TheBftoryof Book H. 



But to return to our Savages : There are to be feen within 

 the inclofures of their houfes a great number of Poultry and 

 Turkeys, which they breed not fo much for their own Tables, 

 as to make Prefents to their Friends the Chriftians who come 

 to vifit them, or to be exchang'd for Hedg-bills , Wedges , 

 Hoes, and other Inftruments of Iron which they ftand in need 

 of. 



They have alfo about their habitations good ftore of Orange- 

 Trees, Citron-Trees, Guavas, Fig-Trees, Bananas, and other 

 Fruit-Trees j many of thofe little Tree's which bear the fjman, 

 and the Shrubs and Simples whereof they have any acquain- 

 tance, to be us'd when they have any need of them$ and with 

 thefe their little Gardens are bordered 3 but within they are full 

 of Manioc, Potatoes 3 and feveral forts of Pulfe,as Peafe of di- 

 vers kinds, Beans, Mais, fmall Millet, and fome others : They 

 have alfo Melons of all forts, excellent Citruls, and a kind of 

 Cabbige calkd the Caribbian-CzbhagCy which are of a very 

 delicious t j/r; But they beftovv their greateft pains about the 

 culture of the Ananas , which they prefer before all other 

 Fruits. 



But though they have no Villages,nor movable Houfes, fuch 

 as may be remov'd from one place to another, as is reported of 

 the Bedsvins a. poor people of Mgyp z ^certain Moors inhabitants 

 on the South-fide of Turns in Africa, and certain Nations of 

 Gr ezt-Tart ary $ yet do they often change their Habitations, as f 

 the humour takes them y for as foon as they take the leaft d?£ 

 guft to their Habitations, they immediately tranfplant them- 

 felvesto fome other place j and this is done of a fudden, and 

 without defiring any permiffion of the Cacic^ as the ancient 

 Teruvians were oblig'd to do of their King upon fuch occafions. 



Among the occafions of this change of habitation among the 

 Caribbians of the Iflands 5 one is a perfwafion that they (hall 

 have their health better in fome other place 5 the fame caufe 

 occafions many times a removal of houfe-keeping among the 

 Brafilians t Somtimes it is caus'd by fome naftinels done in their 

 Habitations^ for which they conceive a certain horrour 5 and 

 fomtimesthe death of one of thehoufe, which caufing in them 

 an apprehenfion of going the fame way, obliges them to take 

 up their Quarters in fome other place, as if death could not as 

 eafily meet with them there 5 but this foolifti apprehenfion is 

 much more prevalent avith the Caribbians of the Continent, 

 who upon fuch occafions will be fure to burn their habitations, 

 and march to fome other place: This pleafant Superftition is 

 obfervable alfo among the Indians of the Ifland of Coraffao, 

 though thofe poor people havereceiv'd Baptifm 5 for Monf du 

 Montd relates. That being in the great Village of thofe Indians 

 named the Afeenfion, and having obferved in two or three pla- 

 ces fome houfes without any Inhabitants, though they were not 



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