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a pleafant and ftrangc invention , which was, when it 

 pleafcd the priefts of Sathan they went to their Kings, 

 telling them how their gods died for hunger, and that 

 they Ihould remember them. Prefently they prepared 

 themfclves, & advcrtifedone another, that their gods 

 required meate , and therefore they fliould command 

 their people to be ready to goe to the warres^and thus 

 thepeopleaffembled, and the companies appoynted 

 went to field, where they muftred their forces; and all 

 their quarrelland fight was to take one an other for fa- 

 crifice , ftriving on either fide to take what captives 

 they could , fo as in thefe battells they laboured more 

 to take,then to kill, for that all their intention was to 

 take men alwc, to give them to their idolls to eate, for 

 after that maner brought they their lacrificc vn to their 

 gods. And wee muft vnderfiand, that never king was 

 crowned vntill he had fubdewed Tome province>frora 

 the which hec brought a great number of captives for 

 the facrifices of their gods , ib as it was an infinit thing 

 to fee what blood wasfpiltin the honour of the Di- 

 vell. 



How the Indians ?*,'*& weary ^ and could not endure the 

 cruelty ofSAthan. CHAP. 22. 



\I Any of thefe Barbarians were nowe wearied and 

 -iVl tyred with fuch an exceffive cruelty, in (heading 

 fo much blood, and with Ib tedious a tribute, to be al- 

 wayes troubled to get captives, for the feeding of thrir 

 gods, fceming vnto them a matter fupportable^yet left 

 they not to foil owe and execute their rigorous lawcs, 

 for the great awe the minifters of thefe idols kept them 

 in, and the cunning where with they abufed this poorc 



people. 



