OF THE PATAGONIANS. 
and reduce his eloquent memoire to a fingle narrative of un- 
contefted veracity. 
Terr food is (almoft entirely) animal: the flefh of horfes, 
oxen, guanacoes, and oftriches, all of which they eat roafted or 
boiled. Their drink is'water, except in the feafon when cer- 
tain fpecies of fruit are ripe, for of thofe they make a fort of 
fermenting liquor called Chacha, common to many parts of 
South America. One kind is made of a podded fruit called /- 
garrova, which fimells like a bug, and when bruifed in water 
becomes an inebriating liquor. The fame fruit is alfo eaten as 
bread. The other Chucha is made of the Mole, a {mall fruit, 
hot and fweet in the mouth: both thefe caufe a deep drunken- 
nefs, efpecially the laft, which excites a phrenetic inebriation, and 
a wildnefs of eyes, which lafts two or three days, 
Tue cloathing of thefe people is either a mantle of fkins, or 
of a woollen * cloth manufactured by themfelves; fome is fo 
ftrong and compact as even to hold water: the color is various, 
for fome are ftriped and dyed with the richeft red, made of 
cochineal and certain roots. They wear a fhort apron before, 
which is tucked between the legs, and preferves a modeft ap- 
pearance. They never wear feathered ornaments, except in 
their dances. ‘Their hair is long, and tied up with a fillet. 
They have naturally beards}, but they generally pluck up 
the hairs; not but fome leave muftaches, as was obferved by 
Mr. Carteret and M. Bougainville. 
* The Puelches have no fheep but what they purchafe from the Voluches, 
who inhabit the dzdes, cultivate fheep, and raife corn; the wool is equally fine 
with that of Old Spain. 
+ MM. Premontal roundly afferts that they have no beards. 
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