17a A VOYAGE TO Book IV, 



veifels, is found very durable, being not fubjeál either 

 to fpUt or rot *. 



The Indians here pay their annual tribute in the 

 wood of the mangrove, which is ufed occafionally in 

 iiich works as its nature is belt adapted to. 



The lieutenancy of Yaguachc is at the mouth of 

 the river of the fame name, which falls into that of 

 Guayaquil on the Touth ñde ; and has its rife from 

 the llcirts of the Cordillera, Ibuth of the river Bamba. 

 Its jurifdiclion contains three towns; the principal, 

 that where the cuftom-houfe is ere 6led, is San Jacinto 

 de Yaguache ; the two others are Noufa and An- 

 tonche. To thefe belong two prieiis, one rending at 

 Yaguache, and the other at Noufa. Though thefe 

 towns are but thinly inhabited, the farms and coun- 

 try have great numbers, particularly of the poorer 

 fort. 



The chief produ61ion of Yaguache is wood, and a 

 little cacao : but cattle and cotton are the principal 

 objeéls of their attention. 



Babahoyo, a name fufficiently known in all theib 

 countries, it being the feat of the grand cuftom-houfe 

 for every thing going into the Cordillera, or coming 

 from thence, has a very large jurifdi61ion, in which, 

 bt'hdes the principal town, are thofe of Ujiba, Cara- 

 col, Quilea, and Mangaches ; the two laft border on 

 the Cordillera, and are a conliderable diftance from 

 Ujiba, where the priefi: reiides during the winter, re- 

 moving in the fummer to Babahoyo ; which, belides 

 its fettled inhabitants, has always a great number of 

 traders from other parts. 



* The mangrove fhootá out collateral branches, which bend down, 

 take root, and put out others which do the fame, ib rhat one tree in a 

 fevv years covers a large (pace of ground. Thofe ftems that are 

 within th? reach of high-water riiark are generally covered with a 

 fmall kind of oy Tier, called marjgrove oyfters, which are eaten by the 

 natives. The bark of the trt;e is iifcd to tan leather, in which it iuc- 

 iceeds veiry well, bnt ¿ivca-ihe leatbtr -.i. ciiuch higher colour than oak 

 bark. A. 



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