Ch. IV. SOUTH AMERICA. 31 



cially women, are met with, it is only accidental ; 

 theie generally rending in their houfes ; at leaft, if 

 they are of any rank or charadler. 



Thksk cafts, from the Mulattos, all aíFeél the Spa- 

 niih drefs, but wear very flight ItufFs on account of 

 the heat of the climate. Th.efe arc the mechanics of 

 the city ; the Whites, whether Creoles or Chapitones, 

 dildaining iuch a mean occupation, follow nothing 

 below mcrchandile. But it being irapoHible for all to 

 Uicceed, great numbers not being able to procure fuf- 

 ficient creilit, they become poor and miferable from 

 their avcriion to thole trades they follow in Europe ; 

 and, iniiead of the riches which they flattered them- 

 felves with pofleffing in the Indies, they experience the 

 moil complicated wretchednefs. 



The clafs of Negroes is not thclcall numerous, and 

 is divided into two parts; the fn.e and the ilayes. 

 Thefe are again fubdivided into Creoles and Bozares, 

 part of which are employed in the cultivation of the 

 haziandes *, or eflancias. Thofc in the city are ob- 

 liged to perform the moil laborious ft rv ices, and pay 

 out of their wages a certain quota to their maflers, fub- 

 íiíling themfelveson the fmall remainder. The violence 

 of the heat not permitting them to wear any clothes, 

 their only covering is a fmall piece of cotton íluíF about 

 their waiit ; the lemale llaves go in the fame manner. 

 Some of thefe live at the efiancias, being married to the 

 flaves who work there ; while ihofe in the city fell in 

 the markets all kind of eatables, and dry fruits, fweet- 

 meats, cakes made of the maize, and caííava, and feve- 

 ral other thin2;s about thefireets. Thofc who have chiU 

 dren fucking at their breafl, which is the cafe of the ge- 

 nerality, carry them on their fhoulders, in order to have 

 their arms at liberty; and when the infants are hungry, 



fon of the great number of ilaves be^.mging to it, often equals a. 

 confiderable village. < 



* Hazianda in tbis place fignifies a country -houfe, with the lands 

 belonging to it. 



they 



