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PATAGONIANS. 



served with the simplicity of their customs, and 

 the coarseness of their food, a height and bulk 

 beyond that of the generality of mankind.* 



* Captain Fitzroy, R.N., who has lately made a most 

 interesting survey of the whole coast of Patagonia, says, 



a The aboriginal natives of Patagonia are a tall and 

 extremely stout race of men." * * * " Among two or 

 three hundred natives of Patagonia, scarcely half a dozen 

 men are seen whose height is under five feet nine inches 

 or ten inches. The women are proportionably tall." 

 * * * "I have nowhere seen an assemblage of men 

 and women whose average height and apparent bulk 

 equalled that of the Patagonians." — See Journal of the 

 R. G. £.,vol. vi.,p. 315. 



