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fuch like appear, thea they certainly give 

 out that it is gone into fuch like Creatures 

 but if nothing appear, then they think it is 

 certainly gone to the Starry Regions. 



As for their Learning and Knowledge it is 

 l>ut little they have indeed feveral Books 

 writ in divers Languages, but they contain 

 Bothiiig but a great deal of Stuff and Cant a- 

 bout their Worlhip, Rites and Ceremonies, 



They are ignorant of all parts of the World 

 but their own \ they wonder much at us, that 

 will take fo much Care and Pains, and rurt 

 thro' fo many Dangers both by Sea and Land, 

 only, as they fay, to uphold and nourifh Pride 

 and Luxury. For, fay they-^ every Country 

 in the whole World is fufficiently endowed 

 by Nature with every thing that is necelfa- 

 ry for the Life of Man, and that therefore 

 it is madnefs to feek for, defire, that 

 which is needlefs and unneceffary. 



The laft time that I was at Modufferpare in 

 Tndofian^ I had a great deal of talk with a 

 Sramine fomewhat more Learned than any 

 of the reft, his Name was Rarnnaimt ; he told 

 nie a great many Secrets in Phyiick, and 

 toid me many Traditions and Stories. He 

 fays, that if you bury a piece of Mony for 

 fome confidcrable time in the Mouth of a live 

 Frog, and then dig it up again at Midnight, 

 that this piece of Money, to whomfoever 

 you give or pay it, will always return to you 

 again. 



He fays, that if the little Worm in the 

 Wood Lukerakera be cut in two, and the one 

 part ftirs and the other not, if the ftirring 

 part be bruifed, and given with half a Beetle 



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