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80 80 HOW NATIVE WOMEN DRESS. arrow, which would be a good shot for a musket. These people are very intelligent; the women are well made and modest. They cover their whole body. They wear shoes and buskins made of tanned skin. The women wear cloaks over their small petticoats, with sleeves gatherd up at the shoulders, aJl of skin, and some wear something like little sanbenitos with a fringe, which reached half way down the thigh and over the petticoat." "It was estimted that during this fortnight they IriUed 500 buUs. The number of these that were there without any cows was something incredible. Many fellows were lost at that time who went out hunting and did not get back to the army for two or three days, wandering about the country as if they were crazy, in one direction or another, not knowing how to get back where they started from, although this ravine extended in either direction so that they could find it. Every night they took account of who was missing, fired guns and blew trumpets and beat drums and built great fires, but yet some of them went off so far and wanderd about so much that aU this did not give them any help, although it helped others. The only way was to go back where they had killed an animal and start from. there in one direction and another untU they struck the ravine or fell in with somebody who could put them on the right road. It is worth noting that the country there is so level that at midday, after one has wandered about in one direction and another in pursuit of game, the only thing to do is to stay near the game quietly until sunset, so as to see where the sun goes down, and