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#7/0 Village. The Vale of H/fo, upon coming Into the Road, looks 

 jpnly like a narrow Gut, which appears opening by De- 

 grees, as you draw near, till the Church appears, and 

 about fifty Cottages made of the Branches of Trees, fcat- 

 ter'd up and down near the Rivulet, which runs winding 

 along the Middle of the Vale : That is all the Village of 

 Wlo ; moft of it is built and inhabited by French, It is 

 certainly too great an Honour to call it a little Town, as- 

 Dampier does. 



Watering- That Rivulet, where Ships water, is fomctimes fubje<St 



place.. to be dried up, during the fix Months that the Sun is to 

 the Southward, when the Winter has not prov'd rainy on 

 the high Mountains. They were fenfible of that Drought 

 in the Year 1713, when they were fain to bury Casks in 

 the Sand, to receive what drained from the Land, whence 

 a Water flows, which is naught and unwholfome. The 

 great Difeafes, which that Year carry'd off the one half of 

 the Crews of the French Ships that happen'd to be there, 

 were afcribed to it ; but it was a Sort of Plague, which 

 was felt 18 Leagues from thence, at Moquegua, and even 

 as far as Arequipa, which is 40 Leagues diftant. 



Wooding. The Conveniency of Wooding is better there than the 

 Watering, becaufe the Vale is cover'd with Trees j but the 

 great Quantity the French have fell'd within 14 Years paflr^ 

 has removed it a League from the Sea. Befides the Wood 

 for Fewel, that Vale is in feveral Places planted with fine 

 Rows of Olive-trees, which afford the beft Oil in Peru 



fruit- trees as abunc *anee of Fruit-trees, as Orange, Lemon, Fig^ 

 Guayava, Banana and Lucumo-trees, of which Mention 

 has been made before. There is alfo of that Sort of pruit 

 call'd Paltas in Peru, and Avocats in. the French Caribbee 

 Iflands y they are like a large Pear, and contain a round 

 Kernel, fomewhat pointed, of the Confidence and Bulk 

 of a Chefnut, but of no other Ufe than a Musk Colour 

 Dye : The Subftance that inclofes it is greenilh, and al- 

 moft as foft as Butter, and has fomething in it of that 



