"No," replied McNabbs, "and wouldn't give a Scotch pound-note
for the information."

"You shall hear it, however, Major Indifferent. Though Magellan
called the natives Patagonians, the Fuegians called them Tiremenen,
the Chilians Caucalhues, the colonists of Carmen Tehuelches,
the Araucans Huiliches; Bougainville gives them the name of Chauha,
and Falkner that of Tehuelhets. The name they give themselves
is Inaken. Now, tell me then, how would you recognize them?
Indeed, is it likely that a people with so many names has
any actual existence?"

"That's a queer argument, certainly," said Lady Helena.

"Well, let us admit it," said her husband, "but our friend Paganel
must own that even if there are doubts about the name of the race
there is none about their size."

"Indeed, I will never own anything so outrageous as that,"
replied Paganel.

"They are tall," said Glenarvan.

"I don't know that."

"Are they little, then?" asked Lady Helena.

"No one can affirm that they are."