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alone go through the whole work in fuch a regular 

 methoii and great difpatch. If the bead be fwifter 

 than his horfe, the Guafo has recourfe to his nocfe* - 

 and halters him by throwing it either about his 

 neck, or round one or two of his legs, according 

 as opportunity offers, and by that means fecures 

 him. Then if a tree be near at hand, he gives the 

 end of the thong two or three turns round the 

 trunk, and the whole difficulty of killing the beafl: 

 is over. 



The tallow is wrapt up in the hides, and in this 

 manner carried to the city for fale ; the GrafTa is 

 melted into bags of fheep-fkins ; the flefh, after be- 

 ing cut into thin flices, is faked, and this is what 

 they call Taflagear; afterwards it is buccaneered or 

 dried in the fmoke,* and fold. The hides they tan, 

 and make from them a moft excellent leather, clpe- 

 cially for the foles of fhoes.-f Goats alfo as we have 

 already obferved, are fattened and turn to good ac- 

 count. Their tallow nearly refembles that of the 

 ox, and the Cordovan leather make of their fkins 

 lurpafles every thing of that kind made in any part of 

 the whole kingdom of Peru. 



All other provifions and grain are in the lame 

 plenty, turkeys, geefe, and all kinds of poultry are fold 

 at a remarkable low price, great numbers of them 

 being bred all over the country, with little care and 

 ncr expence. Wild fowls alfo are very common, 

 among which are canelones, and others defcribed among 

 the birds found in the defarts of Quito, tho' thefe are 

 not fo large, and more like the bandarrias as they are 

 there called. Here are alfo wood pigeons, turtle 

 doves, partridges, fnipes, woodcocks, and royal cira- 



* They dry it in the fan, by which it attaias a rufty colour, 

 and appears as though ic had Deen dried in fmoke. A. 



t They tan Uiin leather with th« bark of the mangrove tree. A. 



picos, 



