They also call them gli/ce, primitive men, or men 

 from the beginning, and in their assemblies invoke 

 them, together with their deities, crying out with a 

 loud voice, Po?n, pum, pum, mari^ mari^ Epunamun^ 

 Amimalguen, Peni Epatum, The signification of 

 the three first words is uncertain, and they might he 

 considered as interjections, did not the word pum, 

 by which the Chinese call the first created man, or 

 the one saved from the waters, induce a suspicion, 

 from its similarity, that these have a similar signifi- 

 cation. The lamas, or priests of Thibet, from tlie 

 accounts of the natives of Indostan, are accustomed 

 to repeat on their rosaries the syllables horn, ha^ Jiiim^ 

 or em^ am, um, which in some measure corresponds 

 with what we have mentioned of the Chilians. 



That Chili was originally peopled by one nation 

 appears probable, as all the aborigines inhabiting it, 

 however independent of each other, speak the same 

 language, and have a similar appearance. Those 

 that dwell in the plains are of good stature, but those 

 that live in the vailles of the Andes, generally sur- 

 pass the usual height of man. The purer air which 

 they respire, and the continual exercise to which they 

 are accustomed among their mountains, may per- 

 haps be the cause of this différence, by imparting 

 greater vigour to their frames. The features of both 

 are regular, and neither of them have ever discover- 

 ed that capricious whim, so common to savages of 

 both the old and new world, of attempting to im- 

 prove nature by disfiguring their faces, with a view 

 of rendering themselves more beautiful or more fur- 



