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ANP | Boies IN WD OT exc Ng 
WueEn they-go to war, they wear a fourfold coat, of the fkin 
of the Zapiir, a cap of bull’s hide doubled, and a broad target 
of the fame. Their offenfive weapons are bows and arrows, the 
laft headed with bone, lances headed with iron, and broad 
fwords, both which they procure from the Spaniards: but their 
native weapons are flings; of thefe they have two kinds; one for 
war, which confifts of a thong, headed with ftone at only one 
end; and during their campaigns they carry numbers of thefe 
wrapped about their bodies. 
Tue flings which they ufe in the chace of horfes, cattle, or 
oftriches, have a ftone fixed to each end; and fometimes another 
thong, with a third ftone, is faftened to the middle of the 
other: thefe, with amazing dexterity, they fling round the ob- 
jects of the chace, be they beafts or oftriches, which entangle 
them fo that they cannot ftir. The Indians leave them, I may 
fay thus tied neck and heels, and go on in purfuit of frefh 
game; and, having finifhed their fport, return to the animals 
they left fecured in the flings. 
Terr wars are chiefly with the other Indians, for, Patagonia 
is inhabited by variety of people, not a fingle nation. They 
have a creat deal of intercourfe with the Spaniards, and often 
come down to Buenos Ayres to trade for iron, bugles, &c. 
Tus commerce with the Europeans has corrupted them 
greatly, taught them the vice of dram-drinking, and been a 
dreadful obftacle to their moral improvement. Mr. Falkener 
informed me, that he once prevaled on about five hundred 
to form a reduétion, but that they grew unruly and ungovern- 
able as foon as the Spani/b traders got among them. 
Tuerr war and their chace are carried on on horfeback, for 
they 
