408 A VOYAGE TO Book VT. 



iier of a die, cut M'ith seven faces ; one of which has 

 a particular mark, and is called guayro. The other 

 five tell according to the number of them ; and the 

 last is a blank. The way of playing is only to toss 

 up the bone; and the marks on the upper surface are 

 so many got. But the guayro goes for ten ; and the 

 like number is lost if the blank side appears. Though 

 this game is peculiar to the Indians, it is very little 

 used except at their revels. 



The common food of the Indians, as before ob- 

 served, is maize made into camcha or mote, and 

 machca; the manner of preparing the latter is, to 

 roast the gíáin, and then reduce it toaflour ; and this 

 without any other apparatus or ingredient, they eat 

 hy spoonfuls; two or tlnee of which, and a draught 

 of chicha, or, whentliat is wanting, of water, completes 

 their repast. Wlien they set out on a journey, their 

 whole viaticifm is a little hag, which they call gucri- 

 ta, full of this meal, and a spoon. And this suffices 

 for a journey of fifty or a hundred leagues. When 

 hungry, or iatigued, they stop at some place where 

 chiclia is to be had, or at some Avater ; where, after 

 taking a spoonful of their 'meal into their mouth, 

 they keep it some time, in order the more easily to 

 swallow it ; and \\ ith two or three such spoonfuls, 

 well diluted with chicha, or, if that is not to be had, 

 with M'ater, they set forward as cheerfully as if risen 

 from a feast. 



The lit habitations, as may be imagined, are very 

 small ; consisting of a little cottage, in the middle 

 of which is their fire-place. Here both they and 

 the animals they breed, live promiscuously. They have 

 a particular fondness for dogs ; and never are without 

 three or four little curs in their hut: a hog or two, 

 a little poultry, and cuyes, with some earthen ware, 

 as pots, aiTfd jugs, and the cotton which their wives 

 spin, constitute the v.hole inventory of an Indian's 

 effects. Their beds consist of two or three sheep- 



sldns, 



