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As the Indians have but little, and 

 often no Salt, whenever they have a 

 greater quantity of animal food than is 

 required for prefent ufe, they preferve it 

 after the manner of the Darien Indians,, 

 by drying and fmoaking it over a fmall 

 fire; and when the fucculency is, by 

 that means, diffipated, it may be kept 

 for many months without danger of pu- 

 trefaction. 



The fimplicity of the lives of thefts 

 people, the paucity of their wants, and 

 the eafe with which they are fuppiied, 

 in a country fo happily fituated, and fo 

 liberally endowed with the neceffuies 

 of life, leaves the greater part of their 

 time unoccupied with the cares of 

 procuring fu ft e nance, in which they 

 have ample leifure to purfue the various 

 modes of amufement and pleafure, which 

 are moft agreeable to their fimple, ruftic 

 inclinations: A part of thcfe idle hours 



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