APPENDIX B.
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Testimony of successive Voyagers to the Stature of the Patagonians.
| A.D. | ||
| 1520. | Pigafetta | The least, taller than the tallest men in Castille. |
| 1578. | Drake | Not taller than some Englishmen. |
| 1591. | Knyvet | Fifteen or sixteen spans high. |
| 1598. | Van Noort | Natives of tall stature. |
| 1615. | Schouten | Human skeletons 10 or 11 feet long. |
| 1669. | Narborough | Mr. Wood was taller than any of them. |
| 1750. | Falkner | A cacique 7 feet and some inches high. |
| 1764. | Byron | A chief about 7 feet high, and few of the others shorter. |
| 1766. | Wallis | Measured some of the tallest: one was 6 feet 7 inches, several 6 feet 5 inches; the average height was between 5 feet 10 inches and 6 feet. |
| 1783. | Viedma | Generally 6 feet high. |
| 1829. | D’Orbigny | Never found any exceeding 5 feet 11 inches; average height 5 feet 4 inches. |
| 1833. | Fitzroy and Darwin | Tallest average of any people; average height 6 feet, some taller and a few shorter. |
| 1867-8. | Cunningham | Rarely less than 5 feet 11 inches in height, and often exceeding 6 feet by a few inches. One measured 6 feet 10 inches. |
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FOOTNOTES
- [1] Cunningham, p. 133.
- [2] A fanega contains 100 lbs.
- [3] Casimiro gave the name as ‘Bourne.’
- [4] [Frontispiece].
- [5] Fte. S. Espiritu.
- [6] The skull of a guanaco is well figured in Mr. Cunningham’s work.
- [7] Vide [Appendix B].
- [8] Three Years’ Slavery, p. 233.
- [9] Also called Poyel.
- [10] Cf. Guinnard, ‘Three Years’ Slavery,’ p. 73.
- [11] Quirquincho.
- [12] Natural History of the Straits of Magellan, p. 134.
- [13] Atherinichthys Argentinensis. Cunningham, p. 54.