the South- Sea. 



of Diffi.es, made of Calabaflies, or Gourds, which they 

 call Mate, placed in a Ring on the Grafs, full of Bread 

 fteep'd in a Liquor made of Wine, and Maiz^ or Indian 

 Wheat. Then the Indians^ who treated, brought each of 

 die Guefts a Bomboo Cane, about 18 or 20 Foot long, 

 garnilh'd with Bread, Flefh and Apples, made lad about 

 it : Then having mov'd with a Cadency about the Meat, 

 a little red Standard, with a white Crofs in the Middle, 

 was given to him that was appointed to make the Com- 

 pliment to the, Indians ; they, on their part, deputed one 

 to anfwer him, who made fuch a long Difcourfe of Com- 

 pliments, that it lafted above an Hour : I ask'd the Reafon, 

 and was told, it was the Effect of their Style, which is fo 

 diffufe, that to talk of the moft inconfiderable Thing, they 

 go back to its very Original, and make a thoufand need- 

 le fs Digreflions. 



When they had eaten, they mounted on a Sort of Scaf- 

 fold made like an Amphitheatre, the Standard being in 

 the Middle, and the others with their long Canes by it. 

 There, being adorn' d with Feathers of Oftriches, Flamen- 

 co's, and other Birds of fprightly Colours, fluck round 

 their Caps, they fell to finging to the Sound of two In- 

 ftruments, made of a Piece of Wood, with only one Hole 

 ±>ored through it 5 blowing in which, either ftronger or 

 more gently, they form'd a Sound more or lefs fliarp, or 

 flat. They kept Meafure alternatively with a Trumpet 

 made of a Bull's Horn, faftned to the End of a long Cane, 

 the Mouth of which had a Pipe, that founds like a Trum- 

 pet. They fill'd up this Symphony with fome Strokes of 

 a Drum, whofe heavy and doleful Sound was anfwerable 

 enough to their Mien ; which, in the Height of their Ex- 

 clamations, had nothing in it that was gay. I obferv'd 

 them attentively on the Stage, and did not, during the 

 whole Feftival, fee one fmiling Countenance among them. 



The Women gave therii Chicha to drink, being a Sort of 

 Beer, of which more hereafter, with a Wooden Inft rumen t 

 about two Foot and a half long, confifting of a Handle- 



K Cup 



