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and lade up water with both their handes, and turne 

 themselves about, and then they drinke a litle of the 

 water three times, and so goe to their gods which stand 

 in those houses. Some of them will wash a place which 

 is their length, and then will pray upon the earth with 

 their armes and legs at length out, and will rise up 

 and lie downe, and kisse the ground twentie or thirtie 

 times, but they will not stirre their right foote. And 

 some of them will make their ceremonies with fifteene 

 or sixteene pots litle and great, and ring a litle bel 

 when they make their mixtures tenne or twelve times : 

 and they make a circle of water round about their 

 pots and pray, and divers sit by them, and one that 

 reacheth them their pots : and they say divers things 

 over their pots many times, and when they have done, 

 they goe to their gods, and strowe their sacrifices which 

 they thinke are very holy, and m^arke many of them 

 which sit by, in the foreheads, which they take as a 

 great gift. There come fiftie and sometime an hundred 

 together, to wash them in this well, and to offer to 

 these idols. 



They have in some of these houses their idoles stand- 

 ing, and one sitteth by them in warme weather with a 

 fanne to blowe winde upon them. And when they see 

 any company comming, they ring a litle bell which 

 hangeth by them, and many give them their almes, but 

 especially those which come out of the countrey. 

 Many of them are blacke and have clawes of brasse 

 with long nayles, and some ride upon peacockes and 

 other foules which be evill favoured, with long haukes 

 bils, and some like one thing and some another, but 

 none with a good face. Among the rest there is one 

 which they make great account of: for they say hee giveth 

 them all things both foode and apparell, and one sitteth 

 alwayes by him with a fanne to make wind towards him. 

 Here some bee burned to ashes, some scorched in the 

 fire and throwen into the water, and dogges and foxes 

 doe presently eate them. The wives here doe burne 



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