There were giants...
I found an interesting article in the Black Sheep, a free Puerto Natales Newspaper and quote a few of the paragraphs:
"Why the name Patagonia? In the 16th century, when the Europeans started to explore the distant places in South America, they met with a race of giant men. Hernando de Magallanes named the south of Chile and Argentina Patagonia in reference to the feet shod with leather moccasins of those giants.
"Why the name Patagonia? In the 16th century, when the Europeans started to explore the distant places in South America, they met with a race of giant men. Hernando de Magallanes named the south of Chile and Argentina Patagonia in reference to the feet shod with leather moccasins of those giants.
In June of 1520, when the fleet commanded by Magallanes anchor in the port of San Julian, Argentina, a giant appears on the beach. Christian Pigafetta, a member of the crew, writes later: "This man was so tall that our head reached hardly to his waist". The crew achieves to captured 2 of these giants to take them to Europe, but they died during the trip.
In 1578, Francis Drake docked again in San Julian, starting a fight with a "man really high", 2.28 meters. During the skirmish he lost one of his men. Anthony Knyvet passed by the strait of Magellan in 1592, and recorded that he not only saw the giants, but also found and measured a group of dead bodies in Puerto Deseado, all of them between 3.10 and 3.60 meters. In 1568, Sebald de Weert saw natives of more than 3 meters in the same region. Later the giants started to disappear."
The article goes on to state numerous other explorers and former skeptics who had contact with them on many occasions. It seems from the article as if the giants mingled with normal people and that the true giants started to disappear in the 19th century...
In 1578, Francis Drake docked again in San Julian, starting a fight with a "man really high", 2.28 meters. During the skirmish he lost one of his men. Anthony Knyvet passed by the strait of Magellan in 1592, and recorded that he not only saw the giants, but also found and measured a group of dead bodies in Puerto Deseado, all of them between 3.10 and 3.60 meters. In 1568, Sebald de Weert saw natives of more than 3 meters in the same region. Later the giants started to disappear."
The article goes on to state numerous other explorers and former skeptics who had contact with them on many occasions. It seems from the article as if the giants mingled with normal people and that the true giants started to disappear in the 19th century...
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