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there is Water, they mix it in a Horn call'd Guampo, which 

 always hangs at the Pommel of their Saddles, and thus 

 eat and drink without flopping. 

 Their Drink Their common Drink is the Chicha we have fpoken of; 



they make feveral Sorts of it : The moft common is that 

 of Maiz^ or Indian Corn, which they fteep till the Grain 

 burfts, as if it were to make Beer ; the Beft is made with 

 ~Maiz chew'd by old Women, whofe Spittle caufes a Fer- 

 mentation like that of Leaven in Dough- In CM/, much 

 Is made of Apples, like Cyder : The ftrongeft, ai>d 

 frioO: valued, is that which is made of the Berries, or Seeds 

 of a Tree calKd Ovinian> it is much like that of the juni- 

 per in Bignefs and Tafte ; it gives the Water a Tincture 

 like Burgundy Wine, and a ft rang Tafte, which makes 

 them drunk for a long Time. Their Manner of Eating 

 among themfelves, is to lie along on their Bellies, fup- 

 porting themfelves with their Elbows in a Ring, and to 

 * make their Wives ferve them. The Caciques begin to 

 make ufe of Tables and Benches, in Imitation of the Spa- 

 niards* 



Jie&Colbm Their natural Colour is dark, inclining to Copper-Co- 

 lour, wherein they differ from the Mulatto which pro- 

 ceeds from a Mixture of Whitenefs and Blacknefs : This 

 Colour is general throughout all America^ as well North 

 as South j whence it is to be obferv'd, that it is not the 

 Nature of the Air they breathe there, or of the Food 

 die Inhabitants ufe, but a particular AfFe&ion of the. Blood ; 

 for the Defcendents of the Spaniards^ who are fettled 

 there, and marry'd to Europeans^ and have continued un- 

 mixM with the Chitinians, are of a finer and freflier 

 White and Red, than thofe in Europe^ tho' born in Chili ^ 

 fed almoft after the fame Manner^ and commonly fuckled 

 By the Natives of the Country. 



The Blacks they carry thither from Guinea^ or Angola^ 

 do alfo retain their natural Colour from Father to Son, 

 when they keep to their own Kind* 



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