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them fome jars of a liquor they called 

 chicha, made of barley-meal, and not 

 very unlike our oat-ale in tafte, which 

 will intoxicate thofe who drink a fufE- 

 cient quantity of it ; for a little has no 

 effeft. As foon as the drink was out, a 

 frefli fupply of vidluals was brought in ; 

 and in this manner w^e pafled the whole 

 time we remained with thefe hofpitablc' 

 Indians. They are a ftrong well made 

 people, extremely well featured, both 

 men and women, and vaftly neat in their 

 perfons. The mens drefs is called by 

 them a puncho, which is a fquare piece 

 of cloth, generally in ftripes of different 

 colours, with a flit in the middle of it 

 wide enough to let their heads through, 

 fo that it hangs on their flioulders, 

 half of it falling before, and the other 

 behind them : under this they wear a 

 fliort kind of flannel ftiirt without fleeves 

 or neck. They have wide-kneed 

 breeches, fomething like the Dutch 



feamen, 



