Cap.XUI. TheCa V ibbyA(hnds7 



among themfelves but only among Strangers: So that from 

 what hath been faid it is apparent, that though thefc Barbari- 

 ans have a natural fentiment offome Divinity, or Ibme fupe- 

 rior Power, yet it is intermixt with fo many extravagances, and 

 involv'd in fo great darknefs, that it cannot be faid thofe poor 

 people have any knowledge of God: For the Divinities they 

 acknowledge, and to whom they render a certain homage, are 

 fomany Devils, by whom they are feduc'd and kept in the 

 chains of a damnable flavery, though they make a certain di- 

 ftincrion between them and the evil Spirits. 

 . They have neither Temples nor Altars particularly dedica- 

 ted to thefe pretended Divinities which they acknowledge, 

 and lb they do not facrifice to them any thing that hath had 

 life 5 but they only make them offerings of Caffava, and of the 

 firft of their Fruits, and when they think they have been 

 healed by them of fome difeafe, they make a kind of wine or 

 afeaft in honour of them, and by way of acknowledgment, 

 and as it were to exprefs their gratitude, they offer them fome 

 Cajfava, and Omcou 5 all thefe offerings are called by them Ana- 

 cri. Their Houfes being made after on oval figure, and the 

 roof reaching to the ground, they fet at one end of the Hut 

 their Offerings in Veiiels according to the nature of the thing, 

 upon one or moxt Mutant ous^ox HttleTables made of Bull-rufhes 

 and the leaves of the tree called the Latanier : Every one 

 may make his Offerings to his God in his own Houfe, or Cot 5 

 but when it is done in order to invocation, there niuft be one 

 of the Boyez prefent : All thefe, Offerings are not accompa- 

 ny'd with any adoration, or Prayers, and they confift only in 

 the bare prefentation of thofe gifts. 



They alfo invocate their falfe Gods when they defire their 

 prefence } but that is to be done by the interpofition of the 

 Boyez, that is to fay, their Priejis, or to fay better, their Ma- 

 gicians - 0 and this they do efpecially upon four occafions. 



1. To demand revenge on fome body who hath done 

 them any mifchief , and to bring fome punifhment upon 

 him. <s< 



2. To be hMtd of fome difeafe wherewith they are trou- 

 bled, and to know what will be the iffue thereof.- And when 

 they are recovered, they make Wims 0 as they are called in the 

 Iflands, that is, Ajjemblies of rejoycing and congratulation, and 

 debauches in honour of them, as it were by way of acknow- 

 ledgment of their favour : And their Magicians do alfo per- 

 form the office of Phyfitians among them, by an aflbciation of 

 Magickand Medicine, never doing any core, or applying any 

 remedies but what are accompany'd by fome ad of fuper- 

 ftition. 



3. They confult them alfo to know the event of their 



wars. - :. . , ■ • ' t ■, • > 



. , 4, Laftly, 



