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EPÍLOGO 
Entregado el presente trabajo a la imprenta, nos llegan dos estudios 1 
del reverendo John M. Cooper sobre los indígenas fueguinos que re- 
presentan un complemento valioso del nuestro, ante todo bajo el punto 
de vista ergológico, y que coinciden en un todo con nuestros resulta- 
tados lingüísticos; be ahí lo que en la página 448 de su primer estudio 
dice sobre el tópico el reverendo John M. Cooper : « A comparison of 
tlie foregoing lexical material shows with reasonable clearness that the 
same Alacalufan tongue is spokcn by all the non-Yaligan canoeusing 
indians of the channels and inlets nortli and soutli of the Strait of Ma- 
gellan and up the west Patagonian eoast as far at least as Port Grap- 
pler... ». Respecto de los Chonos, escribe en la página 451 : « Taking all 
things into consideraron, tliere seems to be a slight preponderance of 
evidence in favor of the existence of a linguistic dividing-line at the 
Taitao Peninsula or the Gulf of Penas, but the evidence pro and con 
is too near evenly balanced and to slender to justify a reliable conclu- 
sión. » 
' Cooper, Fucgians and Chonoan tribal relations. Proceedings of tlic ninctccnth inter- 
national Congrcss of Amcricanists, lield at Washington, Dccember 27-31, 1916, páginas 
445-453, Washington, 1917. 
Cooper, Analytical and critica! bibliography of the tribes of Tierra del Fuego and 
adjaccnt ierritory. Smithsonian Institution, Burean of American Ethnology, Bullelin 
LXIII, 233 páginas, Washington, 1917. 
