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by nine of our men, and his hands bound ; but he suddenly loosed 

 himself and fled, as did also the other that came with them. In their 

 flying, they shot off their Arrowes, and slew one of our men. They 

 say, that when any of them die, there appear ten or twelve Deuills, 

 leaping and dancing about the bodie of the dead, and seeme to haue 

 their bodies painted with diuers colours, and that among other there 

 is one seene bigger than the residue, who maketh great mirth and 

 rejoicing. This great Devill they call Setehos, and call the less Ckeleule. 

 One of these Giants which they tooke, declared by signes that hee had 

 seene Devils with two homes above their heads, with long hayre downe 

 to their feet, and that they cast forth fire at their throats, both before 

 and behind. The Captaine named these people Patagoni. The most of 

 them weare the Skinnes of such Beasts whereof I have spoken before, 

 and haue no Houses of continuance ; but make certaine Cottages, which 

 they couer with the said Skinnes, and carry them from place to place 

 They live of raw Flesh and a certaine sweet Koot, which they call Gapar 

 They are very jealous of their Women. When they are sicke at the 

 stomacke, they put an Arrow half a yard or more downe the Throat, 

 which makes them vomit greene choler and bloud. For head-ach, they 

 make a cut ouer the for-head, and let themselves bloud. The like 

 they doe on the arme, or legge, in any Aches. They cut their hayre 

 like Friers, but a little longer, and binde it with a Cotton hayre-lace." 

 " One of these which they had in their shippes, did eat at one meale a 

 Basket of Bisket, and drinke a Bowie of Water at a draught." 



In the narrative of Cavendish's voyage, not far from the 

 close of the same century, namely in 1586, it is related that 

 at Port Desire — 



" A Man and a Boy, in washing their clothes in a Pit, were hurt by 

 the Savages arrowes, which are made of Canes, headed with flints. They 

 are very wilde. We took the measure of one of their feete, and it was 

 eighteene inches long. Their vse is when any of them die, to bring him 

 or them to the Cliffes by the Sea-side, and upon the top of them they 

 burie them, and in their graves are buried with them their Bowes and 

 Arrowes, and all their Jewels which they have in their lifetime, which 

 are fine shells which they find by the Sea side, which they cut and 

 square after an artificiall maner ; and all is laid vnder their heads. 

 The grave is made all with great stones of great length and bignesse, 

 being set all along full of the dead man's Darts, which he vsed when 



