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AP Ry PPO GE AN PD ail eee an IN eae 
Copy of a paper tranfmitted from admiral Byrov to mex 
through the hands of the right reverend John Egerton, 
late bifhop of Durham, after he had perufed the manu- 
fcript of the foregoing account. 
«© THE people I‘ faw, upon the coaft of Patagonia, were not 
the fame that was feen the fecond voyage. , One or two of 
the officers that failed with me, and afterwards with captain 
Wallace, declared to me that they had not a fingle thing I 
had diftributed amoneft thofe Ifaw. 1. Bougainville remarks 
that his officers lanced amongft the Ivdians 1 had feen, as 
they had many Engli/b knives amongft them, which were, as 
he pretends, undoubtedly given by me: now it happened 
that I never gave a fingle knife to any of thofe Indians, nor 
did I even carry one afhore with me. 
“ T HAD often heard from the Spaniards, that there were two 
or three different nations of very tall people, the largeft of 
which inhabit thofe immenfe plains at the back of the Andes. 
The others fomewhere near the river Galegos. I take it to 
be the former that I faw, and for this reafon:—returning from 
Port Famine, where I had been to wood and water, I faw 
thofe peoples’ fires a long way to the weftward of where I 
had left them, and a great way inland, fo, as the winter was 
approaching, they were certainly returning to a better cli- 
mate. I remarked that they had not one fingle thing amongft 
them that fhewed they ever had any commerce with Euro- 
peans. They were certainly of a moft amazing fize: fo much 
were their horfes difproportioned, that all the people that 
were with me in the boats, when very near the fhore, fwore 
a “ that 
