of surprise wati, wati, wati of anger worrioo-wálloo curse it nourenk y sé on erring with the bolas wow on catching an animal or in fighting kow
black chorlo white golwin yellow waieken green arkum red k[=a][=o]pen blue kaliken brown _or_ bay soorsh piebald hogel
one chuche two houke three aäs four carge five ktsin six winikush seven ouk eight winicarge nine humanakoutsen ten kake eleven chuche kor twelve houke kor thirteen aas kor kor added up to twenty twenty wommenikukikor thirty aasenikaki forty cargekaki fifty ktsinkaki a hundred patack a thousand huaranca
Thank you Nouremi naki Lend me the pipe Mon aniwee--aniwee moyout Catch my horse Korigi ya Come along, friend Heroschengs gennow Will you come out hunting? (_Lit._ Heros aoukemshaw kinscott ya Come out hunting, tell me.) The people are fighting Ywowishk chonik How many are killed? Kinkeinkerum ymuck Where are you going? Kinek nis chengs Cook some meat; I am hungry Herósh yipper wummi pashlik ya I understand Indian Omkes Ahonicanka I like your wife Ma yshorsks ysher What do you want? Keterum karn? It rains much to-day Chaiske nush que tewa We are going to see many people Wushkaeye seonk chonik We are going to see another country Wushkaeye kaiok yerroen Come here quickly Gommo heout witka What do you buy? Ket, m amli.
_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.
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.