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ed in battle, in order, as they fay, to dry up their 

 tears. The chief keeps nothing for himfelf, ex- 

 cept the honour of being the fupport of the na- 

 tion. 



Intereft, which is the caufe of fo many crimes 

 in the old world, is unknown in the new world ; 

 it is not without reafon that the Cuba Indians 

 faid. Gold is the true God of the Spaniards, and 

 we muft give it them in order to have peace. In 

 America we do not fee any of thofe men, whom 

 we call favages^ kill their brothers in cool blood, 

 or make ufe of falfe witnefTes to undo them, in 

 order to get their eftates. ^ Thofe intrigues are 

 unknown there, which are made ufe of to ac- 

 quire riches, by means unworthy of a human 

 being. No wife poifons her hufband there, as 

 is done in Europe, in order to marry again. 

 There are no women lafcivious or audacious 

 enough publicly to declare the impotence of 

 their hufbands, as the European women do; 

 nor does any Cacique's wife get her hufband 

 flrangled, as that Neapolitan princefs did with 

 Jier's, becaufe he would not fatisfy her brutal 

 pafTion •, no girls there dedroy their own oiF- 

 fpring, in order to appear chafte in the eyes of 

 men. The Indian women abhor the Chriflian 

 girls who fall into that cafe-, they oppofe the 

 y ^ fierce f^ 



