Chapter XXIII: Appendix: B

_Testimony of successive Voyagers to the Stature of the Patagonians._

A.D.
1520. _Pigafetta_ The least, taller than the tallest men in
Castille.

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 10 or 11 feet long.

1669. _Narborough_ Mr. Wood was taller than any of them.

1750. _Falkner_ A cacique 7 feet and some inches high.

1764. _Byron_ A chief about 7 feet high, and few of the
others shorter.

1766. _Wallis_ Measured some of the tallest: one was
6 feet 7 inches, several 6 feet 5 inches;
the average height was between 5 feet
10 inches and 6 feet.

1783. _Viedma_ Generally 6 feet high.

1829. _D'Orbigny_ Never found any exceeding 5 feet 11 inches;
average height 5 feet 4 inches.

1833. _Fitzroy and Darwin_ Tallest average of any people; average
height 6 feet, some taller and a few
shorter.

1867-8. _Cunningham_ Rarely less than 5 feet 11 inches in
height, and often exceeding 6 feet by
a few inches. One measured 6 feet
10 inches.

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