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from choice, to pass rapidly to the third period 

 of social life. 



These plants, which have heen described in 

 the first part of this work, were the maize, the 

 mag 11, the guegen, the tuca, the quinoa, pulse of 

 various kinds, the potatoe, the oxalis tuberosa, 

 the cemmon and the yellow pumkin or gourd, 

 the Guinea pepper, the madi, and the 'great 

 strawberry. To these provisions of the vege- 

 table kind, which are far from despicable, may 

 be added the little rabbit, the Chiliheuque, or 

 Araucanian camel, whose flesh furnished excel- 

 lent food, and whose wool, clothing for these 

 people. If tradition may be credited, they had 

 a1o the hog and the domestic fowl. Their do- 

 minion over the tribe of animals was not ex- 

 tended beyond these, although they might at 

 readily have domesticated the guanaco, a very 

 useful animal, thepudu, a species of wild goat, 

 and various birds with which the country 

 abounds. 



However, with these productions, which re-|^ 

 quired but a very moderate degree of industry, 

 they subsisted comfortably, and even with a 

 degree of abundance, considering the few things 

 which their, situation rendered necessary. 



To this circumstance is owing, that the Spa^ 

 niards, who under the command of Almagro in- 

 vaded Chili, found upon their entering its valley 

 an abundance of provisions to recruit themselves 

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