. Through the heart of Patagonia. Natural history. LAKES AND THE DISTANT CORDILLERA : five vessels, and, curiously enough, had to cope with a plot against his life when in the same harbour of Port San Julian. The story is well known. Mr. Thomas Doughty, the chief mutineer, was given his choice of death, or of marooning, or to be taken home for trial. He chose death, and was accordingly executed. Drake speaks of the natives as being no taller than some Englishmen. During the next hundred years various expeditions touched upon the coasts, some captained by Englishmen, such as Nar- borough, Byron


. Through the heart of Patagonia. Natural history. LAKES AND THE DISTANT CORDILLERA : five vessels, and, curiously enough, had to cope with a plot against his life when in the same harbour of Port San Julian. The story is well known. Mr. Thomas Doughty, the chief mutineer, was given his choice of death, or of marooning, or to be taken home for trial. He chose death, and was accordingly executed. Drake speaks of the natives as being no taller than some Englishmen. During the next hundred years various expeditions touched upon the coasts, some captained by Englishmen, such as Nar- borough, Byron, and Wallis. The two latter differ a good deal from each other with regard to the stature of the Patagonians. Byron mentions a chief 7 it. high, and adds that few of the others were shorter. Wallis, on the other hand, gives an average of from. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Prichard, Hesketh Vernon Hesketh, 1876-1922; Moreno, Francisco Pascasio, 1852-1919; Woodward, Arthur Smith, 1864-1944; Thomas, Oldfield, 1858-1929; Britten, James, 1846-1924; Rendle, A. B. (Alfred Barton), 1865-1938; Millais, John Guille, 1865-1931, illus; Saville, Marshall H. (Marshall Howard), 1867-1935. fmo sgn; Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. fmo; Huntington Free Library. fmo. New York, D. Appleton and Company


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