Ui/lork of the Indie!, lib.?* 



which aretheir farmes , which they did after feedc 

 time,that they might not ceafe running, but alwaies 

 water their groundes. The forcercrs did coniure, to 

 know what time the facrifices fliould be made, which 

 being ended 5 they did gather of the contribution of 

 the people, what fliould be facrificed and delivered 

 them to fuch as had the charge of thefe facrifices.They 

 made them in the beginning of winter, at fuch time 

 as thefountaines , fprings, and rivers, did incrcafeby. 

 the moiftures of the weather, which they did attri 

 bute to their focrifices. They did not facrifice to the 

 foumainesand fprings of thedcfarts. To this day con- 

 tinues the refpeft they had to fountaines , fprings, 

 pooks,brookes,or rivers, which paffe by their Citties 

 or Chacras, even vn to the fountaines and rivers of the 

 cjefarts. They have afpeciall regard and reverence to 

 the meeting of two rivers , and there they wafli them- 

 felves for their health, anointing themfelves firflwi.th 

 the flower ofMays&r fome other things, adding there- 

 vnto divers ceremonies , the which they do likewifc 

 in their bathes. 







Of the Sacrifices they made $f men. 

 CHAP. 1-9. 



THemoftpittifulIdifafterof thispoore people, is 

 their flavery vnto the Devill, faerificing men vnto 

 him, which are the Images of God . In many nations 

 they had vfed to kill (to accompany the dead, as hath 

 beene declared) fuch perfons as had been agreeable vn 

 to him , and whomethey imagined might beftfervc 

 him in the other world. Bcfides this,they vfcd in Peru, 

 to facrifice yong children of foure or fix yeares old vn* 



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