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CHAP. XVI. 

 Of the ordinary Repays of the Caribbians. 



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MOft of thofe people who have the denomination of Sa- 

 vages and Barbarians are gluttonous and beaftly in their 

 Repafts: The Brazilians eat and drink exceffively, naftily,and De Lery, 

 at all hours, nay they rife many times in the night to that em^c 9- 

 ployment : The Canadians are fuch gluttons, that they eat till -^dathn of 

 they are ready, to burft , nay they are fo ravenous, that they z\r^F™»ce. 

 will not lofe fo much as the skimmings of the Pot: They are ne- 

 ver feen either to wa(h their hands, or the meat they eat: They 

 have no other napkins than the hair of their own heads, or that 

 of their dogs, or thefirft thing they meet with.- The Grande 

 Tartars do the like : They never warn their Diihes or Kettles, Rubrlques 

 but with the pottage made in them, and are fo nafty that what & Carp i i, 

 they do is not be related : The other Tartars come not much B^bequius 

 Chortof them in naftinefs and gluttony, ufing their hands in- D e3 Hayes* 

 ftead of fpoons to take up their pottage, and eating the flefh o£& Bergeron 

 dead horfes, without any other dreffing than fetting of it an 

 hour or two between their faddles and horfes-backs. *u like Vin.leBlanc. 

 manner (to make an end of thefe flovenly inftances) the Inha- e^Garci- 

 bitants of Guinny 3 thofe of the Cape of Good Hope^ and certain laflo, 

 other Savages eat raw and ftinking ftem, together with the 

 hair and feathers, guts and garbage, like fo many dogs : But 

 we are tQ give our Caribbians this commendation, that they 

 are temperate and cleanly in their ordinary Repafts, as well as 

 thofe of the Continent, though fome among them deferve not 

 this elogy, as there is no rule fo general but may have fome ex- 

 ception. Monfieur dy Montel, a worthy and faithful witnefs, 

 gives this teftimony of fobriety and cleanlinefs to thofe whom 

 he had feen at St. Vincents and elfe where : But as we faid be- 

 fore, they are not all fuch, for thofe who have feen them at 

 Dominicogwe them not the fame Character. 



This people eat many times together in a publick houfe, as 

 we (hall fee more particularly hereafter, either upon the ac- 

 count of divertifement and to be more than ordinarily merry, 

 or to difcourfe concerning their wars and common affairs, as 

 the Lacedemonians were heretofore wont to do : The women, 

 according to thecuftomeof fome other barbarous Countries, 

 eat not till their husbands have done 5 and they have nofettime 

 for their Repafts : Their ftomacks are their Clocks and Re- 

 membrancers : They fo patiently endure hunger, that after 

 they are returned from filhing they will have the patience to 

 broil their fifb over a fbft fire on a wooden frame made like a 



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