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breed, and feem to be of a good kind, about 14 to 
15 hands high, of different and mixed colours ; and 
from what I faw, I believe they ride them very hard, 
and do not ufe them very well. Thefe people have 
certainly trade and communication with the Spa- 
niards, for one of them had a Spanifh broad fword, 
and he was the only perfon who was armed amongft 
them ; they had bridles, faddles, flirrups, and whips 
of fkins, all of their own making; fome had iron, 
and other metal bits to their bridles, and we faw fome 
metal fpurs. They had a dead oflrich, the flefh of 
which I faw fome eat raw, but whether that be 
their common method of eating flefh, I know not. 
I did not fee any more of thefe fine people, although 
the flow progrefs we made by the contrary winds, 
for feveral days here about, gave us a fine oppor- 
tunity of being better acquainted with them, and 
particularly as they kept on the fea fhore all the time 
to the number of three or four hundred. I was not 
a little chagrined, to find captain Wallis was averfe 
to it, and gave orders nobody fhould go on fhore to 
them; by this we loft a very fine and favourable 
opportunity of knowing more of them, and of their 
country ; the knowledge of which in all probability 
might be of fervice to Great Britain. It was 
thought fo formerly, when fir John Narborough was 
fent out by king Charles the fecond, to endeavour 
to open a communication with thefe Indians, for I 
take them to be the very fame nation, called by the 
Spaniards the Bravoes, who have often made them 
feel their courage and refolution in the kingdom cf 
Chili. They were the people, who defeated the great 
general Baldivia, and afterwards deflroyed him by 
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