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and
they
take
of
the
Leves
of
the
Coca,
and
they
chawe
them
in
their
Mouthes,
and,
as
they
go
chavvyng,
they
goe
minghng
with
it
of
that
ponder
made
of
the
shelles
in
such
sorte,
that
they
make
it
like
to
a
Paste
taking
lesse
of the
Ponder
then
of
the
Hearbe,
and
of
this
Paste
they
make
certaine
small
Bawles'rounde,
and
they
put
them
to
drie,
and
when
they
will
use
of
them,
they
take
a
little
Ball
in
their
niouthe,
and
they
chawe
hym
;
passing
hym
from
one
pajte
to
another,
procuring
to
conserue
him
all
that
they
can,
and
that
beyng
doen,
they
doe
retaurne
to
take
another,
and
so
they
goe,
using
of
it
all
the
tyme
that
they
have
neede,
whiche
is
when
they
travaill
by
the
waie,
and
especially
if
it
be
by
waies
where
is
no
meate,
or
lacke
of
water.
For
the
use
of
these
little
Bawles
doe
take
the
hunger
and
thurste
from
them,
and
they
say
that
they
dooe
receive
substaunce,
as
though
that
they
did
eate.
At
other
times
thei
use
of
them
for
their
pleasure,
although
that
they
labour
not
by
the
waie,
and
thei
do
use
the
same
Coca
alone,
chawing
it
and
bringing
it
in
their
mouthes,
from
one
side
to
another,
untill
there
be
no
vertue
remainyng
in
it,
and
then
they
take
another."
Garcia
Lasso
de
la
Vega,
who
wrote
his
Com^
mentarios
Reales
in
1609,
gives
a
fine
description
of
Cuca
—
which
I
take
from
his
translator,
Sir
Paul
Rycaut.
^'
Of
the
pretious
Leafe
called
Cuca."
**
But
above
all
we
must
not
omit
to
discourse
at
large
of
the
Herb
which
the
Indians
call
Cuca,
and