Cap. XIV. 7~£<?Caribby- iflands. 285 



all thingSj and fuperftitioufly give credit to their Anfwers.* 

 This occafions irreconcileable Enmities among them, and ma- 

 ny times Murfhers j for when any one dies T his Friends and 

 Relations are wont to confult the Sorcerer how he came to his 

 death 5 if the Sorcerer anfwers, that fuch or fuch a one was the 

 caufe of it, they will never reft till they have difpatch'dhim 

 whom the Viak (fo they call the Sorcerer in their Language) 

 hath nam'd to them. The Caribbians of the Iflands do alfo in 

 this follow the cuftom of their Country, men of the ContitMnt, 

 as we have reprefented before. 



But this is moft certain, and a thing which all the Savages 

 daily acknowledg themfelves by experience. That the wicked 

 one hath no power to do them any hurt in the company o£ 

 any Chriftians 3 hence it comes, that in thofe Iflands where the 

 Chriftians Hve jointly with the Caribbians , thofe wretched peo- 

 ple being perfecuted by the Adverfary, make all thehafte they 

 can to the next houfes of the Christians , where they find a cer- 

 tain refuge againft the violent afiaults of that furious Oppref- 

 for. 



It is alfo a manifeft truth, confirmed by daily experience all 

 over America , That the holy Sacrament of Baptifm being 

 conferr'd on thefe Savages , the Divel never beats nor tor- 

 ments them afterwards as long as they live. 



A man would think, that this ferioufly confider'd, thefe 

 people fhould earneftly defire to embrace the Chriftian Reli- 

 gion,that fo they might be deliver'd out of the jaws of that roar- 

 ing Lion. True it is, that while they feel the cruel pricks in the 

 Flefh, they with themfelves Chriftians, and promife to become 

 fuch j but as foon as the pain is over, they laugh at Chriftian Re- 

 ligion and its Baptifm. The fame brutifh ftupidity is found T>eUry 3 c. 16 

 among the people of graph 



CHAP. XIV. 



A Continuation of that which may be called Religion 

 among the Caribbians ; Of fome of their Traditi- 

 ons j and of the Sentiment they have of the Immor~ 

 tality of the Soul. 



WE have feen in the precedent Chapter how the Spirits 

 of darknefs take occafion in the night-time, by hide- 

 ous apparitions and dreadful reprefentations, to frighten the 

 sniferable Caribbians 3 and how to continue them in their Er- 



O o 2 rors 3 



