6 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY Ibcll. g3 



Patagonia. Then, too, in Mr. Bridges' time, the Dawson Islanders, 

 who were as much Onan as Alacalufan in appearance, used to hunt 

 deer as far as the Patagonian coast (Th. Bridges, h, June 1, 1883, 

 139; Feb. 1, 1886, 33). This might explain Admiral Fitz-Roy's 

 theory of the Huemuls' mixed origin. 



Bougainville (2d ed., i, 276, 290) and many after him called the 

 Canoe Indians of the central part of the Strait Pecherais or Peche- 

 rais (spelled by others Pechera, Pecheri, Pesserai, Pissiri, etc.), from 

 the expression they constantly used. It is not a tribal name, but 

 its meaning is unknown. That it signified "friends" as Mr. Griewe 

 (234), following Vargas Ponce (a, 349), states, or "son," "child," 

 "boy," "man," as Lieut. Cevallos believed (Vargas Ponce, h, 28), is 

 very doubtful, to say the least. 



The canoe-using natives of Brunswick Peninsula and King William 

 IV Land were called Guaicaros according to Sefior Lista (d; e, 41), 

 while Senor Cox spoke (162f, 165) of a supposedly mixed Tchuel- 

 chean and Fuegian people of the north shore of the Strait called Huai- 

 curiies. According to the latter writer, they spoke a Tehuelchean 

 dialect, but Senor Lista's Guaicaro vocabulary (ibid.) is Alacalufan. 



Father Fallaier's Poy-yus or Peyes and Key-yus or Keyes (98-99) 

 are classed by some writers as Alacalufan. Such classification rests 

 on no tangible evidence. 



Van Noort (h, 1st ed., 21; Commelin, i, 10; de Brosses, i, 298-299) 

 was told that the natives met, and, incidentally, massacred, on the 

 Penguin Islands, that is St. Martha and St. Magdalen Islands, in 1599, 

 called themselves Enoo, and that other kindred tribes were the 

 Kemenetes of Karay, the Kennekas of Karamay, and the Karaike of 

 Morine. La Guilbaudiere in 1688-1696 divided the Magellanic 

 natives into the Laguediche of the eastern mouth of the Strait of 

 ^lagcllan, the Teste igdiche of Jelouchetez Strait, that is, probably 

 Magdalen Channel, and the Havequediche or Haucquediclic and 

 Cadogdiche of the St. Jerome Chamicl region and beyond; these were 

 tlie names, he said, by wliich they called themselves (18-19; cf. also 

 Villefort). Some of these names recur in Brinton (c, 331-332), Fr. 

 Muller (a, 276), and d'Orbigny (b, Voyage, iv, pt. i, 187), but it would 

 be unsafe to put reliance in them as distinct tribal names. Perliaps 

 they were local clan or family names. 



Of the use of the name Chonos" to designate the Alacalufan natives 

 of the West Patagonian Cliannels more will be said later. . 



Territory 



What territory do tlie Alacaluf occupy? There is great diver- 

 gence of opinion. It will ])e well to distinguish between what is cer- 

 tain and agreed upon and what is questioned. 



