Cap. VII. The Canbby-I Hands. 



grown lefsby one of thebefr Provinces belonging to it, taking 

 the advantage of the opportunity of that Truce, fecrerly con- 

 sulted feveral times among themfelves how they might carry on 

 their defigns more fucceffully againft the Caribbians then they 

 had done before $ and having found by fad experience, that 

 they had not advanc'd their affairs much by afiaulting their 

 Enemies openly, and by fetled Engagements, they refolv'^l to 

 fupplant them by fubtlety 3 and to that end to think of all Ways 

 imaginable to make a divifion among them, and infenfibly to 

 eng.ige them in a Civil War within their own Country. This 

 advice being receiv'd and generally approv'd of all their 

 Priefts, who are in very great efteem among them, and have 

 Voices in their mod important AiTemblies, immediately fur- 

 niuYdthem with expedients, and fuggefted to them the means, 

 which were to this effect. 



They had obferv'd that thofe people who came in fo flily and 

 furprizd them in their own Countrv, were without Religion, 

 and made no acknowledgment of any Divinity, whereto they 

 conceiv'd themfelves oblig'd to render any publick Service,and 

 that they (rood in fear only of a certain evil Spirit which they 

 called Mabouya , becaufe he fometimes tormented them} yet 

 fo as that in the mean time they did not do him any homage .* 

 Thence it came that for fome years after their arrival, during 

 which they had liv'd in good correfpondence with them, they 

 endeavour'd to induce them by their example to acknow- 

 ledge the Sun to be the fovereign Governour of the World, 

 and to adore him aaGod. Thefe Exhortations and Inftrudtlons 

 had a great influence over the Spirits of thechiefeft among the 

 Caribbians^ and had made ftrong impreffions in them 5 fo that 

 having receiv'd the firft Principles of that Religion while the 

 time of their mutual correfpondence continu'd , many left 

 the Province of Amana wherein they had their habitations,and 

 went into that of Bemarin^ the principal Province of the Apa- 

 lachites, whence they afcended into the Mountain of Qlaimi % 

 upon which the Malachites made their folemn Offerings 5 and 

 upon their invitation the Caribbians had participated of thofe 

 Cermonies and that Service : Thefe Priefts, whom the Apala- 

 chites call Jaouas, which is as much as to fay, Aden of God 3 knew 

 that the feeds of Religion are not fo eafily fmother'd in the 

 hearts of men } and that, though the long Wars they had had 

 with the Caribbians had hinder'd the exercife thereof,yet would 

 it be no hard matter for them to blow up, as we may (ay, thofe 

 iparks in them which lay hid under the afties. 



The Truce and Cefiation of all a&s of Hoftility, which had 

 been concluded between the two Nations, prefented the Apa- 

 lachites with a favourable opportunity to profecute their de- 

 fign \ whereupon the Priefts of the Sun advis'd, with the Kings 

 Confent, that there (hould be a publication made among the 



F f Caribbians^ 



