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tion of the original, being instead a paraphrase and a considerably 

 amplified and modified one from the French (1610 edition) and the 

 Latin versions. 



The passage in van Noort's original Dutch journal reads (6, un- 

 dated ed., said to be of 1j601, p. 27; ditto in 1602 ed., Rotterdam, with 

 two words a little differently spelled) : ' ' Dese Wilden hebben voor haer 

 gheweer groote sware Cnodsen / met een langhe zee! daer aen / daerse 

 mede slaen / ende langhe houte Hasegay / die sy wte hant worpen / 

 daer van ^vy eenighe vonden ende aenboort brochten." There is no 

 question here of anything but a heavy club with a long thong on it. 

 And in this sense is the passage translated in the various versions (cf. 

 French, 1602 and 1610, 18, and German in de Bry, i, pt. 9, 31-32, 

 both from orig. Dutch; French, de Renneville's tr. from Commelin, 

 11, 25). It may be added that the bolas, in its migration down the 

 Patagonian pampas, seemingly did not reach the Strait until a cen- 

 tury or more after van Noort's voyage (Outes, a, 427, 254). 



A not uncommon Onan and Yahgan weapon for hunting seals from 

 land is a spear with a thong tied to it, the other end of the thong 

 being tied around the body of the hunter (Th. Bridges, h, July 1, 1879, 

 158; /, 314; i, in Hyades, q, 8-9; C. Gallardo, 204-205), but the thong 

 would be of less or no value tied to a club. Dr. Friederici believes 

 (h, 13, 66-67) that what van Noort saw was a throwing club 

 ("Wurfkeule")- But Dr. Friederici's interpretation of the passage 

 in van Noort seems, at the best, doubtful. 



For (1) the "daerse mede slaen" qualifying "Cnodsen" certainly 

 seems to contrast with the "die sy wte hant worpen" qualifying 

 "Hasegay"; this conveys the impression that the clubs were used, not 

 for throwing, as the spears were, but for smitmg. (2) ' ' Large heavy " 

 clubs are much more likely to have been used for smiting than for 

 throwing. (3) It is doubtful whether the word "zeel" was found in 

 van Noort's origmal manuscript or not; for the passage in the Extract 

 oft Kort verhael (van Noort, a) under January 8, 1600, reads: "Dese 

 wilde hebben voor geweer sware knodsen met een lange steel / ende 

 langhe houten hasegay en / diese met grooter felheyt wter handt 

 worpen." Here there is question'only of "clubs with a long handle." 

 The Extract was, according to Dr. Tiele, probably published before 

 the full journal. Whether, therefore, van Noort's original manu- 

 script read "zeel" or "steel" remains doubtful. 



If the former, a passage in Father Garcia 's diary may explain the 

 purpose of the thong. His Caucahue or Chono companions, when 

 swimming up to the seals they were hunting, took along a lasso and 

 "un palo macizo como de ocho a nueve palmos de largo, que asegu- 

 raron al cuello para que no les embarazase el poder nadar " (a, 6). If, 

 on the contrary, "steel" be the original reading, then van Noort 

 probably saw such long clubs as the Chonos used for killing seals by 

 knocking them on the head (A. Campbell, 58-59) . 

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