogation mark, indicating that the handwriting was 

 uncertain. The sheet contains the following : 



Descripcion del Indio. 

 Caveza, seyocup. 



