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they used to make their lance points of it. Now they make use of 

 iron from the swords and knives and other articles of steel and 

 iron which they have taken and stolen from the travelers on their 

 way from the New Kingdom to Peru. These savages are a depraved 

 race, and cannibals; they live like the Bedouin, without towns or 

 villages. They have certain moons in which they go raiding and 

 pillaging other provinces adjoining ; and they return from their 

 raiding and plundering loaded with captives, whom they divide up 

 among themselves, to be eaten, for which they hold cannibal feasts. 

 They usually get as far as the city of Tocaima, which is 40 leagues 

 from Bogota. 



