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ner of a die, cut wkh feven faces ; one of which has 

 a particular mark, and is called guayro. The other 

 five tell according to the number of them and the 

 laft is a blank. The way of playing is only to tofs 

 up the bone-, and the marks on the upper furface are 

 ' fo many got. But the guayro goes for ten : and the 

 like number is loft if the blank fide appears. Though 

 this game is peculiar to the Indians, it is very little 

 ufed except at their revels. 



The common food of the Indians, as before ob- 

 ferved, is maize made into camcha or mote, and 

 machca : the manner of preparing the latter is, to roaft 

 fhe grain, and then reduce it to a flour; and this, 

 -without any other apparatus or ingredient, they eat 

 Idv fpoonfuls ; two or three <)f which, and a draught 

 of chicha, or, when that is wanting, of water, completes 

 their repaft. A¥hen they fet out on a journey, their 

 whole viaticum is a little bag, which they call gucri- 

 ta, full of this meal, and a fpoon. And this fuHices 

 for a journey of fifty or a hundred leagues. Wheri 

 hungry, or fatigued, they fcop at fpme place where 

 chicha is to be had, or at fome water-, where, after 

 taking a fpoonful of their meal into their mouth, 

 they keep it (omQ time, in order the more eafily to 

 fwallow it ; and with two or three fuch fpoonfuls, well 

 diluted with chicha, or, if that is not to be had, with 

 water, they fee forward as chearfully as if rifen froni 

 a feaft. 



Their habitations, as may be imagined, arc very 

 final! -, confiding of a little cottage, in the middle 

 pf w^hich is their fire-place. Here both they and 

 the animals they breed live promifcuoufly. They have 

 a particular fondnefs for dogs-, and never are without 

 three or four little curs in their hut : a hog or two, 

 a little poultry, and cuyes ; with fqme earthen ware, 

 as pots, and jugs, and the cotton which their wives 

 fpin^ conftitute the whole inventory of an Indian's 

 sefFedts. Their beds confift of two or three fheep- 



fkins^ 



