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APPENDIX. 



ENGLISH. 



PATAGONIAN. 



The Arbutus 



The Cranberry 



Barberry, drinkmade with the 



amacoro, 



pileco. 



licone. 



ENGLISH. 



CHONOS. 



Good Deity 



Bad Spirit 



White Men of the Moon 



yerrt yiipon. 



yaccy-ma. 



cubba. 



No. 16. 



Remarks on the Structure of the Fuegians. 



The general form of the Fuegians is peculiar ; the head and body 

 being particularly large, and the extremities unusually small : but the 

 feet are broad though short. This peculiarity, no doubt, is owing to 

 their mode of life : being a people who take httle exercise, but sit con- 

 stantly huddled together in their canoes or wigwams ; the blood, the 

 source of nourishment, can only circulate freely, and must in greater 

 quantity, in the head and trunk, from the obstruction to its passage into 

 the hmbs, owing to their bent position. From the same cause, the 

 want of exercise, this is the form of the Esquimaux and Laplanders. 



A man whom I examined was of the middle size, five feet seven 

 inches, and his muscular power about a medium ; the circumference 

 of the— 



Ft. in. 



Thorax 3 1 



Abdomen ... ... ... 2 7 



Pelvis 2 5 



Thigh 1 10 



Calf of the leg 1 



Arm 1 



Fore-arm ... ... ... 11 



Length of the head from the 



chin upwards 9 



Length of body, from the 



symphisis pubis to the top 



of the sternum ... ... 2 



Length of thigh 17 



Length of leg 



of arm 



of fore-arm and hand 



from spine to ster- 

 num, externally ... 



same internally 



Breadtii of thorax 



of hypochondriac re- 

 gions 



of pelvis between 



superior and spinous pro- 

 cesses ... ... ... 



Ft. 

 

 1 









 

 



In. 

 17 







17 



13 

 10 

 13 



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