thcrs , and in fome places there were tied many fmall 

 birdsjconntes, and other tame beafts . After dinner all 

 the people aflembled in this place, and the players pre- 

 fcntedthemfelveSj and played comedies , fome coun 

 terfeit the deafe, and the rheumatike , others the lame, 

 fome the blinde, and without handcs , which came to 

 feeke for cure of the idoll : the deafe anfwered confu- 

 fedly , the rheumatike did cough, the lame halted, tel 

 ling their miferies and griefes , wherewith they made 

 the people to laugh 5 others came foorth in the forme 

 of little beafts, fome were attired like fnailes 5 others like 

 toades, and fome like lizardes: then meeting together, 

 they tolde their offices, and every one retyring to his 

 place,they founded on fmall flutes, which was pleafant 

 toheare. They likewife counterfeited butterflies and 

 fmall birdes of divcrfe colours , and the children of the 

 Temple reprefented thefe formes , then they went in- 

 to a little forreft planted there for the nonce,where the 

 Prieftesof the Temple drew them foorth with inftru- 

 ments of muficke . In the meane time they vfed many 

 pleafant fpeeches, fome in propounding, others in de- 

 fending,wherewith the afliftants were pleafantly inter- 

 tained. This doone, they made a maske or mummerie 

 with all thcfe perfonages , and fo the feaft ended : the 

 which were vfually doonein their principall feafts. 



What profit may be drawne out of thu difiourfeofthc 

 > Indians fiiperftiuons. CHAP 31. 



THis may fuffice to vnderftand the care and paine 

 thelndians tooke to ferveand honour their Idolls, 

 or rather the divell : for it were an infinite matter , and 

 of fmall profit, to report every thing that hath pailtd, 



for 



