Nebraska advertiser., 1863-01-10

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great inclination to oblige and to assist,
a soul peaceable and without ambition,
an extreme love for their country, from
which we cannot take them without tax
ing their life away such is the essence
Of their national character.
The Esquimaux inhabit the eastern
coast Of America, from the land Of Lab
rador, between Hudson's Bay and the
island called Newfoundland, towards the
SD degree of the boreal latitude to the
extremity of Greenland, towards the 18th
degree of the same latitude. All the
inhabitants you find living on the IN
mense extent of the country under the
name of Esquimaux and G~reenlanders,
are beardless dwarfs, lead a savage life,
live by hunting and fishing, are of about
the same size, have the sams features,
the same manner and speak the same
language. In 1854, a Dane, who was
well acquainted with the language Of the
| G~reenlanders, met with a horde of 200
Esquimaux, spoke to them in the Ian
Fguage of the Greenlanders, and they an
swered him in the same language, which
is the national idiom of their country. but
which has no affinity, no similarity, no
analogy with that of the Firms and the
Japanese, with the jargon of Iceland, Of
Norway, of Samoydes. A4 these pig
mics of North America have very small
feet, an enormously big head, a fiat face,
a rounded mouth, a nose small but not
depressed, projecting cheek-bones, the
lower jaw projecting farther out than the
upper one, eyes often Oblique and yellow,
the complexion xanthous, or olive, or
bronzed.
z. The P~atagonians live in the ex-
IRENE south portion of the continent Of
south America, extending from about the
37lh degree of latitude to the Strait OF
Magellan and to Terra del Fuego.-
Those savages are without hair or beard
their stature Is about the same as that Of
the Europeans, but among them are
found some hordes or families of u gil
gantic stature, to which travellers who
almost always exaggerate, give from
eight to twelve or thirteen feet in hight,
1t is surprising to hear talk of gigan-
tic Patagonians for over 800 years and
that their existence seems as yet doubt
full. The bordes or families which we
have Just named were seen in the coun-
try of Patagonians, by the Italian Piga-
fetla in 1892, by the English Richard
Hawkins in 1893, by Commodore BirOn
in 1864, etc A much greater number
of travellers have visited the land Of the
P~atagonians and have never seen any
giants. Whence seem to result two
things, namely l. That the country of
the ~Patagonians is not generally peopled
by giants, as it often has been stated and
published 2. That really there are some
families of gigantic stature in the cOun-
try Inhabited by the PatagOnians, but are
very rare, for, if some travellers have
seen giants there, others, after seeking
for the like, have not found any. The
ordinary stature of those Patagonian
giants, Judging Of 1t after the best rela-
lions, or by taking a medium between
the extremes of the different relations,
seems to be about eight or nine feet.
Thus speaks on the subject, Lippincott's
P~rOnouncing Gazetteer or Geographical
Dictionary of the World at the article
Patagonia: 1.-THE aboriginal natives of
East Patagonia, though by no means so
large as they have been described, few
of them exceeding six feet and some
inches, are a tall and extremely stout
race. Their bodies are bulky, their
head and features large, but the hands
and feet comparatively small. Their
limbs arg neither so muscular, nor so
largGbobed as their height and apparent
bulk would lead n to suppose. Their
color is a rich reddish brown. The
mouth is large and c~oarsely formed, with
thick lips; but the teeth are often ex-
c~ellent." A. G.
(To BIZ CoNTINUED.)