The Hiflory of Book II. 



Thefe two Nations being thus united by the determination 

 of their differences., and the period they put to a cruel war 

 which might have ruin d them both, liv'd afterwards in good 

 correfpondence for many years. But in procefs of time 3 the 

 Caribbians finding themfelves multiply'd in the Country which 

 they had conquer'd by their arms 3 would not embrace the Re- 

 ligion of the Ap alac hit es, whoador'd the Sun, as (hall be (hewn 

 hereafter., nor be prefent at their Ceremonies in the Temple 

 they had in the Province of Bemarin, where the Court was 5 

 nor in fine render the Ring the homages that were due to him 

 for the Province they were polTefs'd of, according to their 

 promife,and the Articles of the Treaty. 



This breach of promife on the part of the Caribbians, and 

 that unjuftiafiable aft:, prov'd the occafion of many bloudy 

 Wars which happen'd afterwards between the two Nations:the 

 Caribbians were furrounded of all fides by their adverfaries, 

 who kept them in (b,that they could not any way enlarge their 

 quarters 5 and on the other fide the Apalachites had in the bow- 

 els of their Country a cruel and irreconcileable enemy, who 

 kept them perpetually in alarms 3 and oblig'd them to be al- 

 ways in arms ; during which 3 both the one and the other, 

 fometimes victorious, fometimes beaten, as the uncertain 

 chance of war was pleas'd to carry it 3 liv'd a very«fad life 5 in- 

 fomuch that, many timds, either for want of cultivating the 

 ground 3 or by reafon of the wafte committed in the fields of 

 one another, a little before the Harveft, they were redue'd to 

 fuch an extreme Famine, as deftroy'd more people than the 

 Sword. 



Above an age was fpent in thefe cofttefts, during which the 

 Caribbians , who had for their Commander in chief and 

 King of their Nation, one of their moft valiant Captains, 

 Whom they called Ragazim, added to their former acquefts 

 another Province 3 which lay next to them on the South fide, 

 and is called Matica, which reaching through the Mountains 

 by an interval that receives a torrent defcending from the fame 

 Mountains^ afterwards extends towards the Weft, as far as the 

 River., which taking its fource at the great Lake, after it hath 

 made feveral Iflands, and flown through divers Provinces, 

 falls at laft into the Ocean : This is the famous River which 

 the French have called the River of May 5 but the Apalachites 

 name it Bafainim, which fignifies in their language 3 */>e delici- 

 ous River , qr abounding in fifh. The Caribbians having thus 

 dilated their territories, and fore'd their Enemies to retreat, 

 made for fome years a truce with the Apalachites, who being 

 wearied out with the Wars, and difcourag'd by thelofs of a 

 confiderable Province, willingly hearkned to that ceffation of 

 arms,and all a&s of hoftility. 



But thefe Apalachites being exafperated to fee their Country 



grown 



