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fhould undertake to imitate the Jaoicas of the Apalachites^hty 

 would, by the mifcarriages likely to be committed therein, 

 draw upon themfel vest he indignation of the Divinity which 

 they would ferve, inftead of gaining its favour} That they 

 had found upon enquiry, that there was not any Mountain in 

 the whole Country fo kindly look'd upon by the Sun, and fo 

 pleafant as that oiolaiwi: Nor was there any other that had 

 a Temple naturally made in the Rock, after fo miraculous a 

 manner, which was fuch, that all the art and induftry of man 

 could never bring to that perfection, and that it could be no 

 other than the work of the beams of that Divinity which was 

 thereador'd. That though it were fuppos'd they might find 

 out a Mountain and a Cave that came fomewhat neer the 

 other, which yet they thought impoffible, it was quelriorra- 

 ble whether thofe Birds who were the Sun's Meflengers would 

 make their habitation there And that the Fountain confe- 

 crated in honour of him, which wrought admirable effects, 

 and unheard of cures, would be found there 5 And confe- 

 quently, that they ftiould expofe themfelves to the derifionof 

 the Apalachites, who would ftill have occafion to make their 

 brags of an infinite number of prerogatives peculiar to their 

 ancient Temple and Service, which the new one they preten- 

 ded to build would never have. From all which confidera- 

 tions the Religious party concluded, that their beft courfe 

 was to make a firm peace, that fo they might have the conve- 

 nience of participating of the fame Ceremonies for the fu- 

 ture, which they had frequented during the Truce. 



But thofe who were refolv'd on the contrary fide were Co 

 obftinate, that all thofe remonftrances prevail'd nothing upon 

 them, nor could in the leaft divert them from the refolution 

 they had taken never to acknowledge the Apalachites for 

 their Sovereigns, norlofe their liberty under pretence of Re- 

 ligion and way of Worlhip, which their fore-fathers had been 

 ignorant of: So that, in fine, this contrariety of fentiments 

 made an abfolute rupture among the Caribbians, fo as to di- 

 vide them into two factions, as the Priefts of the Apalachites 

 had forefeen 5 whereupon being divided alfo in their Coun- 

 cels, they could not return an unanimous anfwer to the pro- 

 pofitions of peace or war which had been made to them by the 

 Apalachites : But either party growing ftronger and ftronger 

 daily, that which voted for an allyance with the Jpdachites^ 

 and ftood for the adoration of the Sun, became fo powerful as 

 to be in a condition to oblige the other either to embrace 

 their opinion, or quit the Province. 



It would be too tedious a Relation to fet down here all the 

 mifchiefs and miferies which that Civil War brought among 

 the Caribbians i who mutually deftroy'd one the other, till at 

 laft, after many fights, the^/^/'to joyning with that party 



which 



