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skins, without pillows or any thing else'; and on these 

 they sleep in their usual squatting posture : and as 

 thej^ ne\^er ündreás, appear tilwa:ys in the same^arb. 



Though the Indian women breed fowl and other 

 domestic animals in tlieir cottages, they never eat 

 them: and even conceive such a fondness for them 

 that they will not even sell them, much less kill them 

 with their own hands ; so that if a stranger, who is 

 <)biiged to pass the night in oneoftlieir cottages, of- 

 fers ever so much money for a foMl, they refuse to 

 part with it, and he finds himself under the necessity 

 ofkillingthe fowl himself At this hislandlady shrieks, 

 dissolves in tears, and wrings her hands, as if it Had 

 been an only son ; till, seeing the mischief past reme- 

 dy, she wipes her eyes, and quietly takes wh.it the 

 traveller offers her. 



Many of them in their journeys take their wiiole 

 family with them ; the women carrying on their 

 shoulders such children as are unable to walk The 

 cottages in the mean time are shut up; and there 

 being no furniture to lose, a string, or thong of lea- 

 ther, serves for a lock : their animals, if the Joarney 

 is to last for several days, they carry to the cottage 

 of some neighbour or acquaintance : ifotherwise, their 

 curs are left guardians of the whole; and these dis'- 

 charge their trust with such care, that thty will fly 

 at any one, except their masters, who offers to come 

 near the cottage. And here it is worth observing, that 

 dogs bred by Spaniards and Mestizos have such a 

 hatred to the Indians, that, if one of them ap])roaches 

 a house where he is not very well known, they fall 

 upon him, and, if not called off", tear him to pieces : 

 on the other hand, the dogs of Indian breed are 

 animated Mdth the same rage against the ¡Spaniards 

 and Mestizos ; and, like the former, scent them at a 

 distance. 



The Indians, except those brought up in cities 

 or tOMUS, speak no language but their own, calied 



Quichua, 



