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Patagonia

Posted by Fred on October 08, 2004

According to Antonio Pigafetta's journal, The Voyage of Magellan , Magellan gave the Patagonians their name because they had big feet, since they stuffed straw in their shoes made of guanaco hides. (SS -- Where did you read that the natives did not know how to protect themselves from the cold?)

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