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people, and often fhift their quarters; when the women ftrike- 
the tents, affift in putting them on their horfes, and, like the fe- 
males of all favage countries, undergo all. the laborious work. 
Tuey have two motives for fhitting their quarters; one, for 
the fake of getting falt, which they find incrufted in the thallow 
pools near the fea fide. 
Tue other inducement is the fuperftition they have of bury-- 
ing their dead within a certain diftance of the ocean. And I may 
certainly add a third, that of the neceffity they muft lie under of 
feeking frefh quarters on account of the chace, which is their- 
principal fubfiftence. 
Tose who deny the exiftence of thefe great people, never- 
confider the migratory nature of the inhabitants of this prodi- 
gious tract, and never refleét that the tribes who may have 
been feen this month on the coaft, may the next be fome hun- 
dreds of miles inland, and their place occupied by a tribe or- 
nation totally different. Thefe gentlemen feem to lay down as. 
a certain pofition, that Patagonia is peopled by only a fingle na- 
tion; and from that falfe principle they draw their arguments,. 
fneer, infult, and even grofsly abufe all that differ in opinion.. 
Among the moft illiberal of thefe writers 1s AZ. de. Premontal,. 
who, with the rapid ingenuity of his country, mounts on his. 
headftrong courfer Preyupice, fets off full fpeed, rides over all 
the honeft fellows that would inform him of his road, and fpurns 
even Truth herfelf, though fhe offers to be his guide: but truth is 
unadorned, and hated by this fantaftic writer ; it would fpoil him 
of all the flowers of fiction, and tropes of abufe, againft a rival 
country ; and would teach him faéts that would ruin his argument, 
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