0&% XX T^Caribby-Iflands. 



hich fatisfa&ion of his advcrfary as he thinks fir, according as 

 his p;fiion Hifrates to him, or his ftrength permits him; The 

 Priblick does not concern it felf at all in the puniftiment of Cri- 

 minals 5 and if any one among them fufFers an injury or afFront 2 

 without endeavouring to revenge himfelf, he is {lighted by all 

 the reft, and accounted a Coward, and a Perfon of noefteenu 

 But, as we faid before, there happen few quarrels or fallings out 

 among them. 



A Brother revenges his Brother and Sifter, a Husband his 

 Wife, a Father his Children 5 fo that when any one is kill'd, 

 they think it juftly done, becaufe it is done upon the account 

 of revenge and retaliation .• To prevent that, if a Savage of 

 one ifland hath kill'd another Savage, out of a fear of being 

 kill'd by way of revenge by the Relations of the deceafed, he 

 gets into another Ifland and fetles himfelf there. Thofe whom 

 they think Sorcerers do not exercife that profeflion long among 

 them, though for the moft part they are rather imagin'd to be 

 fech, than that they are really fo. 



If the caribbians fufped any one 'to have ftollen fomthing 

 from them, they endeavour to lay hold on him, and to cut him 

 over the Shoulders with a Knife or the Tooth of an AgoHty> as 

 atnark of his crime and their revenge : Thefe Agoutys Teeth 

 among the Caribbians fupply the want of our Rafors,and indeed 

 they are in a manner as (harp : Thus the ancient Peruvians and 

 the Canadians ^ before they had the ufe of our Iron InftrumentSj 

 made ufe of a certain kind of Flint inftead of SeirTers, Lancets, 

 and tVafors. 



The Husband fuffers hot his Wife to break her conjugal Faith 

 towards him without puniftiment j but he himfelf a&s the part 

 of both Judge and Executioner, as we ftiall declare more par- 

 ticularly in the Chapter of their Marriages. They know not 

 what it is to punifti publickly, or to obferve any form in the ex- 

 ecution of juftice 5 nay, they have no word in their Language 

 to fignifie Jit Bice or Judgment. 



CHAP. t% 



Of the Wars of the Caribbians. 



"|T is commonly at their publick Feafts and Entertainments 

 j[ that the Caribbians take their Relolutionsof engaging upon 

 any War 5 which humour is not particular to their Nation } 

 for the Brazilians and the, Canadians do the like : And that it , 

 srtay not be thought this is found only among Savages, Hervdo- Lib. u. 



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