The greatest difficulty is in making them observe the ceremonies of marriage.

The wild Indians take as many wives as they can support, and a cacique will sometimes have more than ten: on entering his house, the number may be told by that of the separate fires.

Each wife lives a week in turn with the cacique; but all are employed in weaving ponchos, etc., for his profit.

To be the wife of a cacique is an honour much sought after by the Indian women.
The men of all these tribes wear a coarse woolen poncho: those south of Valdivia wear short trousers, and those north of it a petticoat, like the chilipa of the Gauchos.

All have their long hair bound by a scarlet fillet, but with no other covering on their heads.