1669] of the Island Dauphine, &c. u 
heated with Eau-de-Vie they jump’d recklessly into their 
canoe & overturn’d it & tumbled into the sea. But 
without astonishment they swam back to it, re-enter’d 
therein, & went off. 
The next day, the 8 th, we lower’d our boat, to go on 
shore to seek for wood & water. We were at least 20 
persons who landed from this boat. On landing from 
which we found the Alquierre with his Court, compos’d The Ai- 
r r r . 0 quierre is 
01 fifteen or twenty men armed with bows, arrows, & the Gover- 
sagayes. We were with this Company at the Alquierre’s ^mfgl^ 
village, where I thought I was entering a labyrinth 
because of the number of turns & twists which we made 
before entering into his cottage, the path being en¬ 
closed with hurdles which shut it in in the form of walls. 
Having entered into this cottage I remarked its con- Cottages . 
struction, which was only of reeds or canes strongly 
press’d & interlac’d together, the whole made round like 
a Dome, measuring fifteen or sixteen feet across & 
from seven to eight high, neatly proportion’d. ’Tis 
thus they construct the buildings of this place. The 
Alquierre did the honours of his house, making them 
bring us clothes & mats, which he had plac’d on the 
ground for us to sit upon : then they brought some Palm 
Wine. Having drank of it we spoke of business; he 
ask’d us if we came to trade, wishing that in this case we 
should pay him his dues ; but we repli’d to him that we 
should pass on, only needing a little water & some 
wood, & for that they would give him a bottle of Eau- 
de-Vie & a little iron : but the Alquierre insisting on 
having more, one of our people told him that wood & 
water were things that God gave, & cost him nothing, & 
that ’twas not just to sell them. On this proposition, the 
horse of the Alquierre, which was fasten’d close to the 
hut, neigh’d & paw’d with its feet, upon which the Inter¬ 
preter or Tongue-Captain of the Alquierre, interpreting 
