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alone go through the whole work in üvh a regular 

 frerl;od and great di'patch. If the beaft be fwlftcr 

 than his horie, the Giiafo has recourfe to his noofe, 

 and halters him by throwing it cither about his 

 ~neck, or round one or two of his legs, according 

 as opportunity offers, and by that means ftcures 

 him. Then if a tree be near at hand, he gives the 

 end of the thong two or three turns round the 

 trunk, and the whole difEculty of killing the beaft 

 is over. 



The tallow is wrapt up in the hides, and in this 

 manner carried to the city for fale; the Grafía is 

 melted into bags of iheep fí^'ns ; the flefli, after 

 being cut into thin dices, is faked, and this is what 

 they call TaiTagear; afterwards it is buccaneered or 

 dried in the fmoke,* and fold. The hides they tan, 

 and make from them a moil excellent leather, efpe- 

 cially for the foles of ihoes.f Goats alfo as we have 

 already obferved, are fattened and turn to good ac- 

 count. Their tallow nearly refembles that of the ox, 

 and die Cordovan leather riiade of their Ikins fur- 

 paffes every thing of that kind made in any part of 

 the whole kingdom of Peru, 



All other provifions and grain are in the fame 

 plenty, turkeys, geefe, and all kinds of poultry are 

 ibid at a remarkable low price, great numbers of them 

 being bred all over the country, with little care and 

 no expence. Wild fowls alfo are very common, 

 among; which are canelones, and others dcfcribed among 

 the birds found in the defarts of Quito, though thele 

 are not fo large, and more like the bandarrias as they 

 are there called. Here arc alfo wood pigeons, turtle 

 doves, partridges, fnipes, woodcocks, and royal cira- 



* They dry it in the lunf by which it attains a rully colour, and 

 appears as thougn it had been dried in fmoke. A. 



f They tan thin leather with the bark of the mangrove tree. A, 



picos. 



