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V vessel nllea with water. The infusion yields a yellow- 
ls " liquor, which tastes like milk of almonds. Sometimes 
Vapelon (unrefined sugar) is added. The missionary told us 
that the natives become visibly fatter during the two or three 
Months in which they drink 'this seje, into which they dip 
• 1,1 lr cakes of cassava. The pinches, or Indian jugglers, go 
»to the forests, and sound the loluto (the sacred trumpet) 
«‘aer the seje palm-trees, “ to force the tree,” they say, « to 
J le ld an ample produce the following year.” The people 
Pay for this operation, as the Mongols, the Arabs, and 
ations still nearer to us, pay the chamans, the marabouts, 
M other classes of priests, to drive away the white ants 
ad the locusts by mystic words or prayers, or to procure 
cessation of continued rain, and invert the order of the 
Masons. 
j'j 'Te open air, large earthen vessels, two feet and a half 
• This branch of manufacture is peculiar to the various 
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• °es of the great family of Maypures, and they appear to 
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]fj e „fi>n° w ed it from time immemorial. In every part of 
e e forests, far from any human habitation, on digging the 
fragments of pottery and delf are found. The taste 
l T '''ds kind of manufacture seems to have been common 
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i, 'ctofore to the natives of both North and South America. 
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a ° Ide north of Mexico, on the banks of the Eio Gila, 
i, ' Jtl g the ruins of an Aztec city; in the United States’ 
M tle tumuli of the Miamis ; in Florida, and in every place 
co v ere any traces of ancient civilization are found, the soil 
I] ' ' rs fragments of painted pottery ; and the extreme resem- 
Uat; e ® of tlle 01 ’uaments they display is striking. Savage 
tl l 6 i° ns > and those civilized people* who are condemned by 
thj Political and religious institutions always to imitate 
ffv.„ Se lves, strive, as if by instinct, to perpetuate the same 
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to preserve a peculiar type or style, and to follow the 
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to fs ot L 8 and processes which were employed by their ances- 
In North America, fragments of delf ware have been 
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® Hindoos, the Tibetians, the Chinese, the aucient Egyptians, the 
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d).j v ' . ' ne Peruvians ; with whom the tendency toward civilization in 1 
38 prevented the free development of the faculties of individual:). 
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