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of the Indian dancers, at their feftivals. 

 But the Indians are particularly careful 

 not to touch their food whilft they are 

 preparing thefe (hells, nor afterwards, 

 until their hands have undergone the 

 like procefs of purification. 



Nibbees (as they are termed both by 

 the Indians and White Inhabitants) are a 

 fpecies of ligneous cordage, of great 

 length and of different magnitude, from 

 half an inch diameter to eighteen inches 

 circumference : thefe are what the Spa- 

 niards call Bejucos. They are extreme- 

 ly numerous in the interior and more 

 elevated part of the country, where 

 they are feen mounting to the tops of 

 the higheft trees, deftitute both of 

 leaves and branches, from thence de- 

 fending to the earth, again taking root, 

 and remounting the next tree thus 

 communicating from tree to tree to a 

 great diftance, in oblique, horizontal, 

 H 2 and 



