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Vvho is noi llie owner of one or two. Asbcs die in a short time 

 ?.flcr tlif V arc transported tliillier, whenre there is not a nnile 

 lo be found throughout the wliole of the Archipelago. The 

 uiiinnils that are met with in the greatest abundance are sheep 

 and hogs, in which llie inhabitants carry on a considerable 

 trade. The wild animals, natural to the country, are deers, 

 fitters, and a species of black fox. Domestic fowls, as well 

 as wild, are produced there in great numbers. Tn addition to 

 these, the benevolent Author of Nature has, as an iudenniity 

 for those things of which they are destitute, provided all these 

 islands with vast quautities of excellent lish of all kinds. Am- 

 bergris, of a superior quality, is also found there, and much 

 honey, which is made l)y the wild bees. Wood is likewise 

 very plentiful, and of a kind fitted for every sort of manu- 

 facture and ship-building. 



Tliis Archipelago was first discovered in the year 155S, by 

 Don Garcia de Mendoza, governor ol' Chili, but no attempt 

 \vas then made to conquer it. But in l.jG.j, Uon Martino Ruiz 

 (janiboa was ient there, who, with only sixty men, subjecled 

 its inhabitants, to the nundier of seventy thousand, without 

 experiencing the lea^t resistance, and Ibundt d, in the principal 

 inland, the city of * Castro antl the port of Chaca. 'I'liese 

 Indians, called Chiiotes, remained submissive to Spain, until 

 tlie present century, when they threw oft' the yoke, but were 

 ioon brought under subjection, througli the conduct of 

 general Don Pedro Molina, who was sent irom Conception to 

 reduce them to obeJ.it'Uce. AiUiounh descended fronj the 

 (Miilians, whom they resemble in apj>earance, custom, and hui- 

 guage, these peo|)le are extremeiv timid, and verv docile. 

 'J'hey are reuiarkcsble for their ingenuity, and rt-adily act[uire 

 a kr;owledge of any thing to whirli tlie\ atu)!y tiiemselves. 

 There are amr)ng them very exj^ert carpen'.cM, cbinet-miikers, 



* tic ci.H.'-d if so in honour of l.iipi' Garcia (ii- ('str't, then \'irrrov 

 < 1" Pcii!, iind ijuve hu own iiaQH-, Ga!nl)ou, to tiie river which pa.-ics l)j 

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