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de Dios Archipelagos. The Salesian fathers are in close touch with 

 the Alacaluf at Dawson Island. They also make journeys into 

 Alacalufan territory, and in 1910 Father Renzi (Cojazzi, 16) made 

 an extensive tour, but I have not at hand exact data of their routes. 



Finally, Dr. Skottsberg brought back from his expedition of 1908 

 some important new linguistic material gathered in the territory in 

 question. From a detailed comparison of this material with the 

 Alacalufan vocabularies published by Admiral Fitz-Roy and Dr. 

 Hyades, he concludes that the Alacaluf are all south of the Strait. 

 All the disputed territory is occupied by a non-Alacalufan people 

 whom he calls ''West Patagonian Canoe Indians." They would 

 speak a language totally different from the Alacalufan (Skottsberg, 

 (Z, 614, 580, 611; 6, 242-243). 



So much for the chief views. As appears, the general tendency of 

 recent writers, if we except Dr. Skottsberg, is to allot part or aU of 

 the West Patagonian Channel region to the Alacaluf. We may now 

 investigate the available evidence — linguistic^ somatological, and 

 cultural. 



A. Linguistic Evidence 



Nothing has thus far been published on Alacalufan gi-ammar, if 

 we except a brief note of doubtful value by Lieut. CevaUos (Vargas 

 Ponce, h, 27) and the mere general statements by the Rev. Mr. 

 Bridges (Barclay, a, 66) and Dr. Spegazzini {c, 132) that the Alaca- 

 lufan diffei's structurally from the Yahgan tongue. We are obliged, 

 therefore, to confine our comparative study to the available lexical 

 material. 



In compiling the comparative glossary given below, 15 of the 17 

 extant vocabularies have been utilized, as have also some stray 

 words occurring in various narratives. The present writer unfor- 

 tunately has not had access to Dr. Spegazzini's (e) short list, nor to 

 Messrs. Tliomas and Despard Bridges' lengthy one (t), both being 

 still in manuscript. Fuller details regarding the sources used are 

 given in the Author Bibliography. It will be sufficient here briefly 

 to classify and describe the utilized lexical material. 



The more important vocabularies used are the following: La 

 Guilbaudiere's (8-13; Marcel, h) of 225 words and phrases gathered 

 between 1688 ' and 1696 in the Port Gallant district; Admiral Fitz- 

 Roy's (6, 135-140) of 208 words gathered in 1830-31 from the four 

 natives, three of them Alacaluf of the Brecknock Peninsula region, 

 whom he took to England; Dr. Hyades' (q, 272-277) of the same 

 208 words gathered in 1882-83 from an Alacaluf woman whom he 

 attended for a long time at Orange Bay in Yahgan territory; Fatlior 



1 Or perhaps 1685 (Of. Manuel de Odriozola's Coleccion de documentos literarios del Peru, n, Lima, 1804, 

 p. 18). 



