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ii2 NOTES OF A BOTANIST
steeply-sloping bank. One dog, however, turned
round when he reached the top and barked at me.
I fired (with shot) at his legs, intending only to
wound him, but his shattered legs failing him, he
rolled howling down the bank into the river and
was drowned. His body was retained in an eddy a
little lower down, and there it was found by the
women when they went to fetch water at daybreak.
The Governor had told me to shoot those pilfering
dogs, for they were vagabonds who had no owners ;
but this one chanced to belong to an old woman,
who made an outcry about it, and the Governor told
me that if I did not succeed in pacifying her we
might have some difficulty in getting
our com-
plement of mariners, so I sent for her and asked her
how much she wanted for her dog. She said ten
needles !
I was glad to give her an entire packet
of the best I had, with which she went away content,
having therewith enough to buy three dogs
such as
the one she had lost.
Andoas differs from Pinches only in size, as it
contains some twenty houses and about sixty
married couples, but the aspect is equally miserable.
The walls of the houses are of wild cane or palm,
while the church is of bamboo stems opened out
into boards, and in a very dilapidated state. The
church divides the town into two nearly equal
portions or partidos, that to the south or down
the river being inhabited by Indians of the Andoas
nation, and that to the north by Indians of the
Shimigai tribe. ... In external appearance the
two tribes inhabiting the village of Andoas show no
difference. The men are of lowish stature, not
robust, mouth wr ide, but lips not disproportionately