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Falaife y Chaplain of S. Mala, who has gatherM all the 

 Earthen and Silver Veffels, Indian Pi&ures, and other Cu- 

 riofities he could, of that Country, where he has been; 

 That Veffel confifts of two Bottles join'd together, each 

 about fix Inches high, having a Hole of Communication 

 at the Bottom : The one of them is open, and the other 

 has on its Orifice a little Animal, like a Monkey, eating a 

 Cod of fome Sort ; under which is a Hole, which makes 

 a whittling when Water is pour'd out at the Mouth of the 

 other Bottle, or when that within it is butlhaken, becaufe 

 the Air, being prefs'd along the Surface of both Bottles, is 

 forced out at that little Hole in a violent Manner ; whence 

 I have concluded, that it might be one of their Inftru- 

 ments, fince the Smalnefs and Shape of that Veffel did not 

 make it commodious, or large enough to contain Liquors, 

 to drink. That Animal may be a Sort of Monkey they 

 call Ccrachupa, whofe Tail is naked, the Teeth all of a 

 Piece, without any Divifion, and two Skins covering its 

 Stomach and Belly, like a Veft, into which they put their 

 young when they run away. There are none of them at 

 the Coaft ; they are common along the River Mijfijfipi, 

 where they are call'd Wild Rats. 

 ihbMms. The Number of the Inhabitants of that great Empire of 

 Peru, which Hiftorians reprefent by Millions, is confide- 

 ntly dimintfh'd fince the Conqueft by the Spaniards : The 

 Work at the Mines has* contributed much towards it, efpe- 

 cially thofe of Guancavelica, becaufe, when they have been 

 there a while, the Quickfilver does fo penetrate into them, 

 that moft of them have a Quaking, and die ftupid. 



The Cruelties of the Corregidores and Curates have alfo 

 obliged many to go and join the Neighbouring Indian Na- 

 tions that are not conquer'd, not being any longer able to 

 endure the Tyrannical Dominion of the Spaniards. 



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