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kery is a Creature like a Hog, and as fweet Meat. 

 On the twenty firft at three in the Afternoon, Or- 

 ders were given to march, which we all did, down 

 the fame River we came up, but did not go above 

 a quarter of a Mile before we mounted one of their 

 Mountains the Path was fo narrow, that but one 

 Man could march, and aim oft Perpendicular ; fo 

 that we were forced to hawl our felves up by Twigs 

 of Trees ; it was above a Mile and a half high, and 

 not twenty Yards of plain Ground on it, fo that 

 fome of the Men fainted, and were ordered back a- 

 gain to the Houfe we came from: Don Pedro ha- 

 ving given Directions to all the Indians to take them 

 into their Houfes, and to let them not want for 

 any thing that could be got for them by Women 

 and Children, left in that Country, for he took 

 all the Men along with him. About feven in the 

 Evening we got to the Top of this Mountain, where 

 we lodg'd that Night in a Houfe, but not big 

 enough to hold our People, the reft lay without, 

 we being in all 482 Engli/h, befides Indians, of 

 whom at that time they had no more than a Hun- 

 dred under Pedro, but moft of them very brisk 

 young Fellows, each of them having two Lances, 

 two Bows, and about twenty Arrows. They are 

 all naked, having long black Hair hanging down 

 to their Waftes, and a Horn which they put their 

 Yards into, ty'd with a String, and a very large 

 piece of Gold, with a Ring in the ft? ape of a half 

 Moon, reaching from Ear to Ear, and a Hole in 

 . their Nofe, into which the Ring goes; and for the 

 Women they have a Clout about their Pofteriors, 

 and only a Ring in their Nofes : They value not 

 Money, for they had rather have fmall Beads, 

 which are but of little value. Since the French Py- 

 rates have been amongft them, they have learnt 

 how to make ufe of Fire-Arms, but very unhandi- 

 ly : Don Pedro had a very good Gun and Hanger, 



