z-/o The Htflory of Book II. 



But if they are once in jur'd, either by a Stranger or one of 

 their own Countrymen, they never forgive, but contrive all 

 the waies they can to be revenged : Thus when any of 

 thofe Importers, whom they call Bogez, makes them believe 

 that one of thofe whom they account Sorcerers is author of the 

 mifchief that hath happened to them, they endeavour all they 

 can to kill him, faying, laraliatana, he hath bewitched me 5 Ne- 

 banebouibatina, I will be revenged of him 1 And this furious 

 paffion and defire to be revenged, is that which makes them 

 fo brutifli, as we faid before, as to eat the very flefh of their 

 Enemies, whereof we (hall give the particulars in their pro- 

 per place : This implacable animofity is the vice generally 

 reigning among them ; and it exercifes the fame Tyranny, 

 without any exception, over all the Savages of America : The 

 revenge of the Inhabitants of Canada is fometimes very plea- 

 fant 3 for they eat their own lice, becaufe they have bitten 

 VeLeryc. them: If the Brazilians hurt themfelves againft a ftone, to be 

 11. & 14. revenged they bite it as hard as they can 5 It is obferved alio 

 that they bite the Arrows which light upon them in fight- 

 ing. 



Without any obligation to Lycurgus, or his Laws, the Carib- 

 bians, by a fecret law of nature, bear a great refpeft to anci- 

 ent people, and hear themipeak with much attention, expref- 

 fingby their gefture,and a little tone of the voice, liow much 

 they are pleas'd with their difcourfes : And in all things the 

 younger fort comply with the fentiments of the ancient, and 



Linfiet & fubmit to their wills : It is reported they do the fame in Brajjtl 



Semedo. an( j C fo„ a . 



The Young men among the Caribbians have no converfation 

 either with the Maids or married Women : And it hath been 

 obferved, that the men are lefs amorous in this Country than 

 the women, as they are in (everal other places under the Tor- 

 rid Zone : Both the men and women among the Caribbians are 

 naturally chaft, a quality very rare among Savages .* And when 

 thofe of other Nations look over-earneftly upon them, and 

 laugh at their nakednefs, they are wont to fay to them. Friends , 

 you are to look, on us only between both the eyes$ a vertue worthy 

 admiration in a people that go naked, and are as barbarous as 

 thefe. 



It is related of Captain Baron, that in one of the incurfions 

 made by him and his party into the Ifland of Montferrat, then 

 poffeft by the EngHJh 9 he made great wafte in the Plantations 

 that lay neereft to the Sea, fb that he carried a great booty, 

 and. that among the Prifoners there being a young Gentlewo- 

 man, Wife to one of the Officers of the Ifland, hecaufed her 

 to be brought to one of his houfes in Dominico: thisGentle- 

 1 woman being big with child when fhe was carried away, was 

 very carefully attended during the time of her lying in, by 



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