Their war- 

 like Conful- 

 taijons. 







Their En- 

 miry to the 

 SpMftiatJ. 



Their Mar- 

 riages. 



3 TU . " *ME<KICA. Chap. XVIII 



Their warlike Confultations were no lefs obfervable, for the Ouboutou ap' 

 pomteda Day, on which the Iflanders met at a Feaft in iLcarbet, whither rhey' 



Zr 8y ?r a u atthe timC apP ° inted > and havi "g E " -d Drunk, .3 

 Dane d a confiderable time, an antient Woman with tears in her Eyes and mourn 



ul Countenance entered the ton, and defir'd Audience , which belggrantTh' 



a. 22 on ; Ien \ ft ; be r to rclate thc Dama §« whkh *■«*» " ••«•« tim ; 



he^,, drf to the £»**»«, and that in the laft Engagement fo many™ 

 Lant Men were flam, and afterwards devoured by them , therefore it wou d Ve 

 flume not to take Revenge 5 which being feconded by th Ouhutu put Valor into 

 the Hearts of all that wereprefent: Whereupon the following' Hul^Z 

 were fent to the other Iflands to acquaint them with their Intentions that they 

 ni.ght prepare their Clubs, makt (harp and poyfon their Arrow Srit £ 

 Bowes prepare Provifions, and fit out their cLl : They poyfon d' th Arrows 

 wuh the ju.ee of Maru^UoS, which made the leaft Wo^mortal Thet To 

 vifion. and Arms chey hud up in their Canoos, fo to preferye their «wJ£ w fc ch 

 are Boats that can carry fifty Men,, if they fhould chance to oyer-fet, wh ch of n 

 happen d, though they were foon turn'd up again. They went from ZM 7 

 another.whe^ 



the Fleet wuh new Affiftants , with which approaching the Main, they hrdh^ 



T°Z 7l\ ^ E Z niag > 2nd d " Vin g f ° Ur Stak « ™° ** Gr^nd u der th 

 and A "fi, ? Cir " amm ° cks to thc f >™> » which they flept till Mid.nLhc 

 and then fell on then: Enemies, but if difcoyer'd by them, they retreated to he r' 

 Boats and rcturn'd home ; but if they were not difcoyer'd, the/fel 2 [Z the Hu 

 of the Jro^s who refifting, they mot Arrows with bu'rning Co Z in to th"m 



where* t ^ r °n fr f ° rC ' d thc Am '& es to vcnturc * B *» eI » *« ^S 



where having fpent al the.r Arrows, they Engag'd one another with great Clubs' 

 B i: T ^ c 0nC U ° Wth u Cy ^"^ ^™ -Legs, or knockout he* 

 Pa y man, 1 T ^ '° ^ ^"^ Aea tho * th " "»»»'» of he 



Tea/s ° th ,1 ^P5 1 "/ u° ft h ° Wling for th ° fc th " were kill ' d - *»" »*« h 

 Tears wuh the Blood of the.r flain Friends, whom not without the created dana 



they fetch d from amongft their Enemies, and carried them aboar £hcir Boats 



SS V,a ° r \; hc y T C W ° nt t0 infdt OV " their P"foner w ta h ; 

 bmer Taunts .maginable, and then taking advantage of thofe (harp Upbra din, 

 wh.ch theu cruel ufage extorted from them, to put them to death wL Toft thT 

 -ane Tortures and then to Feaft themfelyes upon their mang" d Bodl a U 

 c aiming a R.ght to their feyeral Prifoners, as to fo many Beafts aVpointed o the 

 Slaughter , But o late Ages they haye contented themfelyes to difpafchlem f P ee 

 d,ly wuh the.r Clubs, and fo affign them to their Shambles. P P 



of A ^ iT a& " had b " n f ° rmerly ' f ° the S ? mkrds at lc "gth became the Obieft 



It S:; rrf* Hatrcdj infomuch tha < ° ft -^« ^XSX 

 fir; ir.t m I;ts 



/ "ignc j ior tne Laribbeeans not regardinc their Guns mefVrl n«^^ .u 



h=^' f* G ° ,eraOB Were '" '"«"' "«»' J i"g »i. nLb/r of 



n»Snttak e t, sN ««, whom he no foonrr hid earned to Ms Houfe, but the Ma,. 



nage 



S c 



