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Title: History of the viceroyalty of Buenos Ayres; containing the most accurate details relative to the topography, history, commerce, population, government, &c. &c. of that valuable colony
Year: 1807 (1800s)
Authors: Wilcocke, Samuel Hull, 1766?-1833
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Publisher: London, Printed for H.D. Symonds (etc.) by C. Squire
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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border, to the north, on the Spanish pro-?vinces of Cuyo, Tucuman, and Buenos Ayrestand reach from the territories of the Moluches onone side, to the Atlantic on the other. Theybear different denominations amongst themselves.Those to the north are called Taluhets; to thewest and south of these are the Diuihets; to thesouth-east the Chechehets; and to the south ofthese last are the Tehuelhets. The two first-men-tioned tribes are known to the Spaniards by thename of Pampas. They are of a roving disposetion, and repeatedly attack and hamss the Span-ish settlements, as well as the travellers who passfrom Chili to Buenos Ayres, over the plains theyinhabit. They hunt both the wild horses and thehorned cattle for food; ana1 are in general a taljand stout race of men. The Tehuelhets are the nation that is known inEurope by the appellation of Patagons; and aresplit into many subdivisions. A principal tribehave a town called Huechin, on the banks ofthe Cusu Leuevu, or Rio Negio, the caciques of
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TublLsheA IpS. D. SymentLsJaternvsterBow. OctaSaSoff. Patagonians. 439 which have great influence, if not commensurateauthority, over almost all the Chechehets and Te-huelhets, and who, when they declare war, arealso joined by the Huilliches, and by those Pehu-enches who live most to the south. The Tehu-elhets are a restless and roving people, whomneither extreme old age, nor blindness or disease,prevent from indulging in their wandering incli-nations. They are very strong, well made, andnot so tawny as the other Indians. They arecourteous, obliging, and good-natured, but veryinconstant. They are warlike and intrepid, andthe most numerous of all the Indian nations inthese parts. They are the enemies of the Mo-luches, and very much feared by them. Theyspeak a different language from the other Puelchesand the Moluches. As to their stature, they area large race, and several of them are seven feetand a half in height, but these, it is asserted,are not a distinct race, but only individuals

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