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either with regard to themfelves oy their daughters, 

 that their mifery may not be perpetual, but endeavour 

 to find them mafters whom they may attend up the 

 country, to Santa Fe, Popyan, Quito, and Peru, 

 whither their inclination or profpeéls lead them. 



1'hey who remain in the city, whether bound by 

 one of the above marriages, O", which is but too com- 

 mon, are in another conditio n very dangerous to their 

 future liappinefs, turn Pulperos *, Canoeros, or fuch- 

 like mean occupati-ons : in all which, they are fo iia- 

 rafled with labour, and their wages fo fmali, that their 

 conditon in their own country mufl have been mife- 

 rable indeed, if they have not reaibn to regret quitting 

 it. The height of their enjoyment, after toiling all 

 day and part of the night, is to regale with bananas, 

 a cake oi' maize or caiava, which fervcs for bread, and 

 a nice ot cafajo, or hung-beef ; without tailing wheat 

 bread during the whole year. 



Others, not a few, equally unfortunate, retire to 

 fome fmall eftancia, where, in a Bujio, or ftraw hut, 

 they live little different from beans, cultivating, in a 

 very fmall fpot, fuch vegetables as are at hand, and 

 fubfifling on the fale of them. 



What has been obferved with regard to the Negro 

 and Mulatto women, and which may alfo be extended 

 to the other cafts, is, as to the charitable part, appli- 

 cable to all the women and whites; who, in every 

 tribe, are of a very mild and amiable difpoiition ; and 

 from their natural foftncls and lympathy excel the 

 Pxicn in the praátice of that Chrifiian virtue. 



Among the reigning cuítoms here, ibmc are very 

 dlíFerent from thoie of Spain, or the moil known 

 parts of Europe. The principal of thelb are the ufe 

 of brandy, chocolate, honey, fweetmeats, and Irao- 

 icing tobacco ; all which ihall be taken notice of. 



* Pulperos are men who work in a kind of tent, called in Spanifli 

 Pulperios, and the Canoeros are waLcm t.i who cany goods in Pi- 

 rogues or Canoes. 



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