Gap. XX. T^Caribby-lflands. 311 



try, commonly once or twice a year, to be reveng'd of them 

 as much as they can: And it is to be obferv'd on the other 

 fide, that the Arouagues never make any attempts on the Ca- 

 ribbians of the Iflands, in the Iflands where they live, but on- 

 ly fcand on the defenfive; whereas they are fure to have our 

 Savages among them oftner then they with, coafting along, 

 as they are wont to do, all the other Iflands wherein they have 

 Gardens or Colonies, though the furthermoft of the Caribby- 

 Iflands, which is Santa-Cruce, is diftant from the Country of the 

 Arouagues about three hundred Leagues. 



; It was Alexanders generofity made himufe this exprefiion, QXurt.Ju- 

 that a Victory was not to be ftollen : but Vhilip of an humour ftin./. 9*~ 

 different from his Son, thought there was no (hame in a Con- 

 queft,howereit wereobtain'd : Our Caribbians, with moft of 

 the old Inhabitants of America, are of the fame opinion : For 

 they carry on all their wars by furprize, and think it no difho- 

 nourto make their advantage of the night: Contrary to the 

 Icaquefes, who would think their reputation blafted, if coming 

 to the Territories of their Enemies, they did not fend them 

 notice of their arrival, and challenge them to come and receive 

 them armed. ; The Arraucanes, next neighbour to the Cht li s 

 a warlike people, and whom the Spaniard hath not been yet 

 able to overcome, nay was fometimes worfted by them, do 

 much more : For when they are to engage againft an Enemy, 

 they have the War proclaim 'd by Heraulds, and fend this mef- 

 fagetothem - 0 We {hall meet thee within fo many Moons , be rea- 

 dy. And fo the Tncas 0 the Rings of Peru, never undertook any Garcikf. /, 

 war, till they had firft advertis'd their Enemies thereof, and 5. c . 12/ 

 declar'd it two or three times : Whence it may be inferred by 

 the way, that V Efcarbot is miftaken in his Hiftory of New- Lib. 3 c.25. 

 France, where he affirms, that all the Wefi-Indians generally 

 wage their wars by furprize. 



The Caribbians have this imagination, that the War they 

 mould begin openly would not profper : So that having landed 

 in the Country of the Arouagues, if they are discovered before 

 they give the firft (hock, or that a dog, as one would {ay, did 

 bark at them, thinking it ominous, tney immediately return 

 to their Veflels, and fo to their Iflands, leaving the defign to be 

 profecuted fome other time. 



But if they are not difcovered, they fall upon their Ene~ 

 mies even in their Houfes : If they cannot eafily come at them, 

 or find them well fortified in fome Houfes that have good Pali- 

 fadoes, whence they play upon them with their Arrows with 

 fome advantage, they are wont to force them out by (hooting 

 lire to the Houfes with their Arrows, at the points whereof they 

 faften lighted Cotton : And thefe arrows being (hot on the 

 roofs, which eonfift of Grafs or Palm-leaves, they prefently 

 fet them on fire : Thus the Arouagues are forced out of their 



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