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Chap. II; 





The Nature, 

 Cultoms, and 

 Manners of 



The Seamen who went under Hendrick Brewer's Command, Anno 1 643. from 

 Brafile to Chili, brought the fore.mention'd Vocabulary along with them. 



Chdi is look'd upon as no way inferior to any Countrey in America, enjoying 

 a wholfom Air, fruitful Soil, and abundance of Inhabitants, who often furnifli 

 Peru with Provifions ; which are the fpeedier convcy'd thither, becaufe the South- 

 Winds' always blow along the Coaft. 



The Peruvian Vice.Roy keeps a Deputy to Govern here. It hath two Bifliop. 

 ricks, v*^. St. Jago and U Imperial. 



Some of the Clnkjes are under the Spaniards Jurifdidion, and live in Huts • 

 ihcau,f,<. others being wilder, defend their Freedom with the Sword. They have great 

 Heads and flat Nofes : The Men continually pull out the Hair on their Faces and 

 Privities with Shells, which they carry about their Necks for that purpofe, having 

 beforehand rubbed the Hair with warm Ames ; the Hair of their Heads hanging 

 downwards iscutclofe as far as their Ears, the reft growing long, is ty'd with the 

 Ribbon Tarwdonco, to which Perfons of Quality fix Silver Plates and Turkoifes : 

 Some alfo cover their Heads with the Skins of Weazels, or the like Beafts, putting 

 the Head over their Foreheads, and the Tail down their -Neck ■ which kind of Co- 

 vering they call Mamftohneo : Others wear Caps made after fome ftrange manner 

 or other. 



. The Cbikfaue not the talleft, but ftrong and well fet, betwixt a white and 

 fallow colour : Thofe that are in the Spaniards Service, wear long Hair, by which 

 they are diftmguifiVd from the morn Ucais, who do the Spaniards all the mifchief 

 imaginable. The Women are for the moft part low of ftatare, but of a ftrong 

 Conftitution t they go bare-headed, letting their Hair hang loofeover their Shoul, 

 . ders,e X cept when they are indifpos'd, and then they tie it up : But thofe that dwell 

 about Cajlro wear Locks like our Englifh Ladies. In Qquimbo and Loquimbo they go 

 after the fame manner as the Peruvian^ omen : All of them have thick black Hair. 

 Their Apparel, though mean, is neat : The Men wear wide Breeches girt about 

 their Waftes, and a piece of woollen Cloth, three Yards long and two broad which 



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