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and affix between H-Fi and his own list. He has made no allowance 

 for Yahgan and Ona-Tehuelche infiiience in the respective groups. 

 Finally, he has hardly taken sufficient account of the various other 

 sources of divergence adverted to above. 



A few other considerations have a bearing on the point: (1) 

 Emilia spoke of herself and the people met by Dr. Skottsberg as 

 Alukulup, and it is unlikely that she would be mistaken regarding 

 her own tribe's name or that as Dr. Skottsberg agrees two tribes 

 speaking different languages should have the same name. (2) Sk 

 agrees with Sp, but Dr. Spegazzini's route barely touched the ex- 

 treme eastern fringe of the territory assigned by Dr. Skottsberg to 

 the West Patagonian canoe people, and that only en route between 

 Punta Arenas and Beagle Channel. Capt. Bove and Dr. Lovisato met 

 some Alacaluf at Ushuaia Mission (Hyades, q, 13) and it is probable 

 that the plant and other names in Sp were obtained from these 

 natives. (3) Sk agrees in the main with Lu and Se; but the natives 

 exhibited in Europe by Herr Hagenbeck were, so all competent 

 authorities agree, true Alacaluf even if perhaps with a tinge of Ona 

 blood (Th. Bridges, l, 1883, 139) . (4) Most important of all, Sk agrees 

 almost perfectly with Bo; but although Father Borgatello's mission 

 Alacaluf speak some Spanish and Father Borgatello and Brother 

 Xikora some Alacalufan, and although in addition the Salesians have 

 been in contact with the Alacaluf for over 20 years, no indication in 

 all that time has been found by the missionaries that any other 

 language is spoken by the canoe-using natives called Alacaluf who 

 frequent the Dawson Island missions (Cojazzi, private communi- 

 cation, citing Prof. Tonelli). The present writer has been unable to 

 get precise details of the provenance of Father Borgatello's informants, 

 but they are probably in the main from the territory east of Port 

 Gallant and south of the Strait; for of the 9 Alacaluf measured by 

 Dr. Outes (c, 220) at Dawson Island Mission in 1908, 3 came from 

 Port Gallant, 2 from Magdalen Channel, 2 from Admiralty Sound, 

 1 from C. S. Pedro and S. Paolo, and 1 from Port Harris, these last 

 two places being on Dawson Island. For the rest. Dr. Skottsberg 

 himself agrees that the Dawson Island Mission ''Alacaluf" are 

 reaUy members of this tribe {d, 616). 



In view of the above facts the present writer is unable to accept 

 Dr. Skottsberg' s theory that there is a fourth Fuegian language 

 totally different from the Alacalufan; but in any event the "West 

 Patagonian" vocabulary is of great value, not only for its length and 

 apparent exactness, but still more for the fact that it proves the 

 Alacalufan language to be spoken by natives of the West Patagonian 

 channels as far north as Port Grappler and perhaps as far as the 

 Gulf of Penas, just as Senor Iriarte's list gave evidence that Alacalu- 

 fan is spoken as far west and north as the Ultima Speranza district. 



