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steeply-sloping bank. One dog, however, turned 

 round when he reached the top and barked at me. 

 I fired (with shot) at his legs, intending only to 

 wound him, but his shattered legs failing him, he 

 rolled howling down the bank into the river and 

 was drowned. His body was retained in an eddy a 

 little lower down, and there it was found by the 

 women when they went to fetch water at daybreak. 

 The Governor had told me to shoot those pilfering 

 dogs, for they were vagabonds who had no owners ; 

 but this one chanced to belong to an old woman, 

 who made an outcry about it, and the Governor told 

 me that if I did not succeed in pacifying her we 

 might have some difficulty in getting our com- 

 plement of mariners, so I sent for her and asked her 

 how much she wanted for her dog. She said ten 

 needles ! I was glad to give her an entire packet 

 of the best I had, with which she went away content, 

 having therewith enough to buy three dogs such as 

 the one she had lost. 



Andoas differs from Pinches only in size, as it 

 contains some twenty houses and about sixty 

 married couples, but the aspect is equally miserable. 

 The walls of the houses are of wild cane or palm, 

 while the church is of bamboo stems opened out 

 into boards, and in a very dilapidated state. The 

 church divides the town into two nearly equal 

 portions or partidos, that to the south or down 

 the river being inhabited by Indians of the Andoas 

 nation, and that to the north by Indians of the 

 Shimigai tribe. ... In external appearance the 

 two tribes inhabiting the village of Andoas show no 

 difference. The men are of lowish stature, not 

 robust, mouth w r ide, but lips not disproportionately 



