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put out of the way, to prevent Danger in cafe 

 of quarrelling. They divert themfelves fom- 

 timesby dancing, and piping on a finall hollow 

 Bamboe,but Vv'ithoutdiflinftion of Notes : The 

 Men and Women never dance nor feaft toge- 

 ther, but apart. The Women accompany them 

 Jikewife in their bunting Expeditions, which 

 (bmetimes laft 20 days : They tie their Ham- 

 mocks betwuct two Trees, cover them with 

 Plantain Leaves, and have Fires all night by 

 their Hammocks : Such of their Prey as they 

 take a Hunting, and defign to keep for future 

 ufe, they barbecue in the Woods ; and what: 

 they make ufe of for prefent Suftenance, they 

 miK with Roots, Plantain, Bonanoes, and 

 Pepper, and liew it together till it be brought 

 to a Pulps which they take up with the two 

 foremoiV Fingers of their right Hand bent 

 hookwife, and put into their Mouths. They 

 travel by dire£l-ion of the Sun, or the bending 

 of the Trees, according as the Wind is. None 

 of the E^glffl? Authors take notice of their Wor- 

 jThip or Religion, but give an account that they 

 pawaw, or confult the Devil to know Futuri- 

 ties : and it would feem they are as ignorant 

 in matters of Phyfick and Chirurgery, fince 

 when they would let a Patient blood, they fet 

 him upon the Bank of a River, and with a 

 little Bow, and fmall Arrow, gag'd that it 

 may enter no further than our Lancets, they 

 fhoot as faft as they can at all parts of the Pa- 

 tient's Body ; and if they chance to hit on a 



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