It is, to all appearance, a courageous and sociable people, but without care for the ills of their neighbours; for they saw some fighting with us without coming to help them.
The houses are of wood, covered with palm-leaves, with two sloping sides to the roof, and with a certain kind of outhouse, where they keep their food.

All their things are kept very clean.
They also have flower-pots with small trees of an unknown kind.

The leaves are very soft, and of a yellow-reddish colour.
The bread they use is mainly of roots, whose young shoots climb on poles, which are put near them for that purpose.* The rind is grey, the pulp murrey colour, yellow, or reddish; some much larger than others.

There are some a yard and a half in thickness, also two kinds; one almost round, and the size of two fists, more or less.

Their taste resembles the potatoes of Peru.