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villagers, who infifted-on regaling as with new- 

 kid egg! 



Molt of the gardens were fdrrounded 

 dTirubs, which I remarked the jutr>/p, 



:s, the plants of which f*rev* r To cloi 

 gether as to form good palitades: its feeds have 



tafte o( a filbert, and 'are far fromberng dif- 

 agreeable. The natives caufiolied us that, al- 

 though eaten even in fmall quantities, they 

 caiioned a great drowflnefs ; they were 

 aware that the narcotic quality of this fruit is 

 feated in the part known to botaniils by the 

 name of the embryo, I had the fatisfaclion of 

 informing them, that, after taking this out, they 

 might eat the kernel in perfect fafety. We pro- 

 ceeded into the interior of the country, where 

 we obferved feverail plants of bixa -oreUaru cul- 

 tivated without much trouble. 



When we arrived pretty near the entrance of 

 the roadftcad, we perceived at a diftance feveral 

 large canoes, which were woi king to windward, 

 in order to reach it, and faw others which were 

 already nenr its entrance. 



Our little canoe had reached the rendezvous, 

 when the flood occasioned a cockling fca, which 

 was very troublefomc to the paddlcrs. We were 

 imdcr the nect .-flity of waiting till it became 

 fmoother, before we could again take boat, to 



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