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impressions received from Pigafetta’s narrative, many thought 
the Indians whom they met must be giants, whilst others, not 
finding them so large as they expected, spoke more cautiously 
on the subject ; but the people seen by them must have been 
Fuegians, and not those whom we now recognise by the name 
of Patagonians. 
Sir Francis Drake’s fleet put into Port San Julian, where 
they found natives ‘of large stature ;? and the author of the 
‘ World Encompassed,’ in which the above voyage is detailed, 
speaking of their size and height, supposes the name given 
them to have been Pentagones, to denote a stature of “ five 
cubits, viz. seven feet and ahalf,” and remarks that it described 
the full height, if not somewhat more, of the tallest of them.* 
They spoke of the Indians whom they met within the Strait 
as small in stature. 
The next navigator who passed through the Strait was 
Sarmiento; whose narrative says little in proof of the very 
superior size of the Patagonians. He merely calls them “‘ Gente 
Grande,”} and “ los Gigantes ;” but this might have originated 
from the account of Magalhaens’ voyage. He particularises 
but one Indian, whom they made prisoner, and only says ‘ his 
limbs are of large size:” (“ Es crecido de miembros.”) This 
man was a native of the land near Cape Monmouth, and, 
therefore, a Fuegian. Sarmiento was afterwards in the neigh- 
bourhood of Gregory Bay, and had an encounter with the 
Indians, in which he and others were wounded ; but he does 
not speak of them as being unusually tall. 
After the establishment, called ‘ Jesus,’ was formed by 
Sarmiento, in the very spot where ‘ giants’ had been seen, no 
people of large stature are mentioned, in the account of the 
colony; but Tomé Hernandez, when examined before the 
Vice-Roy of Peru, stated, “that the Indians of the plains, who 
are giants, communicate with the natives of Tierra del Fuego, 
who are like them.$ 
Anthony Knyvet’s account || of Cavendish’s second voyage 
* Burney, i. 318. + Ibid, i. 324. t Sarmiento, p. 244. 
§ Sarmiento’s Appendix, xxix. || Purchas, iv. ch. 6 and 7. 
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