Excerpt from A Voyage to South America, Vol. 1: Describing at Large the Spanish Cities, Towns, Provinces, &C., On That Extensive Continent, Undertaken, by Command of the King of Spain, by Don George Juan, and Don Antonio De Ulloa, Captains of the Spanish Navy, Fellows of the Royal Society of London

In respect to the civil history, the world in general was yet more in the dark, than as to the natural, knowing much less of theinhabitants than of the com modities of these countries, and in this respect, our authors have been as candid, as circumstantial, and as copious, as in the other. They not only acquaint us with the distribution and disposition of the Spanish governments, with the nature, extent, and Subordina tion of those who preside in them but have also given us a regular plan of their administration, and of the order and method in which justice is dispensed, and the civil policy maintained, the domestic oeconomy of the Spaniards, their customs, manner of living, their way of treating the Indians, both subjects and savages, are stated with the same freedom and preci sion. In like manner they give us a succinct account of the Creoles. That is, such as are descended from the Spaniards, and have been longer or later settled in the Indies, with whatever is peculiar in respect to the ge nius, humour, virtues, and vices of these people, and moreespeeially the points in which they differ from the native Spaniards. The state and condition of the Indians who live in subjection to the Spaniards, their tempers, employments, good and ill qualities, labours and diversions. The habitations of the free Indians, their customs, dress, manner of Spending their lives, exercises, talents, religion, and method of preserving the remembrance of past transactions, as also the condition of the Negroes and Mulattoes, whether in the capacity of slaves, domestic servants, or in pos session of their freedom, with whatever differences occur in the state of any of these people in different provinces.

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