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HAVESTAD, Bernhard, German missionary, born in Cologne in 1715; died in Munster in 1778. He became a member of the Jesuit order, and in 1748 was ordered as a missionary to Chili. He remained twenty years in the missions of Concepcion, and explored the country in parts that were until then entirely unknown, pushing as far as lat. 49º S., and visiting the unsubdued tribes of Araucanians, Guaycurus, Huilliches, and Pehuenches. As he spoke fluently the Chilidugu, a dialect used by the traders with the Indian tribes, he had an opportunity to gather valuable information about the customs, statistics, and natural history of the aborigines. When the expulsion of the Jesuits was decreed on 29 June, 1768, Havestad was arrested and returned to Germany, where he published "Chilidugu, sive res Chilenses" (2 vols., Munster, 1777). This work is now very rare.
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