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their bufinefs to proteét the property of their people, and they 
have power of life and death: the office is far from being eli- 
gible; many reject it, becaufe they are obliged to pay all their 
people for ‘their fervices, who may at pleafure change their 
Caziques, fo that feveral refufe to accept new vaffals, who may 
offer themfelves; for it is not allowed any Indian to live out of 
the protection of fome Cazigue: in fuch a cafe he would cer- 
tainly be looked on as an outlaw. 
ExLoqvence is in high efteem with them. If a Cazique wants 
that talent, he keeps an orator; juft as leaders in cppofition 
have been known to do among us. 
Tuis clofes the hiftory Mr. Falkener favored me with; but 
T muft not quit that gentleman without informing yeu, that he 
returned to Europe with a fuit of Patagonian cloth, a cup of 
horn, and a little pot made of Chilian copper; the whole fruits 
the Spaniards left him, after the labors of a thirty-eight years 
miflion. 
From the preceding account it appears, that the country, 
which goes under the name of Patagonia, extending from the 
river /a Plata, lat. 35, to the ftreights of Magellan, lat. 53 *, 
and -weftward*as far as the Andes, is inhabited by men who may 
be divided into three different claffes ; and to them may be added 
a fourth, a combination or mixture of others. 
Tue firft isa race of men of common fize, who have been 
feen by numbers, and whofe exiftence is indifputable. Thefe 
often are feen on the northern fide of the ftreights of Magellan, 
* M. de Premental will compare Patagonia to the fpace between the Riviere 
-4es Sardines and the ftreights of Magellan. 
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