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wardly upon the Pehuencbes, fror . 35 to 38 degrees south, 

 and extend along tUe rivers Sanquel, Colorado, and Hueyque, 

 nearly to tlie Casuh'^ti on tli east. This nation, and that of 

 the Taluhets, are collectively called Pampas by the Spaniards, 

 whose settlements in Tucunian and on the southern shore of 

 the Plata they have always infested, and sometimes endangered* 

 3. The Chechehets, or people of the east: the country which 

 they chiefly frequent is between the rivers Hueyque and the 

 first Desaguadero, or river Colorado, and from thence to the 

 second Desaguadero, or river Negro. They are a wandering 

 race, tali and stout like the Patagons, but they speak a dif- 

 ferent laugoage : their dispositions ^re friendly and inoffensive, 

 but when provoked they ^re a bold and active enemy. The 

 ^all-pox has reduced them to a very small number. 4. The 

 Tehuelhets, or in their own language Tehuel-Kunnees, southera 

 aaen ; these are the Patagons. They are divided into many 

 tribes, ail of whom, and the Chechehets also, are called by 

 the Spaniards Serranos, or Mouutaiueers. The Leuvuches, 

 who seem to be the head of all the Serranos, live on the river 

 Negro. They speak the language of the Chechehets, with a 

 small mixture of the Tehuel tongue. It was their policy to 

 he at peace with the Spaniards, that they might hunt securely 

 in the immense plains, or pampas, as they are called, of 

 IBuenos Ayres, but about the year 1740 they were proveked 

 by a most wanton and treacherous attack to take arms j and 

 Buenos Ayres would probably have been destroyed, had not 

 the Jesuit missionaries appeased these injured people. The 

 Tehuelhets are more numerous than all the other Indians of 

 these parts ; they are the enemies of the Moluches, and had 

 they been as well supplied with horses, these latter, who are so 

 tsrriblc to th Spaniards, would long since have been destroyed. 

 To the south of these live the Chulilau-Kunuecs, and Se< 

 |iuau-Kunnees, who are the most southern of the equestriao 

 tribes. The country beyond them to the straits is possessed 

 by the last of the Tehuel nations, who are called Yacana- 



