Finding that the men were out hunting, and only the women with the children were present, I determined to stop at this place until the following morning, we therefore unloaded the horses and allowed them to go and feed.

A little before sunset, the two men returned to their families.

They were much astonished at seeing us quietly seated before their huts, and approached us with some caution, but soon got reconciled to our presence.

One of them had caught a talpero and a lizard, but the other had not killed any thing, so we gave him a dinner of mutton.

The language of these people was a mixture between that of the river and hill tribes; but from what reason I am unable to say, although we understood their answers to general questions, we could not gather any lengthened information from them.