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gines on the globe, I will enter into rather more detail, even at 

 the risk of being prolix. As there is much similarity in the 

 habits of all the tribes above-mentioned who use canoes, and we 

 know little of the Yacana, I shall speak of the Horse Indians, 

 generally, in the first place ; and of the Canoe Indians, as 

 one body, in the second. 



Note 1. — There is so much difficulty in deciding^ upon the orthogra- 

 phy of words whose sounds are variously given by individuals even of the 

 same tribe, and which, caught by ears of varying acuteness, are written 

 down according to the pronunciation of different languages, that one may 

 trace some connexion between the names Key-es, Key-yus; Keyuhues^ 

 or Keyuhue ; Kekenica, or Tekeenica, and Kenneka. This last term 

 is taken from Van Noort. (Burney, vol. ii. p. 215.) Perhaps the country 

 there called ' Coin' may be that inhabited by Jemmy Button's Oens-men. 



2. Molina's description of the Huemul is said by naturalists to be un- 

 satisfactory and inconclusive ; therefore, whether it is an animal hitherto 

 unnoticed (except by him), or the ' kind of roebuck,' mentioned in page 

 132, remains to be decided. See Molina, vol. i. p. 364. 



3. Pennant, in his ' Literary Life,' quotes Cavendish's as well as Brou- 

 wer's measurement of footsteps eighteen inches long ! As Pennant was 

 personally acquainted with Falkner, and collected much information 

 respecting the Patagonians from other sources likewise, I have inserted 

 a short extract from his work in the Appendix to this volume. The 

 original book is now becoming scarce, and some of the notices contained 

 in it are very interesting in connexion with this subject. 



While I was revising my manuscript journal. Sir Woodbine Parish 

 had the kindness to lend me ' Viedma's Diary,' with permission to make 

 use of it : and, finding some interesting notices of the Patagonians which 

 were quite new to me, T have added to the appendix of this volume a 

 verbatim extract from Viedma, which I think will repay the curious 

 reader, especially where their ideas of the transmigration of souls are 

 mentioned. 



