884 HUILLI-CHE — CHILOUE PIRATES. Feb. 



Chiloe, in addition to those who had accompanied the fugitives 

 from Osorno (in 1599 — 1604) to Calbuco, Carel-mapu, and 

 thence to Chiloe ; who being a docile patient race, accustomed 

 to agriculture, increased rapidly and supplanted the Chonos 

 emigrants. 



We read in the narrative of Brouwer's voyage (1643) that 

 the port which the Dutch called Brouwer's Haven, was by 

 some called Chilova, and by others English Haven : and in 

 1624, according to Agiieros (quoting D. Cosme Bueno), 

 Englishmen were on this coast : but I think it more probable 

 that the Bank Ingles and Port Ingles, near San Carlos, ob- 

 tained those names from William Adams, in 1599,* rather 

 than from them. In the Dutch chart published with the 

 journal, this island is called Chiloue, and the adjacent gulf, 

 Ankaos, or Ancoed.-[- Brouwer alarmed the inhabitants of 

 Chiloe not a little, but they were even more frightened and 

 harassed before that time by Cordes, in 1600 ; Spilbergen, in 

 1615 ; and afterwards by Shelvocke, in 1719 ; besides others. 



To guard against, or rather watch for such visitors, as 

 well as to obtain the earliest intelligence of an enemy being on 

 the coast, the Spaniards established look-out stations in com- 



* Voyage of Five Ships of Rotterdam, Burney, vol. ii. p. 193. (sup- 

 posing 46° should be 42° S.) 



t I mention this to show that the accent, or stress, was then upon the 

 second syllable of that name, not upon the third. The name Chiloe is 

 derived from Chilue, or, more strictly speaking", from Chili-hue (see 

 Agiieros and Molina^, which means 'farther,' or ' new,' or 'the end of 

 Chili, and ought, by derivation, to have the accent, as Agiieros placed it, 

 on the o. No reason can be given by a Spaniard for placing an accent 

 on the final e of that word, yet it is almost generally placed there. My 

 own idea is that the French traders to Chile in I7OO — 1780, first placed an 

 accent on the e in writing, and that Feuillee, Frezier, and others have 

 been followed without inquiry. Had not the stress been laid on the o, 

 surely the natives of Chiloe would have been called Chiloetes, or Chiloe- 

 nos, instead of Chilotes. As to the name Chile, every one knows it is 

 derived from the Indian word Chili, (Herrera, Ovalle, Agiieros, Mo- 

 lina, &c.) but why it was altered by the Spaniards to Chile, I have never 

 been able to discover. 



