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who fear each other, and having no proteftion from laws, trufl 

 to the force of arms alone for their fafety. In a word, they live 

 in perpetual diftrult and dread of one another. Nevcrthe- 

 lefs, fays our traveller, the arts have reduced this favage 

 nation, without foftening their ferocious manners. Culumba 

 was the nnme of one of the largell villages polfefled by this 

 favage tribe ; and on the d;iy of hisarrival the people had a 

 grand fellival, uhich they celebrated with divers fpedlacles. 

 Part of thefe fpeclacles was the exhibition of a tragedy, and 

 this was preceded by a cock-light, and by other games, at 

 which large funis were won and loll. Two leagues from 

 Columba, in a village of lefs extent, was a rivulet, whofc 

 water was hot and boiling ; and yet on the banks of this 

 rivulet were vigorous Ihrubs ; one of thefe fhrubs was an 

 " agnus callus," and the two ethers "afpalatus." The 

 Spaiiifh governor, conceiving that thefe waters poITefs fome 

 good qualities, has conllriifted near them feveral baths. 

 Fi:h were found fwimming in this water, the heat of wliich 

 was fo great, that our author could Hpt touch it. In tlie 

 interior of the country, he fays, there are many nations, 

 which the Spaniards have in vain endeavoured to fubdue. No 

 force is fiifficient to fubjugate them ; but they fly to a dif- 

 tant afylum, and there it is faid they fvvear an implacable 

 hatred againft the opprelfors of their country, meditating 

 and preparing means of venjjeance. From thence they ifTue 

 in meaa boats ; but fortified by courage, and animated 

 by hatred, they dare to approach the gates of the capital. 

 Their incurhons are a fucceflion of pillages, murders, ra- 

 vages, and rapes. On leaving the village, traverfed by the 

 rivulet of hot water, our author took an eafterly route, and 

 after tiiree hours' journey, found himfelf in an immenfe 

 plain, which was watered and rendered fertile by a rivulat 

 of clear, hght, and wholefome water, that defcended from 

 the top of a neighbouring mountai;;. Larsje meadows 

 were enamelled with flowers, whofe variety of colour and 

 perfume deligiued eqnally the fight and the fmell. The 

 inhabitants were friendly and hofpitable. 



In fome provinces of this illand there are Pintadoes, that 

 is, painted negroes, whi^fe perfons are tall, llraight, llrung, 

 and active, and difpofition excellent ; and to the blacks, 

 fuch as we have defcribed, who live in the mountains and 

 thick woods, the Spauiards have given the name of Negril- 

 loes ; they are a rude ar.d barbarous people. In the moun- 

 tains, near fprings, and in caves plealantly fituated, there is 

 a nation called the liayas, or Tinghianos, who, as fome 

 fuppofe, are defcended from the Japaiiefe, as free as the Ne- 

 grilloes, but differing from them in difpofition and charac- 

 ter ; for they are not only very brave, but very courteous 

 and humane. I'his ifland is divided into provinces, mod 

 of which are under thf junfdiction of the Spaniards. The 

 principal are the Balayan, in which are 2500 tributary In- 

 dians ; in that of Camarinas is th? city of New Caceres, the 

 fee of a bifliop. Paracale contains 7000 Indians, who pay 

 tribute to Spain ; ti\is province abounds in mines of gold 

 and other morals, and of valuable load-llones. In Cagayan 

 are 9000 tributaries ; but the richefl and molt populous pro- 

 vince is faid to be that of lilocos, whofe coail extends up- 

 wards of 90 miles. There are feveral others, fuch as Pan- 

 gafian, Bahi, lialacan, &c. N. ht, 12° 48' to iS^ 48'. 

 E. long. 120" 6' to 124 10'. See M.VKILLA. 



LUCOTT.A., a fmal ifland in the Ealt Indian fea, near 

 the W. coaft of Sumatra. N, lat. i 43'. E. long. 97 



LUCRETIA, in Biography, a dillingiifhed Roman 

 Jady, was the wife of Codaiinus, a relation cf Tarqui-:, 

 king of Rome. Her accon:pliihmenls proved fatal to her ; 



and thepraifes whicha numberof young nobles at" A rdea, who 

 were attached to the Roman army, among whom were Colla- 

 tinus and the fons of Tarquin, bellowed upon the domeftic 

 virtues of their wives at home was, in truth, productive of 

 a revolution in the Hate. While each was waim with wine, 

 it was agreed that they (hoiild inllantly take their horfe?, and 

 go to Rome to afcertain the fadl how the wife of each was 

 employed. The hdies of the Tarquins were found palling 

 the night with their friends and relatives at a banquet, but 

 Lucretia v.'as employed in the n.idll of her female fervants, 

 and Iharing their domellic labours. The beauty and inno- 

 cence of Lucreti.1, who received her huftand and the young 

 princes with the ir.oil e.^quiiite female grace, made fuch an 

 imprtfTion upon Stxtus Tarquinius, th«it he refolved, at 

 whatever expence, to gratify the guilty and infamous paflion 

 whieli he had conceived. In a few days after, he left the 

 camp in fecreey, and came to the houfe of Lucrelia, who 

 entertained and lodged him with a noble and unfufpedling 

 hufpitality ; but, in return f r her kindnefs, in the dead of 

 the night he introduced himfelf to the virtuous lady, who re- 

 futed to his intreatie.';, what her fear and (liatre granted to 

 his favage threats. She fubraitted to the cruel wretch, 

 whom he not only, with a drawn fword, threatened to mur- 

 der, but to blall alfo her reputation, by kdling one of her 

 flaves, and putting him in her bed, that an apparent criminal 

 connexion might feera to have met with its defervcd punifli- 

 ment. Tarquin left her in triunqih, but his exultations were 

 (h'ort-livcd ; flie, who had loil her honour, had nothing left 

 in life of any value : (lie alfembled, in the morning, her huf- 

 band, her father, and nearell relatives, revealed to them the 

 indignities (he had fuffered, entreating them to avenge her 

 wrongs, at the fame time declaring that (lie was refolved to 

 expiate her own fault by a voluntary death. To their in- 

 treaties, their arguments, and remonftrances, (he turned a 

 deaf ear, and while tliey were inventing new reafons why die 

 ought to live to bear tellimony againll the monller, flie drew 

 a dagger that fhehad concealed for the purpjie, and plunged 

 it into her heart. Hiftorians have given the accounts fome- 

 what difierent ; our account is that of Livy, but all agree 

 that the melancholy cataftrophe was the inim.ediate caule of 

 the expulfion of the Tarquins, and the cliange of the Roman 

 form of government. 



LUCRETIUS, Titus Carus, a celebrated Roman 

 poet and phiiofopher, born about the year 96 B.C., was 

 fent at an early age to Athens, where he is iaid to have llu- 

 died under Ztno and Plixdrus. Here he imbibed the phi- 

 lulophical tenets of Epicurus and Empedocles, which, at 

 that period, prevailed at the great feat of Greek learning : 

 thefe and otlier doctrines, popular among the literati, he af- 

 terwards explained and elucidated in his celebrated work, en- 

 titled " De Rerum Natura ;'* it contains, in faCi, the firll 

 complete and accurate ilalement of the Epicurean philofo- 

 phy in the Latin language. In this poem the writer lias 

 controverted all the popular notions of healhenifm, and even 

 thofe points which are fundamental in every fyilem of reli- 

 gious faith, the exiftence of a firfl tanfe, by whofe power 

 all things were and are created, and by whofe providence 

 they are fupportcd and governed. Neverthelefs, the mallerly 

 genius and n affcfted elegance of the poet are every whsre 

 confpicuous ; his huiguage and verfification iometimcs p.'.r- 

 take of ;he rudenefi of an early period of literature, and in 

 the argumentative parts uf his work, the poet is frequently 

 di.Hlcuit to be underllood ; but where tl-.e fubjccl admits of 

 elevated feaiimeiU and deieriptive beauty, no Roman poet 

 has taken a loftier (light, or exhibited more fpirit and fubii- 

 mity ; the tame aiiimated Ibain is fupportcd almoll through- 

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