The Hi/lory of BookII. 



Travels of 

 Villamont 

 lib. 2. 

 Paludanus 

 wzLinfcot. 

 c 7 6.& Win 

 le Blanc. 



Linfcot & 

 deLaet. 



Accofta & 

 !e Jeune 



Lib. 



holes, and to fight in the open field, or run away : When our 

 Savages have thus gotten them into the field, they prelently 

 flioot away all their arrows, which being fpent they take their 

 Boutous, and do Arrange things therewith ■> they are in perpetual 

 motion all the time they are fighting, that the Enemy may- 

 have the lefs time to obferve them : Fire-arms, efpecially great 

 Guns, which make fo great noife, and do fiich execution, efpe- 

 cially when they are loaden with Nails, Chains, and other pie- 

 ces of old Iron, have abated much of their courage when they 

 have bad to do with Europeans, and makes them afraid to come 

 neer their Ships and Forts.* But though they do not take Opi- 

 um, to make them left fcnfible of danger, before they go to 

 fight, as the Turks and the Eaft-Indians of Cananor do *, nor yet 

 feed on Tygers and Lions to make themlelves more couragious, 

 as the people of the Kingdom of Narjtnga towards Malabar 5 

 yet when they fight equally armed with the Arouaguts^vA have 

 begun the Battel, efpecially if they are animated with fome 

 good fuccefs, they are as bold as Lions, and will either over- 

 come or die. Thus did the warlike Savages of the Country of 

 Carthagena 0 when they were affaulted by the Spaniards 3 for 

 they fell in among them with fuch fury, both men and women, 

 that a young maid laid feveral Spaniards upon the place ere 

 ftie was killed her felf. They fay alfo that the Mexicans and 

 Canadians will rather be cut to pieces than taken in fight. 



If the Caribbians can take any one of their Enemies alive a 

 they bind him and bring him away captive into their Iflands, 

 but if any one of theirs fall dead or wounded in the field, it 

 would be an eternal and inlupportable reproach to them to 

 leave him in the power of the Enemy .* That confideration 

 makes them break furioufly into the mid ft of the greateft dan- 

 gers, and refolutely make their way through whatever op- 

 pofes them, to retrive the bodies of their Comrades-, and ha- 

 ving gotten them by force from amongft the Enemies, they 

 carry them to their Veffels. 



When the fight is over,our Savages make their retreat to the 

 Sea- fide, or into fome neighbouring Ifland and if they have 

 received forne confiderable lofs by the death of fome of their 

 Chief Commanders, or their moft valiant Soldiers, they fill 

 the air with dreadful howling and crying before they get into 

 their Veffels 3 and intermixing their tears with the blood of 

 the deceafed,they mournfully difpofe them into their Piragas, 

 and accompany them with their regrets and fighs to fome of 

 their own Territories. 



But when they have had the Victory, they fpend not the 

 time in cutting off the heads of their (lain Enemies, in carrying 

 them in triumph, and in taking the skins of thofe poor bodies, 

 to make Standards in their Triumphs, as the Canadians do, and 

 as heretofore was the cuftom of the Scythians , as Herodotus af- 

 firms, 



