you fee it coming out of her nofe and 

 ears. She then hands the pipe to the 

 next lady, who does the fame, till it has 

 gone through the whole company. Their 

 houfes are but very mean, as will be ea- 

 fily imagined by what I have faid of the 

 governor's. They make their fire in the 

 middle of their rooms ; but have no 

 chimneys ; there is a fmall hole at each 

 end of the roof, to let the fmoke out. It 

 is only the better fort of people that eat 

 bread made of wheat, as they grow but 

 very little here, and they have no mills 

 to grind it ; but then they have great 

 plenty of the finefl potatoes in the world: 

 thefe are always roafled in the allies, 

 then fcraped, and ferved up at meals in- 

 flcad of bread. They breed abundance 

 of fwine, as they fuppiy both Chili and 

 Peru with hams. They are in no want 

 of fheep, but are not overftocked with 

 cows ; owing, in a great meafure, to 



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