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Thefe expreffions of refped are fuch as are not to be ac- 

 counted favage, as being us'd generally all over the World j 

 Pirard Lin- Dut tne Maldivefes have a particular way of honouring a per- 

 fcot, Garci- fon for as they think it a kind of djfrefpeft to pafs behind any 

 laffo, Des one, fo to exprefs a great fubmiffion they take their paffage juft 

 Hayes, and before him, and making a low obeifance,fay as they go by. May 

 others. # not gliffkafi pu : The Incas, a people of the Kingdom of 

 Per», to exprefs the refpett they bear their God, enter into his 

 Temple backwards, and go out of it after the fame manner, 

 quite contrary to what we do in our ordinary Vifits and Civi- 

 lities .* The Turks account the left hand the more honourable 

 among Military perfons .* The Inhabitants of Java think the 

 covering of the Head is the greateft ad of fubmiffion : The 

 Japnnefes think it a great incivility to receive thofe who 

 would honour them ftanding } they take off their Shooes when 

 they would exprefs how much they honour any perfon : In the 

 Kingdom of Gago in Africk all the Subjects fpe*ak to thejiing 

 kneeling, having in their hands a Vefiel full of Sand, which 

 they caft on their Heads • The Negroes of the Country of An- 

 gola cover themfelves v*ith Earth when they meet with their 

 Prince, as it were to fignifie, that in his . prefence they are but 

 duft and allies : The Maronites of Mount Libanus meeting their 

 Patriarch, caft themfelves at his feet and kifs them s but he in - 

 mediately railing them up, prefents them with his band, which 

 they taking in both theirs, and having kifs'd it, lay on their 

 heads : But they who live about the Streight of Sunda have a 

 very ftrange Cuftom, which is, that to honour their Superi- 

 ors they take them by the left fbot,and gently rub the Leg from 

 the Anckle-bone to the Knee 5 and that done, they in like man- 

 ner rub the Face, and the fore-part of the Head 5 an action 

 which I doubt would be far from being thought refpectful in 

 thefe Parts. 



From what hath been (aid it may be dedue'd, That this 

 Worlds Honour, whatever it may be. Virtue excepted, con- 

 fids only in Opinion and Cuftom, which differ, and fomrimes 

 clafti, according to the diverfity of Mens humours. 



But to return to the Captain of our Caribbians ^ It is his bu- 

 finefs to take the Refolutions of War, to make all Preparati- 

 ons in order thereto , and to go upon any Expedition in the 

 head of his Forces : He alfo appoints the Aflemblies of his 

 Ifland, and take* care for the reparations of the Carbet, which 

 is the Houfe where all Refolutions that concern the Publick 

 are taken : In fine, he ir is who in the name of the whole Ifland, 

 as occaiion ferves.gives-Anfwers,and appoints the days of diver- 

 tifemenr, as we m ntibned before* 



The ndminifhati- 1 t fulHce among the Caribbians is not 

 exercise! by the Gaj v - nqj by any Magiftrare$ but, as it is 

 araqng th 2 , he who thinks himlelf injur 'd gets 



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