The Hi/lory of 



Book II 



to a fecond vifit, there were folemn proteftations made to them 

 from the King and his Officers, that they ftiould be at all other 

 times receivd with the like demonftrations of affedrion, if 

 they were defirous to accompany them four times in the year 

 to the celebration of the fame Ceremonies. 



The Caribbians being return 'd into their Province could not 

 make fufficient acknowledgments of the kind entertainment 

 they had receiv'd : Thofe who had ftay'd at home being ra- 

 vifti'd to fee the rich prefents which their Country-men had 

 brought home, immediately refolv'd to undertake the fame 

 pilgrimage at the next enfuing Feaft : And the day on which 

 it was to be drawing neer, there was fo great a conteftation a- 

 mong them who ftiould go, that if their Cacic^, or chief Cap- 

 tain, had not taken fome courfe therein, the Province would 

 have been deftitute of Inhabitants : The Apalachites on the o- 

 ther fide continu'd their entertainments and liberalities j and 

 there was a certain emulation among^theffrwho ftiould be mod 

 kind to the Caribbians : Their Priefts, who knew what would 

 be the iffue of all this impofture, recommended nothing fo 

 much to them, as the continuation of thofe good Offices^ 

 which they faid were very acceptable to the Sun. 



Three years ftipp'd away in thefe vifits$ at the end whereof 

 the Apalachites, who had exhaufted themfelves in liberalities 

 towards their Neighbours, perceiving they had gain'd extream- 

 ly upon their afle&ions, and that the greateft part of them 

 were grown fo zealous for the fervice of the Sun, that nothing 

 would be able to force out of their apprehenfions the deepfen- 

 timents they had conceiv'd of his Divinity } refolv'd, upon 

 the inftigation of their Priefts, for whofe advice the King and 

 all the people had great refpects and fubmiftions, to take oc- 

 cafion from the expiration of the Truce to renew the war 

 againft the Caribbians 3 and to forbid them accefs to their Ce- 

 remonies, if they would net, as they did, make a publick pro- 

 feflion of believing the Sun to be God, and perform the pro- 

 mife they had fometime made of acknowledging the King of 

 the Apalachites for their Sovereign, and do homage to him for 

 the Province of Antana^ upon which account they had been 

 admitted to be the Inhabitants thereof. 



The Caribbians were divided about theie propofals : For all 

 thofe who were inclin'd to the adoration of the Sun, were of 

 opinion, that fatisfaction ftiould be given to the Apalachites, 

 affirming, that, though they were not oblig'd thereto by their 

 promife, yet would there be an engagement to do it, though 

 it were only to prevent their being depriv'd of the free exer- 

 cife of their Religion, and debar'd their prefence at the facri- 

 fices made to the Sun, which they could not abandon without 

 much regret : The Cacick^or chief Commander, and a great 

 number of themoft confiderable among the Caribbians alledged 



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