After tobacco, indigo came next in value; then capsicum, old clothes, and gunpowder.

The latter article was required for a very innocent purpose: each parish has a public musket, and the gunpowder was wanted for making a noise on their saint or feast days.
The people here live chiefly on shell-fish and potatoes.

At certain seasons they catch also, in "corrales," or hedges under water, many fish which are left on the mud-banks as the tide falls.

They occasionally possess fowls, sheep, goats, pigs, horses, and cattle; the order in which they are here mentioned, expressing their respective numbers.

I never saw anything more obliging and humble than the manners of these people.