Cap. VIII. T&Caribby-lOands. 



the Villages tbar lie about the great Lake, and upon the decent 

 of the Mountains which look towards the Country of the 

 Cofachites : It is reported, that they have baptized with great 

 pomp the raracoujfis of the Province of Achalaca s arid a great 

 number of his Subjects. 



k When thefe religious men return from their Millions, they 

 live in a folitary, yet delightful place, which lies upon the 

 defcentof a high Mountain, not above a quarter of a league 

 diftant from the great Lake, and about as rnuch from the 

 greateft Village of the Province of Achalaca, Before a man 

 comes to their habitation, he muft crofs through feveral fair 

 Gardens, in the midft whereof there is a pleafant walk, plant- 

 ed with trees on both fides, which reaches to the skirt of the 

 Mountain : And though they have feated themfelves on an 

 eminent place, yet they have many Iprings, which, falling down 

 from the upper part of the Mountains, are receiv'd into great 

 Cifterns and great Ponds, where they have abundance of 

 good Fifti : The Lord of the Country vifits them often, and 

 hath a great reipeft for them for the moft part, he hath fome 

 one of them about his perfon , who ferves him as a Chap- 

 lain. 



In the year One thouland fix hundred fifty and three, in 

 which Mr. BrigUoch^ that moft inquifitive EngUJh Gentleman, 

 from whom we have receiv'd all the account we have given of 

 the Apaiachites s arriv'd in that Province of Achalaca, the fore- 

 mention cl Religious men entertain'd him very kindly, and 

 did him all the good offices lay in their power : From them it 

 was, that, during his aboad in the Country, he learnt all the 

 particulars we are now going to defcribe, and which he hath 

 liberally communicated to us. 



They Ihow'd him an admirable Flower, which grows a bun* 

 dantry in the Mountains of thole parts : The figure of this 

 Slower is much like that of a Bell, and there are as many co- 

 lours obfervable in it as in the Rain-bow ; the under leaves, 

 which being fully blown, are much larger than thole of out 

 greateft Rofes, are charged with a great many other leaves, 

 which appear ftill lefs and lels to the lower part or bottom of 

 the Bell .- Out of the midft of them there rifesa little button* 

 like a heart, which is of a very delicious tafte : The Plant hath 

 a little bulhinefi at the top, much like Sage: The leaves and 

 the flower fmell like a Violet : It is alfo a kind of lenfitive 

 Plant, for it cannot be touch'd, either inits leaves or flower,but 

 it immediately withers. 



Tbefe Religious men carryed the laid Englijb Gentleman to 

 a Village of the Indians , who inhabit in the Mountains, where 

 there is a miraculous Grott or Cave, wherein the waters have 

 faftjion'd all the moft delightful rarities, that a man can delire 

 from a divertifment of that kind.* They (hew'd him particu- 



