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the Europeans, the most honourable station, con- 

 trary to the practice of the Asiatics, with whom 

 the left enjoys that privilege. They are na- 

 turally fond of honourable distinction, and there 

 is nothing they can endure with less patience 

 than contempt or inattention. From hence, if 

 a Spaniard speaks to one of them with his hat 

 on, he immediately says to him in an indignant 

 tope, entugo tami curtesia, take off your hat. 

 By attention and courtesy, any thing may be 

 obtained from them, and the favours which they 

 receive make an indelible impression upon their 

 minds, while on the contrary, ill treatment ex- 

 asperates them to such a degree, that they pro- 

 ceed to the greatest excesses to revenge them- 

 selves. 



The names of the Araucanians are composed 

 of the proper name, which is generally either an f 

 adjective or a numeral, and the family appella- 

 tion or surname, which is alwayi^ placed after 

 the proper name, according to the European 

 custom, as cari-lemu, green bush : mell-antu, 

 four suns. The first denotes one of the family 

 of the lemus, or bushes, and the second one of 

 that of the antus, or suns. Nor is there scarcely 

 a material object which does not furnish them 

 with a discriminative name. From hence, we 

 meet among them with the families of Rivers, 

 Mountains, Stones, Lions, &c. These families, 



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