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We faw the greater and mor 



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ciples of humanity and equity, 

 rational part of them extremely cautious in giving us any reafon for 

 complaint, and to fjch a degree were they anxious to prevent 

 hoftilities being commenced by their people, that they feem to have 

 been fenfible of the injuftice of giving the firil provocation, which 

 might bring on a retaliation on our fide 3 nay, they hindered feve^ 

 ral of their people from giving even the leafl umbrage to us.. 



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Medio vera terra faluorls utrhnque mlxtura, fertilh ad omnia iraBus^ magna & In colore temperksy, 

 titus molks, fen/us lujuldus, ingcnia facunda^ totlufqv.c tiafura 'capacia. 



Plinius Hill. Nat. 1. ii. c. 780^ 



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THOUGH the inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego belong to 

 neither of the races of men in the South Sea, being moft pro- 

 bably defcended from fome of the natives in South America, yet we 

 cannot entirely pafs them by in filence. But finding at the fame 

 time, that the greater part of voyagers and compilers, and likewife 



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thofe authors who have made ufe of the various accounts of voy- 

 agers, frequently confound the different nations on the extremity 

 of South America, I will previouily endeavour to fix our 

 relative to the various tribes that are to be met with in thefe parts 



of the world ^ 



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