the South-Sea. Xfft 



from the Place where it now {lands. What remains of 

 the Town is not fubjed to fuch Accidents, becaufe it is 

 feated on a little riling Ground, at the Foot of the Head- 

 land : Moft of the Houfes are built with nothing but 

 Fafcines, of a Sort of Flags or Sedge, cixll'dTbtora, bound 

 together, ftanding end-ways with Leather, Thongs and 

 Canes croffing them ; or elfe they are made of Canes fet 

 upright, and the Intervals fill'd up with Earth. The Ufe of 

 unburnt Bricks is referv'dfor the ftatelieft Houfes, and for 

 Churches : No Rain ever falling there, they are coverM 

 with nothing but Mats, which makes the Houfes look as 

 if they were Ruins, when beheld from without. 



The Parifll Church is handfome enough, being of the Chmchtt, 

 Invocation of S. Mark: There is a Monaftery of Teven or 

 eight Mercenarians, an Hofpital of the Brothers of S. John 

 oj' God y and a Monaftery of Franciftans, who were com- 

 ing to fettle in the Town, after having deftroy'd the Houfe 

 they had half a Quarter of a League from it, tho 1 in the 

 pleafantcft Part of the Vale, and near the Sea. 



The Vale of Arica is about a League wide next the Sea ; Arica P*ik 

 all a barren Country, except the Place where the old Town 

 ftood,\which is divided into little Meadows of Clover- 

 grafs, fome Spots of Sugar-canes, with Olive and Cotton- 

 trees intermix'd, and Marfhes full of the Sedge, ufed as 

 above to build Houfes: It is thruft in to the Eaft ward, 

 growing narrower that Way. A League up is the Village 

 of S. Michael de Sapa, where they begin to cultivate the 

 Agi, that is, Guinea Pepper, which is fown throughout ^gi Guinea 

 all the reft of the Vale 5 and there are feveral fcatter'd r ^m 

 Farms, which tutve no other Produ&but that Pepper. In 

 that little Space of the Vale, which is very narrow, and 

 not above fix Leagues long, they fell yearly of it to the 

 Value of above 80000 Crowns. 



The Spaniards of Pern are fo generally addified to that Tra ^ , ^ 

 Sort of Spice, that they can drefs no Meat without it, tho' r i ca ,j 

 fo very hot and biting, that there is no enduringof it, un- 

 lets well ufed to it 5 and as it cannot grow on the Puna, 



that 



