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vigation -, fome time after, they arrived in a: 

 country which extended two hundred leagues, 

 and was inhabited by a nation who called them- 

 felvcs Efcaaniba. 



The Frenchmen (for the ten travellers were 

 of that nation) found much gold with thefe 

 people. Their king pretended to deduce his 

 origin from. Montezuma \ his name was Agau- 

 zan^ and he kept a Handing army of an hundred 

 thoufand men in time of peace. The Efcaanibci 

 women were jvhite as die European women ; they 

 and the men of that nation had long ears, to 

 which they faftened gold rings. One of their 

 diftindlions was, to let their nails grow r poly- 

 gamy was permitted ainong them ^ tliey did' not 

 pay any attention to their daughters, who lived 

 in the greatefb liberty, without any one to watch 

 over their conduct. Their country produced to- 

 bacco, various fruits, fome common to Europe 

 and India^ and fome that were peculiar to it ; 

 the rivers abounded with fifh ; their forefts were 

 full of game of every kind, and contained above 

 all a great number of parrots. The capital was 

 fituated at fix leagues from the river, which they 

 called Miffi^ Golden river. They valued gold 

 fo little, that they permitted the French to take 

 as much as they pleafed with them : you may 



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