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the woods ; \;^hich if they would be at 

 the pains to do, they might have fuffi- 

 cient pafture. Their trade confifts in 

 hams, hogs4ard, which is ufed through- 

 out all South America inftead of butter, 

 cedar plank, which the Indians are con- 

 tinually employed in cutting quite to the 

 foot of the Cordilleras, little carved boxes, 

 which the Spanifli ladies ufe to put their 

 work in, carpets, quilts, and punchos 

 neatly embroidered all round ; for thefe, 

 both in Chili and Peru, are ufed by the 

 people of the firfl: fafliion, as well as the 

 inferior fort, by way of riding-drefs, and 

 are efteemed to be much more convenient 

 for a horfeman than any kind of coat 

 whatever. 



They have what they call an annual 

 fliip from Lima, as they never expedl 

 more than one in the year 5 though 

 fometimes it happens that two have 

 come, and at other times they have been 

 two or three years without any. When 



this 



