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Chiloe, that he once was visited by some of these people, who were 

 four varas, or about nine or ten feet high ; they came in company 

 with some Chiloe Indians,* with whom they were friends, and who 

 probably found them in some of their excursions." 



** Those whose height is so extraordinary as to occasion a great 

 disbelief of the accounts of voyagers, are indisputably an existent 

 people ; they have been seen by Magellan, and six others, in the 

 sixteenth century, and by two, if not three, in the present." 



Thomas Pennant. 



Copy of a Paper transmitted from Admiral Byron to Mr. Pennant, 

 through the hands of the Right Reverend John Egerton, late 

 Bishop of Durham, after he had perused the manuscript of the 

 foregoing account. 



*' The people I saw upon the coast of Patagonia were not the 

 same that were seen the second voyage. One or two of the officers 

 that sailed with me, and afterwards with Captain WalHs, declared to 

 me that they had not a single thing I had distributed amongst 

 those I saw. 



M. Bougainville remarks, that his officers landed amongst the 

 Indians I had seen, as they had many English knives among them, 

 which were, as he pretends., undoubtedly given by me. Now it 

 happened that I never gave a single knife to any of those Indians, 

 nor did I even carry one ashore with me, 



" I had often heard from the Spaniards that there were two or 

 three different nations of very tall people, the largest of which in- 

 habit those immense plains at the back of the Andes : the others, 

 somewhere near the river Gallegos. I take it to be the former that 

 I saw, and for this reason : — returning from Port Famine, where I 

 had been to wood and water, I saw those people's fires a long way to 

 the westward of where I had left them, and a great way inland, so, 

 as the winter was approaching, they were certainly returning to a 

 better climate. I remarked that they had not one single thing 

 amongst them that shewed they ever had any commerce with Euro- 

 peans. They were certainly of a most amazing size ; so much were 

 * Frezier's Voyage, p. 86. 



