HMorieoftheJndiet. lib. ?* 387 



they every yeare gave one flave to the Priefts 3 that they 

 might' never want the lively image of their idoll. At 

 his fyrft entry into the office, after hee had becne well 

 wailied, they attyredhim with all the ornaments of 

 Ait idoll , giving him the lame name . Hee was that 

 -.whole yeare reverenced and honoured as the idoll it 

 Iclfe, and had alwayes with him twelve men for his 

 guardc,left hccfhouldflic, with which guardethey 

 Buffered him to goe freely and where hee would : and 

 if by chaunce he fled, the chiefeof the guarde was put 

 in his place to reprefent the idoll, and after to be facri* 

 ficed. 



This Indian had the moft honourable lodging in nil 

 the temple,where he did eate and drinckc^and whither 

 all the chiefe Minifters came to ferve and honour him, 

 carrying him meate after the manner of great perfbna- 

 ges . When hee went through the ftreetcs of the citie, 

 hee was well accompanyed with noble men , he carri 

 ed alittleflute in his hand , which fometimes hefbun- 

 dcd, to give them knowledge when he parted : Then 

 prefently the women came forth with their little chil 

 dren in their armes, which they prefented vnto him, 

 faluting him as god. All the reft of the people did the 

 like : at night they put him in a ftrong prifbn or cage, 

 left he fhouH flie 5 and when thefcaft came , they fa- 

 crificed him, as hathbecne (ayde . By thefeandmanie 

 other meanes hath the Divell abufed and entertained 

 thefe poore wretches , and fuch was the multitude of 

 thofe that had beene facrificed by this infernall cruel- 

 ty,asit feems a matter incredible,for they affirme there 

 were fbrne dayes five thou&nd or more,and that there 

 were above twenty thoufand ficrifyced in divctic pla 

 ces* The divcll to intertaine this murther of inen>vfed 



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