Identifier: throughheartofpa00pricrich (find matches)
Title: Through the heart of Patagonia
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Prichard, Hesketh Vernon Hesketh, 1876-1922 Woodward, Arthur Smith, 1864-1944 Thomas, Oldfield, 1858- Millais, John Guille, 1865-1931 Moreno, Francisco Pascasio, 1852-1919 Rendle, A. B. (Alfred Barton), 1865-1938 Britten, James, 1846-1924
Subjects: Natural history -- Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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by a slight difference ofdialect, and who met and intermarried, although they did notobject to espousing opposite sides in a quarrel. Other tribeswhom he mentions did not inhabit the part of the country of whichI am writing. The Tehuelches proper appear to have been fairly prosperousand numerous in his day, but even then he says, speaking of them : Supplies of rum procured in trade at the settlements . . .and disease, small-pox especially, are rapidly diminishing theirnumbers. Things have undoubtedly gone from bad to worse inthis unhappy direction, and I am inclined to think that the numberof Tehuelche Indians surviving at this period can be little over afew hundreds in number. Rum is undoubtedly their chief foe. * There is, however, a great variation in the development of the lower limbs indifferent individnals. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TEHUELCHES 89 Drink to the uncivilised man is a clanger against which he is pro-vided with no defence, either social or moral. Having- once tasted
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AKKOUHKAUS AM; KNIFE, KUU.NU .\1:AR COLOHUAri, CllLliUT. (NuW l.\ CuI.I.KCTION OF MK. E. M. SPKOT) its fatal pleasures, he has no reason for forbidding himself anindulgence his animal nature craves. Since the day on which the Spanish adventurers first sightedthe Patagonian coast, perhaps the one event in the history ofthe Indians may truly be said to be the introduction of horses intotheir land. Otherwise they seem to have altered little in theirway of life. Magellan says they came down to the shp clad andshod in i^uanaco-skins ; thev are clad and shod in cruanaco-skinsto-day. Their tools and knives were sharp-edged flints ; I haveseen the Indians skin their (juarry with precisely the same weapons. Bows and arrows were indeed in use among the tribes whenthe Spaniards visited the coast ; these ha\e now been supersededb\ the do/eadores, an innovation which in its prcstiu tnrm cameinto fashion after the Indians bet-an to know the value of the 90 THROUGH THE HEART OF PATAGONIA horse. The

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