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Drink to the uncivilised man is a clanger against which he is pro- 

 vided with no defence, either social or moral. Having- once tasted 



AKKOUHKAUS AM; KNIFE, KUU.NU .\1:AR COLOHUAri, CllLliUT. (NuW l.\ CuI.I.KCTION OF 



MK. E. M. SPKOT) 



its fatal pleasures, he has no reason for forbidding himself an 

 indulgence his animal nature craves. 



Since the day on which the Spanish adventurers first sighted 

 the Patagonian coast, perhaps the one "event" in the history of 

 the Indians may truly be said to be the introduction of horses into 

 their land. Otherwise they seem to have altered little in their 

 way of life. Magellan says they came down to the sh'p clad and 

 shod in i^uanaco-skins ; thev are clad and shod in cruanaco-skins 

 to-day. Their tools and knives were sharp-edged flints ; I have 

 seen the Indians skin their (juarry with precisely the same weapons. 



Bows and arrows were indeed in use among the tribes when 

 the Spaniards visited the coast ; these ha\e now been superseded 

 b\" the do/eadores, an innovation which in its prcstiu tnrm came 

 into fashion after the Indians bet-an to know the value of the 



