Note 132 — Chapter XIX · BAHIA BLANCA AND PATAGONIA
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The following is the testimony of travellers:— 1520.Pigafetta. The least, taller than the tallest man in Castile. 1578.Drake. Not taller than some Englishmen. 1591.Knyvet. Fifteen or sixteen spans high. 1598.Van Noort. Natives of tall stature. 1615.Schouten. Human skeletons ten or eleven feet long. 1669.Narborough. Mr. Wood was taller than any of them. 1750.Falkner. A cacique seven feet and some inches high. 1765.Byron. A chief about seven feet high, and few of the others shorter. 1766.Wallis. Measured some of the tallest: one was six feet seven inches, several six feet five inches; the average height was between five feet ten inches and six feet. 1783.Viedma. Generally six feet high. 1829.D'Orbigny. Never found any exceeding five feet eleven inches; average height, five feet four inches. 1833.Fitzroy and Darwin. Tallest of any people: average height, six feet, some taller and a few shorter. 1867-8.Cunningham. Rarely less than five feet eleven inches in height, and often exceeding six feet by a few inches. One measured six feet ten inches. [132]