Ill 



of cliiapeton, by which tbejr are known in South 

 America. They afterwards called them huinca; 

 this injurious appellation, which from time and 

 custom has lost its odiousness, comes from the 

 vesb huincun, which signifies to assassinate. It is 

 true that in their first battles the Spaniards gave 

 ihem too much reason for applying to them these 

 opprobrious epithets, which serve to the present 

 time to denote one of that nation. Esteeming 

 themselves fortunate in their barbarity, they call 

 those Indians who live in the Spanish settlements 

 cubne-huinca^ or wretched Spaniards. To the 

 other Europeans, the English, French, and 

 Italians, whom they readily distinguish from 

 each other, they give the name of maruche, 

 which is equivalent to the term moro, used by 

 the common people of Spain to denote all 

 strangers indiscriminately. They call each other 

 peg?iiy that is brothers, and even apply the same 

 name to those bom in their country of foreign 

 parents. 



The benevolence and kindness with which 

 these people generally treat each other is really 

 surprising. For the word friend they have six 

 or seven very expressive terms in their language., 

 among others that of canay, which corresponds 

 to the alter ego of the Latins. The relations 

 that result from corresponding situations or 

 common concerns in life are so many ties of re- 

 gard, and are expressed by appropriate words 



