Chap. VII. AMERICA. w 



the ftrongeft along the Sea-Coaft, who when firft they began to fettle on ^raftle, 

 found great refiftance j and had not the Natives been at Wars amongft thcmfelves > 

 they could never have got io much footing, but now they are fufficiently Matters 5 

 for they have either (lain all the old Inhabitants, or driven them up into the Inland : 

 However, the Braftlians are fo valiant-, that they will Encounter a great Army, be- 

 ing brought up in the Wars from their Cradle. When they Engage one with an- 

 other they {hoot their Arrows exceeding thick, Hooting, Hollowing, and Leaping 

 from one fide to the other to (hun the Arrows with a wonderful dexterity : The 

 Conquerors fpare none, but kill all, and Feaft on the (lain Bodies $ but fome they 

 hale away Prifoners with a Rope about their Necks, to each of whom they alloc 

 a young Maid, who cherifhes and fattens them up for five Moneths, at the end of 

 which they make a great Feaft,and drink to a pitch beyond Senie or Reafon, having 

 firft fill'd their Bellies with the Flefli of the (lain Prifoners roafted. If the Woman 

 be got with Child by the Slain, they imagine that they can take no greater revenge 

 of their Enemy, than to devour the Child as foon as it comes into the World ; but 

 it often happens, that the Woman really loving her Husband the Prifoner, runs 

 away with him, and fo bereaves her Friends of a Banquet. 



Sect. It. 



St. Vincent. 



THe continual Wars which the Portuguefe have maintain'd againft the Brafi- 

 Hans, have hindred them from Setling any where but along the Sea-fide, 

 where their Refidences are divided into thirteen Prefectures or Lordfhips, 

 by them call'd Capitanias ; the Southermoft whereof being i. St. Vincent, hath a City PIacesofMOti 

 of the fame Denomination, which lies near a River that coming out of the Ocean i ££*{$* 

 runs round in the Countrcy, and fo returns into the Sea. vincm ' 



2. Santloslos Leyes y which reckons four hundred Houfes and three Sugar-MilU. 

 Here great Ships take in their Lading in the middle of the City. 



3. Httauhacin , the moll Southern, is inhabited by the Portuguese. Twelve 

 Leagues from thence up into the Countrey the Jefuits have built the Village 

 St. Paulo, near the Gold-Mines that lie in the Mountains, extending from Eaft to 

 Weft thirty Leagues. This Village, long fince containing eighty Houfes, is inha* 

 bited by Brafilians and a mix'd People ; the Way thither is troublefom, over rough 

 Mountains, and Ways overgrown with Brambles. 



On the Ifland Briticga, at a fandy Inlet which makes a good Harbor, lies a Fort 

 for defence of the Haven St. Vincent : and fince the Englijli, Anno 1582. funk a Ship 

 there, a fecond Fort hath been built to prevent the coming in up the River- yet * 

 notwithstanding Captain Thomas Candifh ran by both the Forts, and burnt St. Vincent ', 

 but fpar'd Santlos. 



Before the River which waflies St. Vincent, appears the Ifland Sebaftian, pretty 

 large, wooddy, and well ftor'd with Venifon ; It hath wholfom Water, good Her- 

 bage, and a fecure Road for Ships againft all Winds. 



Farther into the Sea appears the high and. rocky Ifles Jlcatraces, asalfo Vitlorio 

 des Sufiresy Porto des CaJlelUnos, SMonte de Frigo, Muella, and Queimadas. 



The Natives of St. Vtncenty which are in League with the Portuguefe, are call'd of £*%£_ 

 Tupinikinfiy inhabiting the Mountains which extend above twenty eight Leagues up J£ s *^t' 

 into the Countrey : They maintain continual Wars againft the Qar'ms y a civiliz'd r> '"" 

 People, and white of Complexion, as alfo againft the Cvfin hnbas on the North, 



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