OR DAE PPATAGO NT 4.N5. 
1614.—George Spilbergen, another Dutchman, in his paflage 
through the fame itreight, faw a man, of a gigantic ftature, 
climbing a hill as if to take a view of the fhip *. 
1615.—Le Maire and Schguten difcovered fome of the bury- 
ing places of the Patagonians beneath heaps of great ftones, and 
found in them fkeletons ten or eleven feet Jong +. 
Mr. Falkener fuppofes, that formerly there exifted a race of 
Patagonians fapericr to thefe in fize; for fkeletons are often 
found of far greater dimenfions, particularly about the river 
Zexeira. Perhaps he may have heard of the old tradition of 
the natives mentioned by Cieza, and repeated from him by 
Garcilaffo de la Vega §, of certain giants having come by fea, and 
landed near the Cape of St. Helena, many ages before the arrival 
of the Europeans. 
1618.—Gracias de Nodal, a Spanifh commander, in the courfe 
of his voyage, was informed by John Moore, one of his crew, 
who landed between Cape St. E/prit, and Cape St. Arenas, on the 
fouth fide of the ftreights, that he trafficked with a race of men 
taller, by the head, than the Europeans. This, and the next, are 
the only inftances | ever met with of the tall race being found 
on that fide of the ftreights. 
1642.—Henry Brewer, a Dutch admiral, obferved in the 
ftreights /e Maire, the footfteps of men which meafured eighteen 
inches, this is the laft evidence in the 17th century of the ex- 
® Purchas, i. 80. 
+ Ibid. i. g1. 
t Seventeen years travels of Peter de Cieza, 138. 
§ Tranflated by Ricaut, p. 263. 
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