It was an amusing scene, and it was impossible not to like the so-called giants, they were so thoroughly good-humoured and unsuspecting: they asked us to come again.

They seem to like to have Europeans to live with them; and old Maria, an important woman in the tribe, once begged Mr.Low to leave any one of his sailors with them.

They spend the greater part of the year here; but in summer they hunt along the foot of the Cordillera: sometimes they travel as far as the Rio Negro, 750 miles to the north.

They are well stocked with horses, each man having, according to Mr.Low, six or seven, and all the women, and even children, their one own horse.

In the time of Sarmiento (1580) these Indians had bows and arrows, now long since disused; they then also possessed some horses.