C a p. VIII. The Caribby-Iflands. 



tion } andafter they had kept them form times above a year in" 

 their houfes, they buried them in their Gardens, or in the 

 neighbouring Forefts, with great lamentations and ceremo- 

 nies. They {hew to this day at the foot of the pleafant Moun- 

 tain of Olaimi, the Sepulchres of feveral of their Kings, which 

 are cut in the Rock, there is planted before every one of 

 them a fair Cedar, for the better obfervation of the place, and 

 more exacl continuance of their memories. 



To make a greater expreffion of their mourning, and to 

 (he w how much they bewail'dthe death of their Friends and 

 Kinred, they cut off fome part of their hair$ but when any 

 King died they (hav'd the whole head, and fuffer'd not their 

 hair to grow again, till they had bewail'd him for the fpace of 

 fifteen months. 



The Knowledge which the Apalachites have of God, they 

 have attain'd to by feveral degrees : For, to go to the bottom 

 of the bufinefs, it is about an Age fince that the firft Seeds of. 

 Chriftian Religion were fown in that part of Florida, by a 

 French Colony confiftingof feveral Perfons of Quality, which 

 was brought thither and eftablifh'd there by one Captain K/- 

 bauldjn the time of Charles the Ninth King of France : The firft 

 thing he did was to build a Fort, which he named Carolina^ in 

 honour of ¥&& Chriftian Majefty : He impos'd alfoon the Capes 3 

 Ports, and Rivers of that Country, the names they are at the 

 prefent known by ■> fo that along the Coaft a man finds a place 

 called the Fort Royal,the French Cape^he Rivers of Seine } Loj/re, 

 Charante,Garonne, Dauf.ns, May, Somme, and feveral other pla- 

 ces, which have abfolute French names, and confequently are 

 a liianifeft argument that the faid Nation have heretofore had 

 fome command there. 



But what is more worthy obfervation, and conduces more 

 to our purpofe, is, that at this firft Expedition for Florida, there, 

 went along with the Adventurers two Learned and Religious 

 Perfons, who immediately upon their arrival in the Country 

 made it their bufinefs, by all forts of good offices, to infinuate 

 themfelves into the affections of the Inhabitants, and to learn 

 their Language, that fo they might give them fome knowledge 

 of God, and the (acred inyfteries of his Gofpel. The Memo- 

 rials which Captain RibauldXtix. behind him as to that particu- 

 lar, (hew how that the King Saturiova, who govern'd the 

 Quarter where the French had eftablifti'd themfelves, and who 

 had for Vaflals to him feveral little Kings and Princes who 

 were his Neighbours, receiv'd thofe Preachers very kindly, 

 and recommended it to all his Subjects, that they (hould have a 

 lingular efteem for them } fo that the affection thofe poor peo^ 

 pie bore them, and the fidelity and zeal the others exprefs'd for 

 the advancement of their Converfion, rais'd even then very 

 great hopes that the work of the Lord would profper in their 



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