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

142 APPENDIX. ENGLISH. PATAGONIAN. The Arbutus The Cranberry Barberry, drinkmade with the amacoro, pileco. licone. ENGLISH. CHONOS. Good Deity Bad Spirit White Men of the Moon yerrt yiipon. yaccy-ma. cubba. No. 16. Remarks on the Structure of the Fuegians. The general form of the Fuegians is peculiar ; the head and body being particularly large, and the extremities unusually small : but the feet are broad though short. This peculiarity, no doubt, is owing to their mode of life : being a people who take httle exercise, but sit con- stantly huddled together in their canoes or wigwams ; the blood, the source of nourishment, can only circulate freely, and must in greater quantity, in the head and trunk, from the obstruction to its passage into the hmbs, owing to their bent position. From the same cause, the want of exercise, this is the form of the Esquimaux and Laplanders. A man whom I examined was of the middle size, five feet seven inches, and his muscular power about a medium ; the circumference of the— Ft. in. Thorax 3 1 Abdomen ... ... ... 2 7 Pelvis 2 5 Thigh 1 10 Calf of the leg 1 Arm 1 Fore-arm ... ... ... 11 Length of the head from the chin upwards 9 Length of body, from the symphisis pubis to the top of the sternum ... ... 2 Length of thigh 17 Length of leg of arm of fore-arm and hand from spine to ster- num, externally ... same internally Breadtii of thorax of hypochondriac re- gions of pelvis between superior and spinous pro- cesses ... ... ... Ft. 1 In. 17 17 13 10 13 II