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went with Sir Thomas Cavendifh, in 1592, into Port Defire, fount! 

 there, people, that where 16 hands high, which amounts to fix feet, 

 reckoning a hand at 44 inches. 



Richard Hawkins * like wife 



.fpeaks of tall people at Port St. Julian, in 1593, fo tall that they 



are often taken by voyagers 



for giants. There are fome Spaniards, 



who pretend that in the back of Chili, are a people of ten or twelve 



ant is too vague, and has not authority 



feet high : b 



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which may be depended upon, we will make no ufe of it. 



ever, from the above m.entioned numerous accounts, it appears, tnat 



the continent of A 



near Cape Virgin Mary, there 



nation, whofe individuals undoubtedly are mofl remarkably flout 

 and tall, none of them feem to be below five feet ten inches, feve- 

 ral are above fix feet, one was meafured fix feet feven inches high ; 



nay, according to 



Pigafetta, fome are 



i\\A to be i^\tn feet four 



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.inches ; in the mxore interior parts of South America, are tribes of a 



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• fize flill greater than thofe v/ho were meafured by Captain Wallisj 

 for Mr. Falkner, -f v/ho fpent feveral years among thefe na- 



. tions, defcribes the great Cacique Cangapol, who refided at Huichin 



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the Black River, as being feven feet and fome inches high, be- 



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fe on tiptoe, he could not reach to the top of his head : and he 



ift ever to have iz^n^ an Indian th 



adds, that he did not recolk 



above an inch or two taller than Cangapol j and the brother of this 



vtall Cacique, 



was about fix feet high : thefe brethren belonged to 



the 



^'^ Hawkins's Voyage to the South Seas. London, 1632, 

 f Falkr.er's Defcrlption of Pata^oma. p. 36, iii, 112. 



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