tfoo a M E%.l C A. Chap- V1L 



Phyficians, with the Juice of the Root call'd jaborandi : wherefore he always de. 

 fn'd their Company when he went to vifit fick or wounded Men. 



The Diftempers in America differ much from the European, not onely in the Signs 



Their man- l t r^-rt t > i i 



thcsLr^ o( any Diftemper, but alfo in the Cure . for when a Diftemper cannot be cur d by 

 ^un'gthc theprcfcribcd Medicines, a Father or Mother fends for the Neighbors, to know if 

 they can find any means to cure the Difeafe : which Cuftom was anciently ob- 

 ferv'd amongft the Greeks. They alfo ftrictly obferve a Rule in their Diet, and 

 take care to keep the Patient out of the Sun in the Day, and cold Winds in the 

 Night : however, if their Fathers and Mothers be fick, neverthelefs they leave not 

 ofFtheir ufual Dancing and Singing 5 but if the fick Pcrfon die, efpecially a Father, 

 they lament and cry over the Corps like Wolves, calling to one another wuh a 

 quavering Voice, and uttering thefe Expreffions, The Jirong Man is deceas'd, *f»ho 

 carry d fo many frifoners for a brave Dinner to his Houfe. Oh what a quick Hunter and 

 fubtil Fijher hath Death bereav'd us of I we [hall fee him no more till our Souls are carry d hem 

 yond the high Mountains, Tthereour Valiant Tredecejfors Dance in ^ngs. The Women 

 make the greateft noife, and in the midft of their howling embrace one another, 

 which lafts fix hours, and then they put the Body upright into a Grave made like a 

 Hogfliead, hanging about it divers colour'd Feathers, .and other things in which 

 the Deceafed delighted moft when living ; upon the Grave the neareft Relations 

 place Difliesof Meat, both Flefli and Fifli, and the Liquor Cauou-in, that their evil 

 Spirit callM Aygnan, may be reconcil'd by thefe Offerings, and not carry away the 

 Body ; but when they remove from thence they cover the Grave with the Herb 

 Tindo. This Cuftom is not obferv'd by all !Brafilians, for fome eat up their de- 

 ceafed Relations. 



Sect. XIII. 



Grave Maurice his Account of Brafile, fo far as it concerned 



the Weft-India Company. 



B%afile, fo far as it concerns the WeU-htdia Company, extends from the River 

 %eal, which divides Seregippa and the Lordfhip of St. Salvador, to Maragnan : 

 Seregippa it felf reaches along the Sea-Coaft thirty two Leagues, and was 

 firft brought under the King of Spain's Jurifdi&ion by ChrifloVande (Barros Cardofo, 

 who being order *d by the King of Spain to Plant this new Countrey, invited many 

 People from St. Salvador, who built four Sugar*Mills, and a Town confifting of 

 a hundred Houfes, and four hundred Sheds for Cattel •, but the Town being de* 

 ftroy'd, hath nothing left but Heaps of Rubbifli , ; and the Cattel either fell into the 

 Ts^etherlajiders hands, or were devour'd by Tygers ,• the* Inhabitants fled back to 

 St. Salvador : Many troubles have prevented the rebuilding of it. 



Pernambuco may for its fruitfulnefs Hand in competition with any Place in the 

 World, except in thofe parts where the Soil is fandy and ftonie. The Fields 

 feed abundance of excellent Cattel ; the Woods, Deer and Fowl 5 the Ocean and 

 Rivers, all manner of good Fifli. It is inhabited but eight Leagues into the Coun- 

 trey, becaufe the neater the Sea, the more convenient it is for Importing and 

 Exporting of Goods 5 neither could the Tortuguefe, by reafon of their fmall number, 

 fpread themfelves farther, as alfo in regard they found great refiftance from the 

 Brafelians. The Negro's that work in the Sugar-Mills between the River Grande 

 and Francifco, amount to, four thoufand. The C^tVerde, Mina, Angola, Ardra, and 

 Qalabaria, generally provide three thoufand in a year, to fupply the number of the 

 Sick, or thofe that run away. 



Sect. 



The fertility 

 of Permtrn- 

 buto. 



