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" fumugation. Proud of the colour of their own skin, they 

 " wished to grow black inside, for it was not fitting that the 

 " body of the same person should be internally of a different 

 " colour from what it was outside. One thing seemed clear, 

 " that while the nostrils were filled, the purse was emptied ; 

 " that many splendid patrimonies were puffed away, and 

 " while the nostrils were emitting volumes of smoke, the 

 " kitchen hearths were perfectly cold and vapourless." 



The concluding part of this book is devoted to an exposure 

 of the errors and superstitions of the Koman Catholics aud of 

 the Non-conformists of England, who were then beginning 

 to make some progress under the name of Anabaptists. 



Book IV.' 

 Lavernia* is divided into two parts, viz. Larcinia f and 

 Phenacia.% In the former, the population is very numerous, 

 but without laws or government, so that each individual 

 considers that he is born for himself alone — gets as much 

 as he can by rapine and every other mode, and keeps by 

 force all that he has got. The very children are initiated in 

 the arts of stealing, which, if they do not perform with 

 sufficient audacity and adroitness, they receive a whipping. 

 Growing up, they form themselves into bands, waylay and 

 plunder travellers ; but do not kill them, as the Italian and 

 German banditti are wont to do — but carry them bound 

 before their chief, and compel them to swear fidelity to him. 

 If this oath be violated, if a proper share of pillage be not 

 brought in, or if any traveller be permitted to pass without 

 being waylaid, such remissness subjects the delinquents to 

 the gallows. The shore bordering upon the Straits of 

 Magellan is inhabited by a piratical race, who have there 

 a small port called Portus Bunius.^ In addition to the 



* Laverna was the Goddess of Thieves among the Romans. 



+ The Land of Plunder. } The Land of Imposture. 



§ Dunkirk. 



