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we lay one Night, it being the firft Houfe I had 

 feen for 6 Days ; my Lodging by the way being 

 in a Hammock made faft to 2 Trees, and -my Co- 

 vering a Plantain-Leaf. 

 They The next Morning we fet forward, and in 2 Days 



come to Time arrived at the Sea-fide, and were met by 40 

 fide 8 ^" °^ Sort of Indians in the Country, who 



congratulated our coming and welcomed us to their 

 Indians in Houfes. They were all in their fineft Robes, which 

 Gowns are ^° n .^ w ^^ te Gowns, reaching to their Ancles, 

 own ' with Fringes at the Bottom, and in their Hands they 

 had half Pikes. But of thefe Things, and fuch o- 

 ther Particulars as I obferv'd during my Abode in 

 this Country, I fhall fay more when I come to de- 

 fcribe it. 



We prefently enquired of thefe Indians when they 

 expe£ted any Ships ? They told us they knew not, 

 The in- but would enquire ; and therefore they fent for one 

 dims fall of their Conjurers, who immdiately went to work 

 to conjv- to ra jf e the Devil, to enquire of him at what Time 

 rmg ' a Ship would arrive here; for they are very expert 

 and skilful in their Sort of Diabolical Conjurations. 

 "We were in the Houfe with them, and they firft be- 

 gan to work with making a Partition with Ham- 

 Pawawhg mocks, that the Pawawers, for fo they call thefe 

 Conjurers, might be by themfelves. They conti- 

 nued fome time at their Exercife, and we could hear 

 them make moft hideous Yellings and Shrieks ; imi- 

 tating the Voices of all their kind of Birds and 

 Beafts. With their own Noife, theyjoyn'd that of 

 feveral Stones ftruck together, and of Conch-fhells, 

 and of a forry Sort of Drums made of hollow Bam- 

 boes, which they beat upon; making a jarring 

 Noife alfo with Strings faften'd to the larger Bones 

 of Beafts. And every now and then they would 

 make a dreadful Exclamation, and clattering all of 

 a fudden, would as fuddenly make a Paufe and a 

 profound Silence, But finding that after a cbnfide- 



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