An account of several late voyages and discoveries

io thc Streights o{ Magellan.~ 6 s fiiigcrs: they are allive in ,Body, and oimble irt oing and running ; thc,r Cloathing is pieccs of 'kins of Scals, and Guianacoes, and Ottcrs skin~ e1Ved togedier, nn<l fowed foft ; tlieir Garmcn_t iR form of á. ~arpct, of about fivc fect fquar~, according to the largencfs of the Períon; this ey wrap .about their Bodics, as á Scotrijh Ma~1 ·oth his Pladdint,: they have a Cap ofthe .Skinsof owls, with the Feathcrs on; they have about eir Feet picces of Skins ticd to keep thcir Fcet om the Gi'ound : they are very hardy pcople to dure cold, for they foldorr• wcar this loofc skin ·hen they are ílirring, but are a.U naked of Body mHead to Fect,and do not fürink for the \vea– er; for it was very cold whca I fa\v thcm, a.nd Hills aJI covered with Snow: they have nq airon their .Bodies nor Faces, nor any thing t~ ver their Privy Parts, excepting fome of the ·ornen which had a Skin before thcrri; ~ther– 'fe the Men ahd \Vomen are cloathed ~like; ly die Men have Caps and the \,Yomen none; .e Women wear Bracelets ofShells about their ccks, t!"íe Men none: the Meri are fomewhat rgcr than the Women in ílatui'e, and more f~lt c'd; the Men have a harlh Languélge, and ak r:itling in the Throat, and grofs, tlle \Vo; n ihriJler arid lower : they pronounce th~ word 1 ,fol,, but what it rrteans I could not underfian~• rone word they f pake. Jf t~cy did not ~ike thirig, they wgu)d cry Ur, V'r., ratlir:ig il;t ir Throats: their food is what they can gct; er Fifit or Flcíh ; tbey are under no Goveni– t, but every man dorh as he thioks fit ; for f' i:hey