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NOTES OF A BOTANIST 
CHAP, 
Steeply-sloping bank. One dog, however, turned 
round when he reached the top and barked at me. 
I fired (with shot) at his legs, intending only to 
wound him, but his shattered legs failing him, he 
rolled howling down the bank into the river and 
was drowned. His body was retained in an eddy a 
little lower down, and there it was found by the 
women when they went to fetch water at daybreak. 
The Governor had told me to shoot those pilfering 
dogs, for they were vagabonds who had no owners ; 
but this one chanced to belong to an old woman, 
who made an outcry about it, and the Governor told 
me that if I did not succeed in pacifying her we 
might have some difficulty in getting our com- 
plement of mariners, so I sent for her and asked her 
how much she wanted for her dog. She said ten 
needles ! I was glad to give her an entire packet 
of the best I had, with which she went away content, 
having therewith enough to buy three dogs such as 
the one she had lost. 
Andoas differs from Pinches only in size, as it 
contains some twenty houses and about sixty 
married couples, but the aspect is equally miserable. 
The walls of the houses are of wild cane or palm, 
while the church is of bamboo stems opened out 
into boards, and in a very dilapidated state. The 
church divides the town into two nearly equal 
portions or partidos, that to the south or down 
the river being inhabited by Indians of the Andoas 
nation, and that to the north by Indians of the 
Shimigai tribe. ... In external appearance the 
two tribes inhabiting the village of Andoas show no 
difference. The men are of lowish stature, not 
robust, mouth wide, but lips not disproportionately 
