Cap. XXL The Caribby-4 (lands. 319 



Caribbies : They rub the bodies of their Children with the De £ery,c 

 blood of thofe raiferable Victims, to animate them to future. *5- 

 Cruelties : He who had been the Executioner of the Captive C^X 

 caus'd himfelf to be mangled and flahYd , and cut in feveral 

 parts of the body, as a Trophey of Valour, and a mark of 

 Glory : And what is yet fuperlatively ftrange, is, That thole 

 Barbarians beftowing their Daughters for Wives on thofe Ene- 

 mies, asfoon as they fall into their hands, when they come to 

 cut them in pieces, the Wife her felf eats firfy, if it be poffible, 

 of the flefti of her Husband 5 and if it happen that (he hath 

 any Children by him, they are ferv'd in the like manner, kill'd, 

 rofted , and eaten $ fomnrnes as foon as they come into the 

 World. The like Barbarifm hath fomtirnes been obferv'd in GarcilaC l t 

 ieveral Provinces of Pern. l2 « 



Divers other barbarous Nations do alfo exceed the Caribbians 

 in their inhumanity $ but above all , the Inhabitants of the 

 Country of Antis are more cruel then Tygers : If it happens jyy e u 

 that by right of War or otherwife, they make a Prifoner, and 

 that they know him to be a perfon of fmall account, they im- 

 mediately quarter him , and beftow the Members on their 

 Friends or Servants , that they may eat them if they pleafe, 

 or fell them in the Shambles but if he be a perfon of quality, 

 the chiefeft among them meet together, with their Wives and 

 Children, to be prefent at his death .* Then thefe unmerciful 

 people having ftrip'd him, fatten him ftark naked to a pott, 

 and cut and llafh him all over the body with a fort of Knives 

 and Rafours made of a certain Stone, fuch as may be Flint S In 

 this cruel Execution they do not prelently difmember him, but 

 they only take the flelh from the parts which have moft, as the 

 calf of the Leg, the Thighs, the Buttock?, and the Arms that 

 done, ihey all pell-mell, Men, Women, and Children, dye 

 themfelves with the blood of that wretched perfon , and not, 

 fraying for the rotting or boyling of the Flefti they had taken 

 away, they devour it like Co many Cormorants, or rather 

 fwallow it down without any chewing.* Thus the wretch fees 

 himfelf eaten alive, and buried in the bellies of his Enemies : 

 The Women adding yet fomwhat to the cruelty of the Men, * 

 though exceffively barbarous and inhumane , rub the ends of 

 their Breafts with the blood of the Patient, that fo their Chil- 

 dren may luck it in with their Milk. And if thefe inhumane 

 Executioners have obferv'd, that amidft all the torments they 

 put the miferable deceas'd perfon to, he exprefs'd the leaft fence 

 of pain, either in his countenance or other parts of his body j 

 or that he fo much as groan d or figh'd, then they break his 

 bones , after they have eaten the flelh about them , and caft 

 them into fome natty place, or into a River, with an extream 

 contempt. 



Thus alfo do Ieveral other Nations cruelly infult over the 

 U u wretched 



