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Chap. VII. 



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call'd Orapares, with Shields, which are made of the Skin of a Beaft call'd Tap- 

 roujfous. 



The Women wear long Chains of Snail-fliells, which hang down over theit 

 Shoulders ; their Faces are Painted with divers coloured Rings, furrounded with 

 Specks ; their Necks and Arms they adorn wich Necklaces and Armlets of little 

 Bones : They carry their Husbands Provifions in time of War. 



Their Army they order by blowing on the Horn Inubia 5 others play on Mens 

 Bones kill'd a little before : for going by Water they ufc Boats made of the Barks of 

 Trees, each wheredf being able to carry fifty Men, go exceeding fwift : The 

 ftrongeft Men always march before, and as many as they take, whether Men, Wo» 

 men, or Children, they are all kill'd and roafted in their toucans. 



Their Villages confift of Houfes of eighty, ninety, or a hundred Paces longj 

 thofe that lie near the Enemy are fene'd with Walls and Pallifado's againft any 

 Attempt. Their Field-Battels are very terrible 5 for as foon as they get fight of one 

 •of Fig*- ano ther, they howl like Wolves, which Tone they raife as they approach nearer 

 and nearer, and with their Horns and Pipes make alfo a mighty found . then flia* 

 king their former Enemies Teeth (which they wear about their Necks) at one ano- 

 ther, they cry, That they fhatt immediately fall into each others hands for Food : whereupon 

 they throw their Darts at one another, which arc adorn'd with all forts of Feathers, 

 and if any one be wounded, he pulls out the Dart, and bites the fame like a mad 

 Dog; next falling to their Clubs, they knock one anothers Brains out: which 

 manner of Fighting lads commonly fome hours before the one or other Party leave 

 the Field. All their Prifoners they fatten, and eat them at a Merry-meeting . at 

 which when they have Danc'd feven hours together, three Men lead the Prifoner, 

 ty'd with a Rope made of the Bark of a Tree call'd Juira } through their Village, 

 whileft the Prifoner looking to and again, faith in a fcornful manner thus unto 

 them, You, do ye hear ? I have eatenyour Fathers : and to others, 1 have roajied your !Bro~ 

 ther- y your Nepbelb alfo tajled Very Tbe// ; my Death mil he fufficiently reVengd : Having 

 carry 'd him about for fome time, they put the Rope fo ftrait about his Middle, 



that 



