to dry those roots that they eat. At dawn they begin to dig and carry firewood and water to their dwellings and to take care of other important needs. Most of these people are big thieves, because even if they are generous to one another, if one turns his head, his own son or father takes what he can. They tell a lot of lies and are drunkards-for this they drink a certain thing. They are so used to running that they can run from morning to night chasing deer without resting or becoming tired. This way they kill many of them, because they pursue them until the deer tire. Sometimes they take them alive. Their lodges are made of mats placed on four arches. They carry them on their backs and move every two or three days to search for food. They plant nothing that would be of any use to them. They are a very merry people; no matter how hungry they may be, they still dance and have their festivities and areítos. The best season for them is when they eat prickly pears, because they are not hungry then and spend all their time dancing. They eat them night and day. During this entire season, they squeeze them, open them and set them out to dry. After they are dried they put them in baskets like figs, and keep them to eat on the way back. They grind the peelings into a powder. Many times while we were with these people, we went three or four days without eating because there was no food. They tried to cheer us up by telling us that we should not be sad, because soon there would be prickly pears. We would eat a lot of them and drink their Juice and our bellies would swell, and we would be very contented and happy and not be hungry. They told us this five or six months before prickly pear season. We had to wait the six months and at the right time, we went to eat prickly pears. We found throughout that land very many mosquitoes-three kinds of them. They are awful and annoying, and for most of the summer