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bit of fome bead's fldn about their waifts^ 

 and fomething woven from feathers over 

 the flioulders ; and as they uttered no 

 word of any language we had ever heard, 

 nor had any method of making thera- 

 felves underftood, we prefumed they 

 could have had no intercourfe with Eu- 

 ropeans. Thefe favages, who upon their 

 departure left us a few mufcles, returned 

 in two days, and furprifed us by bring- 

 ing three flieep. From whence they 

 could procure thefe animals in a part of 

 the world fo diftant from any Spanifli 

 fettlement, cut off from all communica- 

 tion with the Spaniards by an inacceffible 

 coaft and unprofitable country, is diffi- 

 cult to conceive. Certain it is, that we 

 faw no fuch creatures, nor ever heard 

 of any fuch, from the Streights of Ma- 

 gellan, till we got into the neighbour- 

 hood of Chiloe : it muft be by fome 

 ftrange accident that thefe creatures came 

 into their poffeffion ; but what that was, 



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