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own fifter, daughter, or a more diftant relation ; fo 

 Ihocking are the excefles to which they give them- 

 felves up on thefe folemnities, which are fometimes 

 continued three or four days, till the priefts find them- 

 felves obliged to go in perfon, throw away all the 

 chicha, and difperfe the Indians, left they (hould buy 

 more. 



The day after the feftival is called concho, which 

 fignifies the day for drinking off the remains of the 

 preceding : with thefe they begin ; and if not fuffi- 

 cient to complete their revel, every one of the guefts 

 runs home to his houfe, and fetches a jug, or they 

 club for more. This occafions a new concho for the 

 next day : and thus, if left to themfelves, from day 

 to day, till either no more chicha is to be had, or 

 they left without money or credit. 



Their burials are likewife folemnized with excef- 

 five drinking. The houfe of mourning is filled with 

 jugs of chicha-, and not for the folace of the mourners 

 and their vifitors alone; the latter go out into the 

 ftreets, and invite all of their nation who happen to pafs 

 by, whether married or fingle of both fexes, to come 

 in and drink to the honour of the deceafed ; and to 

 this invitation they will take no denial. The cere- 

 mony lafts four or five days, and fometimes more, 

 ftrong liquor being their fupreme wiih, and the great 

 objedt of all their labours. 



If the Indians are thus excefllvely addidled to in- 

 temperance, gaming is a fault with which they can- 

 not be charged ; though thefe two vices are generally 

 feen together. They feem to have no manner of in- 

 clination for play ; nor have they above one kind, and 

 that of great antiquity among them ; this they call 

 pafa, i. e. a hundred, as he wins who firft gets that 

 number. They play at it with two inftruments *, one 

 a fpread eagle of wood with ten holes on each fide, 

 being tens ; and are marked v;ith pegs, to denote 

 every man's gettings : the other i? a boi;ie in the man- 



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