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Wretched remainders of their murthered Enemies, andexercife 

 their inhumane revenge and barbarous animofity on that which 

 hath no feeling thereof : Thus fome Inhabitants of Florida^ to 

 fatiate their brutality, hang up in their houfes, and carry about 

 DeLa.ct.bifl. them, the skins and hair of their Enemies 5 the Virginians wear 

 of Amenca. a .j, out tne j r nec k s a dry'd hand 3 fome Savages of New-Spain. 



hang about fome part of their bodies , after the manner of a 

 Medal, a piece of their flefh whom they had maffacred : The 

 Somedo hifi. Lords of the Ifland by the French call'd Belle-Ijle neer China,, 

 c 2*' W€ar a ^ rown m ade up of Deaths-heads, hideoufly difpos'd, 

 and interlac'd with filk firings : The Chinefes make drinking- 

 cups of the Spaniards fkuls whom they have kill'd,as heretofore 

 iib, 4. the Scythians were wont to do with their Enemies, as Herodo- 

 tus affirms: The Canadians and the Mexicans dance on their 

 Feftival days, wearing about them the fkins of thofe whom they 

 Garcil. 1.6. had fley'd and eaten .* The Huancas } an ancient Nation of Peru, 

 cio. made Drums of fuch fkins, affirming, that when they were bea- 

 ten they had a fecret virtue to make thofe who fought againft 

 them to run away. . 



From all this Difcourfe it may be deduced, to what degree of 

 rage and fury Hatred and the defire of Revenge may afcend : 

 And in thefe Examples there are are many circumftances more 

 bloody, and fome more deteftable difcoveries of cruelty and 

 barbarifrrij then there are in the treatfr ent which our Cannibals 

 make to their Prifonersof W ar , t he Aromgues. 



But to make this treatment appear the lefs horrid, it were 

 eafie to bring on the Stage divers Nations, who befidcs that fu- 

 rious animofity, and that unquenchable thi-il of Revenge, do 

 further difcover a barbarous and infatiable gluttony, and anab- 

 lolutely brutifh paffion of feeding on Mans flefh. 



And in the firft place, whereas our Cannibals ordinarily feed 

 only upon the Arouagms^ their irreconcileable Enemies, fparing 

 the Prifoners they take of any other Nation, fome Floridians^ 

 who live neer the Streight of Bahama, cruelly devour all the 

 Strangers they caii get into their hands,what Nation foever they 

 be of 5 fo that if any people land in their Country, and that 

 they chance to be the ftronger party 5 they.muft infallibly expecl: 

 to be their next days Commons.* They think Mans flefh 

 extreamly delicate, from what part foever of the Body it be ta- 

 ken ■> but they affirm, that 'the • fble of the foot is the moft deli- 

 cious bit of any > thence it comes, that the faid part is ordina- 

 rily ferv'd up to their Carlin, who is their Lord, whereas anci- 

 Bergeron's ently theTartars cut off the breath of young Maids, and refer- 

 Irettifeof ved them for their chief Commanders, whole ordinary food 

 the Tartars. t J le y were . To thefe Barbarians we may add thofe of the Pro- 

 Ga cil de vince of Hafcala, and of the Region of the City of Darien in 

 Laet & Neve-Spain, who did eat not only the flefh of their Enemies, 

 JLinfcot. but aifo that of their own Country-men .* And Hiftorians af- 

 firm, 



