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deficient an ought/and others quite ruined, he asked how rfiofe 

 boufes. rarae to befo } whereto the Cacic^ or Caprain, made 

 a-tafwer, That it was becaufe forne perfons had dy'd in thofe pla- 

 ces. iThe ancient Peruvians put themfelves to the trouble of 

 fitch a removal,, if their habitations receiv'd any prejudice by- 

 Thunder 5 for then they conceiv'd fuch an abomination there- 

 at, that they tmade up the doors thereof with ftones andcKxt, 

 that oo body might ever enter there any more. 



It is reported. That heretofore the men of the Province of 

 ggito in Pern thought it no (hame to employ themfelve&in all 

 things relating to houfe-keeping^while their Wives weatabfoad 

 walking at their pkafiires : And the ancient Mgypians did the 

 like, if we may credit Herodotus : And we are to acknowledge Lib, 

 that the employment of dreffing Meat in the Kitchen was ac- 

 counted honourable in ancient Greece 5 for honed Hamw in Lib. 

 his Iliad repreients Achilles making a Hajh , and fpitting the 

 Meat, and all his Courtiers bufie in the Kitchen for theenter- 

 tainment of the EmbafladOfs Of Agamemnotrv $nd as to Filfi, 

 it bath always had this priviledge, that Perfons oi*Quality have 

 thought^ no difparagement to have a ringer in the ordering of 

 it. u ■ ■ 1 : \ : ■ ■ 



But among the Garibbians the men think all thefe employ- 

 ments below and unbefitting them^ they for the moft part lpend 

 the itime afcrroad b bwt their Wives keep at home, and do all that 

 is- requifite about the houfe : True it is, the men fell down 

 Timber for the building of their. Houfes, and when they are 

 built k inbeif bufinefs to keep them.in repair j but the women 

 take eafre for all things roecefTary for the fubfiftence of the FamK 

 ly : >The men go a hunting and a hftSing, as we (hall declare 

 more at large elfwherie;$ but the women fetch home the.¥eni- 

 fon from the place where k was kill'di, and the FiuV from the 

 Waiter-fide r h is thewromenswoTk, in fine, to get in Manioc, 

 to pueparc the Ca^am^ and the Ouiaotf^ which is thjeir ordinary 

 Drink, . to chreft all the Meat, to fet the Gardens* and to keep 

 the howfe! clean, and all; che hou(hOld*-ftutT in good order 5I not 

 not tor«tention the pains they wfeein painting their Husbands 1 

 wMit MonaoHy and! ipinnmi^ Cotton' for the ufe of the Family : 

 fb trhatthtfyare continirally employ 'd, and their work is nevec 

 arao^nd,- while their Husbands divert themfelves abroad $ and 

 fQjtbfly.'arB mhm tdibe accounted Sid ves then 1 Companions. 



In the Iftands of S.VirtWHrm&Dotmmccl there are fortie th 

 ribbians who have many Negroes to their Slaves, as the Spani- 

 ards and fome other Nations have $ fome of them they got 

 from the EngliJJ) Plantations, and fome from Spanijh Ships here- 

 tofore caft away on their Coaftsi and they call them tamons^ 

 t\\M.h r Slaves: They are fo well ordered, that they ferve them 

 in all things about which they areemploy'd with as much obe- 

 dience, readinels, and refpect,as if they were the moft civilized 

 people in the World. Now 



