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and muscular people, of a lighter complexion than the surround- 

 ing tribes. Endowed with an extraordinary degree of bodily 

 activity, they reach old age with few infirmities, and, generally, 

 retain their sight, teeth, and memory, unimpaired. They are 

 brave, discreet, and cunning to a proverb, patient in fatigue, en- 

 thusiastic in all their enterprises, and fond of war as the only 

 source of distinction." " Their vigilance soon detected the value 

 of the military discipline of the Spaniards, and especially the 

 great importance of cavalry in an army ; and they lost no time 

 in adopting both these resources, to the dismay and discomfiture 

 of their enemies. Thus in seventeen years after their first en- 

 counter with Europeans, they possessed several strong squadrons 

 of horse, conducted their operations in military order, and, unlike 

 the Americans generally, met their enemies in the open field." 

 " They are highly susceptible of mental culture, but they despise 

 the restraints of civilization, and those of them who have been 

 educated in the Spanish colonies, have embraced the first oppor- 

 tunity to resume the haunts and habits of their nation." p. 241. 

 The following is one of three Araucanian skulls delineated in 

 the work. 



Araucanian, Fig. 7. 



The average measurements of the three skulls are as follows : 

 internal capacity, 79 ; coronal region, 15.4 ; anterior chamber 

 32.2 ; posterior chamber, 48.50. 



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