Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1883 — Explorations in Patagonia. [ARTICLE]

Explorations in Patagonia.

As is well known, there has been much discussion about the existence of a gigantic race of Patagonians, as to whose stature many were disposed to doubt tjie report of Magellan. But, in wandering over Terra del Fuego our travelers found human craniums and

bones of - such an enormous size as to prove the existence of a race which has now disappeared, and thus attest the veracity of Magellan. In those regions there is a river, the Santa Cruz, *lwnst unknown. Fitz Hoy and Darwin alone within a few years have navigated it in part. A painful spectacle was presented to them on arriving at Cape Horn. There is not a ridge on the ooast that does not record a shipwreck. Every part was oovered with broken planks, masts snapped in pieoes, ironwork twisted by the violence of the waves.— Naples letter to the London Times.