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yet they know how to diffemble, and trade with them for 

 Beeves, Goats and Mules, receive them in their Houfes, 

 and entertain them as Friends. 

 Their Trade. A French Man, who had gone with a Spaniard to trade 

 among the Pudchei, an Indian Nation hitherto not fubdu- 

 ed, and inhabiting the Ridge of Mountains, call'd La Cor- 

 , dillera, told me how they managed it. They go direftly 

 to the Cacique, or Lord of the Place, and appear before 

 him without fpeaking a Word $ then he breaking Silence, 

 fays to the Merchant, Are you come ? Then he anfwering, / 

 a?n come. What have you brought ?ne? replies the Cacique* 

 I bring you, rejoins the Spaniard, fomeJvine, (a neceflary 

 Article) and fuch a Thing - y whereupon the Cacique fails 

 not to fay. Ton are welcome. He appoints him a Lodging, 

 near his own Cottage, where his Wives and Children bid- 

 ding him welcome, each of them alfo demand a Prelent, 

 which he gives, tho* never fo fmall. At the fame time the 

 Cacique, with the Horn -Trumpet, before fpoken of, 

 , gives Notice to his fcatterM Subjects of the Arrival of a 

 Merchant, with whom they may trade : They come and 

 fee the Commodities, which are Knives, Axes,, Combs, 

 Needles, Thread, Looking-glalfes, Ribbons, &c The 

 beft of all would be Wine, were it not dangerous to fup- 

 ply them wherewith to make themfelves drunk ; for then 

 they are not fafe among them, becaufe they are apt to kill 

 one another. When they have agreed upon the Barter, 

 they carry the Things home without paying; fo that the 

 Merchant delivers all without knowing to whom, or fee- 

 ing any of his Debtors. In fliort, when he defigns to go 

 away, the Cacique orders Payment, by founding the Horn 

 again: Then every Man honeftly brings the Cattle he 

 owes i and becaufe thofe are all wild Beafts, as Mules, 

 Goats, and efpecially Oxen and Cows, he commands a 

 fuffictent Number of Men to conduct them to the Spanijh 

 Frontiers. By what has been laid, may be obferv'd, that 

 as iwch Civility and Honefty is to be found among thofe 



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