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Chap. II. 



A defcription "of the 

 Grange Beaft llama in 

 ttru. 





itiEnglijb,Lamb . Teko and $ek,e, z!Brook or Qjvulet. Both Cuftoms and Con- 

 ftitutions have alfo great refemblance. The Mexicans relate, that their Prede* 

 ceflbrs onely follow'd Hunting . that they divided and reckon'd the Time, 

 not by Days, but by Nights, and wafh'd their Children as foon as they were 

 born in cold Water. 



They are fo much inclin'd to Gaming, that they venture their Liberty at it. 1 

 Everyone is fatisfi'd with one Wife, except fome of the "Nobility, which of- 

 tentimes have more. They throw up high Banks in feveral places to damm 

 out the Sea ; believe the Immortality of the Soul } every one eats at a peculiar 

 Table x $ moft of them go naked, onely cover their Pudenda with a Cloth . fome 

 Sacrifice and eat Mans.flefli : all which, according toTacitut, Pliny, Lucan, and 

 other (Roman Writers, was obferv'd by theantient Germans- from whom t'hofc 

 that inhabit between the Norwegian Mountains were extracted. 



Thefe Allegations , to make the Norwegians to be the Parents of the Nor- 

 thern Jmericans, John de Laet thus contradicts : " It no ways follows that one 

 u People take original from the other, becaufe here and there are feveral words 

 €l found, that have the fame fignification and found in divers Countreys . 

 u much lefs when they muft either add, change, or diminifli feveral Letters! 

 « Moreover, there is no fmall miftake in the compared words : for Pagod is 

 ? not us'd all over Jmerica . the Eaft-Indians about the River Indus, call their 

 : Idol-Temples Pagod,ox Pagode • the word Cuaira is no where us'd in Jmerica, 

 " but by the Peruvians, and with them not fignifying a Fan, but a little Oven I 

 £C neither is llama a Lamb, (for before the coming of the Spaniards thither, neil 

 " ther Sheep nor Lambs were ever feen in Peru) but a Wool-bearing Beaft, 

 u thus defcrib'd by Jofepb de Acofla : 



"llama (fays he) a four-footed Creature, furniflies its Mafter with Meat 

 c and Clothing, and fupplies the office of a Beaft for Burthens, and at no 

 " charge for Hay nor Provender, well fatisfi'd with what he finds in the Ways 

 But the. llama's are of two forts, either woolly, or fliort." 



"hair'd: 



« or Mountains. 



