368 Morton’s Crania Americana. 
were intellectually superior to the surrounding nations, passion- 
ately devoted to war, and victorious over the other tribes. 'They 
forced their women to work in the field and carry burdens; they 
paid little respect to old age, were not much affected by love, 
were regardless of connubial obligations, and addicted to suicide. 
“They were proud, audacious, and vindictive, untiring in the 
pursuit of an enemy, and remorseless in the gratification of their 
revenge. ‘Their religious ideas were vague, and their cautious- 
ness and cunning proverbial. They were finally subdued an 
nearly exterminated by the Anglo-Americans in 1779. Some 
miserable remnants of them, ruined by intoxicating liquors, still 
exist in the state of New York.” The following is the skull of a 
Huron, one of these nations. 
Huron, Fig. 6. 
The following are average measurements of the five skulls of 
these nations given by Dr. Morton: internal capacity, 88; coro- 
nal region, 15; anterior chamber, 31.5; posterior chamber, 50 
cubic inches. = 3 
The Aravcantans are the most celebrated and powerful of the 
Chilian tribes. They inhabit the region between the rivers Bio- 
bio and Valdivia, and between the Andes and the sea, and derive 
their name from the province of Arauco. “ They are a robust 
