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and to equip themfelves for Cavaliers. In other refpééts they 
would be in the fame ftate as our firft parents juft turned cut of 
paradife, cloathed in coats of fkins; or at beft in the fame con- 
dition in which Cz/ar found-the ancient Britons; for their drefs 
was fimilar, their hair long, and their bodies, like thofe of our 
anceftors, made terrific by wild painting. Thefe people, by 
fome means or other, had acquired a few beads and bracelets; 
otherwife not a fingle article of European fabric appeared among 
them!’ Thefe they muft have gotten by the intercourfe with 
the other Jdian tribes: for had they had any intercourfe with 
the Spaniards, they never would have negiected procuring knives, 
the ftirrups, and other conveniences which the people feen by 
Mr. Wallis had. 
I sHoutp have been glad to have clofed, in this place, the 
relations of this ftupendous race of mankind; becaufe the two 
following accounts given by gentlemen of character and abilities 
feem to contradiét great part of what had been before advanced, 
or at lefl ferve to give {coffers room to fay, that the preceding 
navigators had feen thefe people through the medium of mag- 
nifying glaffes, inftead of the fober eye of obfervation: but be- 
fore I make my remarks on what has been before related, I 
fhall proceed with the other navigators, and then attempt to re- 
concile the different accounts. In 1767, captain Wallis of the 
Dolphin, and captain Philip Carteret of the Swallow floop, faw 
and meafured with a pole feveral of the Patagonians, who hap- 
pened to bein the ftreights of Magellan during his paflage *, he 
reprefents them as a fine and friendly people, cloathed in fkins, 
* Phil. Tranf. 1770; ps 21. Hawkefworth’s Voy.i. 374. 
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