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(33). South of the Calens were the Lechei or Lecheyeles, and south 

 of the Tayatafar were the Requinagueres sr Yequmaguoros (32-33). 

 Father Garcia further distinguishes between the Chonos and Cau- 

 cahues and states that the former in earUer times lived in the Ofqui 

 Peninsula region (Hervas, a, 16; h, vol. i, 125-126), although he else- 

 where (Diario, 40) speaks of the Guaiteeas Islanders as Chonos. 



Beranger in 1768 in his instructions to Sotomayor and Machado 

 {An. hiilr., xiv, 72) refers to the Caucahues, and m 1773 {Relacion 

 jeogr., 13-14) speaks of the Taitao Peninsula and Guaiteeas or Guafo 

 or Chonos Archipelagos as inhabited by the nomadic ''guaiguenes i 

 chonos." 



Father Falkner in 1774 (98-99) divided the coastal region from 

 Valdivia to the Strait of Magellan between two groups, the Pichi 

 Huilliches who extended as far south as the sea of Chiloe and ranged 

 into the Lake Naguelhuapi country, and the Vuta Huilliches from 

 Chiloe south. The Vuta Huilliches were in turn divided into the 

 Chonos who lived ''on and near the islands of Chiloe," the Poy-yus 

 or Peyes who dwelt on the coast from 48° to a little beyond 51°, and 

 the Key-yus or Keyes or Key-yuhues (111) from the latter point to 

 the Strait of Magellan. 



Father Molina in 1776-1782 (b, 340) divides the eastern territory 

 between the southern boundary of Chile and the Strait among the 

 Poyas, a tall people related to the Patagonians (a, 226), and the 

 Caucau, of medium stature. Fathers Marin and Ileal in 1779 (217) 

 refer to the ''Chonos, Caucahues and others" south of Chiloe. 

 Moraleda in 1786-1796 (327, 124 and passim) speaks of the southern 

 natives settled on Cailin and later on Chaulinec and Apiao as Guai- 

 huenes (i. e., "del sur") or Chonos. Ascasubi in 1789 (Gay, Doc, 

 I, 315-316) calls the Huar, Cailin and Chaulinec Mission Indians, 

 Chonos and Caucahues, and mentions the Payos of southern Chilo6. 



Father Gonzalez de Agiieros in 1791 (185, 188) follows in the main 

 Father Garcia's division, omitting, however, the Caucahues and 

 Requinagueres and adding the Taruche6s. Perez Garcia in 1810 

 {Col hist. Chile, xxii, 31-32, 34-35, 109-110) follows literally Father 

 Falkner's division. 



Admiral Fitz-Roy suspected that the Chonos, who prior to the 

 Spanish conquest had inhabited Chiloe and the Chonos Archipelago, 

 had by his time (1836) all migrated to the south of Cape Tres Montes 

 {a, 142), between which and the Strait there was but one tribe (a, 

 132, 189) whom he called the Chonos. In this last respect Admiral 

 Fitz-Roy has been foUowed by Prof. Ratzel (6) and recently by the 

 late Prof. Chamberlain (6, 467, "25° " is evidently a misprint for 52°). 

 As we have seen, however, these "Chonos" were in all likelihood 

 Alacaluf. 



Dr. Prichard (a, vol. v, 485) follows Father Falkner. According 

 to Dr. Deniker (c, Fr. ed., 631 \ the Chilotan and Chonos archipelagos 



