The Dutch Got Immediately
Into Their Boats, And Stood On Their Defence; But When The Savages Saw
Four Or Five Of Their Companions Fall Down Dead, Slain By Dutch Thunder,
They Fled To The Land; And Plucking Up Large Trees, Barricaded
Themselves Against The Hollanders, Who Left Them.
After this, three of
the Dutchmen, in seeking food to preserve their life, found death at the
hands of naked savages, who were armed with barbed darts, which, if they
entered the flesh, had to be cut out.
[Footnote 47: This is the first notice we have yet met with of the
long-famed Patagonians; but their enormous stature in the text is very
diffidently asserted. We shall have future opportunities of becoming
better acquainted with these South American giants. Perhaps the original
may only have said they seemed ten or eleven spans high, and some
careless editor chose to substitute feet. - E.]
This Green bay, in which they staid so long, was named Cordes bay after
the commander. In another, called Horse bay, they erected a new guild or
fraternity, binding themselves with much solemnity and many oaths to
certain articles, and calling it the Fraternity of the Freed Lion. The
general added six chosen men to himself in this society, and caused
their names to be engraven on a board, which was hung up on high
pillars, to be seen by all passing that way; but it was defaced by the
savages, who likewise disinterred the dead bodies from their graves and
dismembered them, carrying one away.
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