. Pacific line guide to South America; containing information to travellers & shippers to ports on the east & west coasts of South America . pata,a paw, and therefore signifies large-pawed, a term appliedby the early Spaniards to the Indians of that region whenthey first beheld them with feet swathed in then is the land of the large-pawed Startingfrom the Rio Negro, its northern limit, to the Straits ofMagellan, from the Andes to the Atlantic this triangle hasan area of 372,815 square miles, into which Great Britainand Ireland, France, Denmark, Holland and Belgium could
. Pacific line guide to South America; containing information to travellers & shippers to ports on the east & west coasts of South America . pata,a paw, and therefore signifies large-pawed, a term appliedby the early Spaniards to the Indians of that region whenthey first beheld them with feet swathed in then is the land of the large-pawed Startingfrom the Rio Negro, its northern limit, to the Straits ofMagellan, from the Andes to the Atlantic this triangle hasan area of 372,815 square miles, into which Great Britainand Ireland, France, Denmark, Holland and Belgium couldbe packed ; inhabited by numerous tribes 01 Indiansnumbering perhaps 25,000, of which the chief is that of theTehuelches, but it is very probable that all these variousfamilies have a common descent from the Araucanians ofSouthern Chili, whom the Spaniards were never able to 73 subdue. and whose language bears the relation of mother-tongue to all their manifold dialects. The story books relate that the Patagonians are ofextraordinary stature, and some of the tribes are so, butthey are chiefly remarkable for enormous busts, and fleshy.
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