Narrative of the surveying voyages of his majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle (vol.2): between the years 1826 and 1836 : describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagles's circumnavigation of the globe

SOUTHERN ABORIGINES. 143 gines on the globe, I will enter into rather more detail, even at the risk of being prolix. As there is much similarity in the habits of all the tribes above-mentioned who use canoes, and we know little of the Yacana, I shall speak of the Horse Indians, generally, in the first place ; and of the Canoe Indians, as one body, in the second. Note 1. — There is so much difficulty in deciding upon the orthogra- phy of words whose sounds are variously given by individuals even of the same tribe, and which, caught by ears of varying acuteness, are written down according to the pronunciation of different languages, that one may trace some connexion between the names Key-es, Key-yus; Keyuhues or Keyuhue ; Kekenica, or Tekeenica, and Kenneka. This last term is taken from Van Noort. (Burney, vol ii. p. 215.) Perhaps the country there called ' Coin' may be that inhabited by Jemmy Button's Oens-men. 2. Molina's description of the Huemul is said by naturalists to be un- satisfactory and inconclusive ; therefore, whether it is an animal hitherto unnoticed (except by him), or the ' kind of roebuck,' mentioned in page 132, remains to be decided. See Molina, vol. i. p. 364. 3. Pennant, in his ' Literary Life,' quotes Cavendish's as well as Brou- wer's measurement of footsteps eighteen inches long ! As Pennant was personally acquainted with Falkuer, and collected much information respecting the Patagonians from other sources likewise, I have inserted a short extract from his work in the Appendix to this volume. The original book is now becoming scarce, and some of the notices contained in it are very interesting in connexion with this subject. While I Wiis revising my manuscript journal. Sir Woodbine Parish had the kindness to lend me ' Viedma's Diary,' with permission to make use of it : and, finding some interesting notices of the Patagonians which were quite new to me, 1 have added to the appendix of this volume a verbatim extract from Viedma, which I think will repay the curious reader, especially where their ideas of the transmigration of souls are mentioned.