The Hijlory of Book II. ; 



•and would have made them bigger 5 had it not been for the 

 bones, in feveral parts of the body : Then they caft into his 

 fmarting wounds that (harp kind of Spice which the Caribbians 

 call Vyman : Others diverted themfelvesin {hooting Arrows at 

 the poor Patient , and every one took a pleafure in tormenting 

 him 5 but he fuffer'd with the fame countenance, and expref- 

 fed not the leaft fentiment of pain : After they had made (port 

 thus along time with the poor wretch, at laft growing weary 

 of infulting , and out-brav'd by his conftancy , which feem'd 

 ftill the fome, one of them came and at one blow difpatch'd 

 him with his Club. This is the Treatment which the Caribbi- 

 ans made heretofore to their Prifoners of War 5 but now they 

 think it enough to put them to a fpeedy death, as we have al- 

 ready reprefented. 



As foon as this unfortunate perfon is thus laid dead upon trie 

 place, the young men take the body, and having waGYd it cut 

 it in pieces, and then boyl fome part, and broil fome upon 

 wooden Frames, made for that purpofe, like Gridirons When 

 this deteftable Dim is ready , and feafon'd according to their 

 palates, they divide it into fo many parts as there are perfons 

 prefent, and joyfully devour it, thinking that the World can- 

 not afford any other repaft equally delicious : The Women lick 

 the very (ticks on which the fat of the Arouague dropp'd 5 

 which proceeds not fo much from the delicioufhefs they find in 

 that kind of fuftenance , and that fat, as from the exceflive 

 pleafure they conceive in being reveng'd in that manner of their 

 chiefeft Enemies. 



But as they would be extreamly troubled that the enraged 

 hatred they bear the Arouagues fhould ever end, fo do they 

 make it their main endeavour to foment and heighten it: thence 

 it comes, that while this poor Carcafs is a dreffing, they care- 

 fully gather and fave all the fat that comes from it 5 not to put 

 into Medicines, as Chirurgeonsfometimes do 5 or to make wild- 

 fire of it, to fet their Enemies houfes on fire, as theTartars do$ 

 but they gather together that fat to be afterwards diftributed 

 among the chiefeft of them, who carefully keep it in little 

 Gourds, to pour fome few drops thereof into their Sauces at 

 their folemn Entertainments, fo to perpetuate, as much as lies 

 in their power, the motive of their Revenge. 



I muft needs acknowledge, the Sun would have more reafbn 

 to withdraw himfelf from thefe Barbarians, than to be prefent 

 at fuch deteftable Solemnities } but it would be requifite that 

 he withdrew himfelf at the fame time from moft of the Coun- 

 tries of America, nay from fome parts of Afric J^and A/ia 3 where 

 the like and worfe cruelties are daily exercis'd : For inftance, 

 the Tapnambous make in a manner the fame treatment to their 

 prifoners, as the Caribbians do to th^m 3 but they add thereto 

 divers expreffions of barbarifm, which are not to be feen in the 



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