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Now with full force the yielding bow he bends. 

 Drawn to an arch, and joins the doubling ends i 

 Clofe to his breaft he ftrains the nerve below. 

 Till the barb'd point approach the circling bow^ 

 Th' impatient weapon whizzes on the wing. 

 Sounds the tough bow, and twangs the quivering ftring. 



Pope's Homer. 



I ITiall only add farther oo this fubjedlj: that when thefe 

 Indians go to war they chufe one g'eneral commander,, 

 ^vhom they diftinguifh by the title of £////. 



The tratfe or traffic which the Indians of Guiana carry 

 on with the Dutch corififts chiefly in flaveB, earthen jars^ 

 canoes, hammocks, bafkets. Brazil-wood, hiaree-roots^ 

 macaws, parrots, monkeys, balfani capivi, arracocerra,. 

 earaba or crab oil, and arnotta,. for which they receive 

 in return checquered cloth, fire-arms, gun -powder^ 

 hatchets, knives, fcifTars, different coloured beads, look-- 

 ing-glaifes, fifli-hooks, combs, needles, pins, 8ic. The 

 haljam capivi exudes from the bark of ra thick tree that 

 grows far inland, with large pmnted leaves, bearing a 

 fruit like a cucumber. This gum is yellow, hard, and 

 tranfparent, refembling amber ; when melted, it has an 

 agreeable fmell : its \ifes aire for Varnifh, and to fcop diu- 

 retic complaints, The gum called arracocerra ex- 

 udes from an inland tree alfb ; it is yellow as the former,, 

 but tenacious and foft ; it has a moil fragrant fmell, and 

 is held in great efteem by the Europeans as well as In- 

 9 dians^ 



