Cap, XX. The Caribby-Mands. 



firms '5 nay, as was that of the ancient Gauls ^{i we believe Livy. Lib. 10, 

 The Caribbians think it enough to exprefs their joy by outcries 

 over the bodies of the Arouagues^ and afterwards all along their 

 Coafts, as it were to infult over that hateful Country before 

 they leave it : But after they have fung in that ftrange Coun^ 

 try fome of their triumphal fongs, they make what hafte the^ 

 can to their Veftels,to carry away the reft into the bofom of 

 their native foil 5 and the poor Arouagues they have taken, they 

 carry away chain'd, to be dealt with as {hall be feen in the 

 next Chapter. r 



Theendtheypropofeto themfelves in thefe Expeditions, 1*3 

 not to become Mafters of a new Country, or to load them- 

 feives with the fpoils of their Enemies, but only the glory of 

 fubduing and triumphing over them 5 and the pleafure of fa- 

 riating their Revenge for the injuries they have received from 

 them. 



Next the Arouagues ^ the greateft Enemies the Caribbians have 

 are the English ', this enmity took its rjfe hence, that the E#~ 

 glifh, having under the Fla^s of other Nations got divers of 

 the \Caribbians aboard their Ships, where they had at firft 

 charmed them vyith krndnefs, arid- little prefents, efpecially 

 Aq*a-vit&^ which they extreamly lwej when they faw their 

 yelfel full of thefe poor people, who never dreamed of any 

 fuch treachery* weighed anchor, and carried the Caribbians, 

 men, women 4 and childrea into their Plantations, where they 

 are ftill kept as Haves ; lit is reported that they did the like 

 in feveral of the Iflands, wherein they followed the example of 

 the Spaniards : Whence it comes that they ftiil bear a grudge 

 to the Englifhy and can hardly endure to hear their Language 

 fppken : Nay ? their diffatisfaction is fo great, that if a Frenck- 

 man, as fome of that Nation affirm, chance to make ufe of fome 

 fivgkfi expreffions in his difcourfe, he runs the hazard of their 

 enmity : Accordingly, in their turns, by the law of retaliation* 

 they have often made incurfions into the Iflands of Montjerrat, 

 Antego,and others which are in the hands of the Englifi^ and 

 after they hadfet fome houfes on fire, and taken fome Goods, 

 they carried away men, women, and children , whom they 

 brought to Dominico and St. Vincents } but it Was never heard 

 thar they did eat any of them, it feems they referve that cruel- 

 ty for the Arouagues : Nay before the Caribbians had any war 

 with the Inhabitants or Martinico^ when the Parents or Friends 

 of the Englifo who had been carried away Prifoners of War 

 by thofe Caribbians^ employed the mediation of the French^ 

 they were eafily enlarged and put into the hands of the French^ 

 who gave the Caribbians in exchange for them, fome of thofe 

 trifles which they highly value, or haply an Iron wedge, or 

 fome fuch neceflary tool : Nay, upon the preferring them with 

 fome of thofe things they have delivered up fome of the Aron- 



