LAKES AND THE DISTANT CORDILLERA : 



five vessels, and, curiously enough, had to cope with a plot against 

 his life when in the same harbour of Port San Julian. The 

 story is well known. Mr. Thomas Doughty, the chief mutineer, 

 was given his choice of death, or of marooning, or to be taken 

 home for trial. He chose death, and was accordingly executed. 

 Drake speaks of the natives as being no taller than some 

 Englishmen. 



During the next hundred years various expeditions touched 

 upon the coasts, some captained by Englishmen, such as Nar- 

 borough, Byron, and Wallis. The two latter differ a good deal 

 from each other with regard to the stature of the Patagonians. 

 Byron mentions a chief 7 it. high, and adds that few of the others 

 were shorter. Wallis, on the other hand, gives an average of from 



