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firm, that the Yncas, Kings of Per//, fubdued divers Provinces, Garcilaf 

 the Inhabitants whereof thought no Law fo rigorous and infup- Com > Roja!. 

 portable, among all thofe which the faid victorious Princes im- 

 pofed on them, as thofe which prohibited the eating of mans 

 flefti, fomuch were they addicted to that execrable diet 3 for 

 not flaying till he whom they had mortally wounded, had gi- 

 ven up the ghoft, they drunk off the blood which iflued out of 

 his wound 5 and they did the like when they cut him up into 

 quarters, greedily lucking it, left a drop mould be loft : They Garcil./. 7. 

 had publick Shambles for the felling of mans flefti, whereof c. 17. Rou- 

 they took pieces and mine'd them very fmall, and of the en- Iox, Baro,eSf 

 trails they made puddings and faucages : And particularly the Rubriqucs 

 Cheriganes, or Cbirrhuanes, a people inhabiting the Mountains, " * y^*" 

 had fo ftrangeand foinfatiable an appetite to mans fleftij that ™' t e 

 they gluttonoufly eat it raw,not fparing their neereft Relations Ct 

 when they dyed : The fame thing is at this day affirmed of the 

 Tapujies, a certain other oriental Nation and Herodotus afiiires Lib. 3. 

 us of fuch a thing in his time 5 nay it is averred, that the peo- 

 ple of Java are fo barbarous and fo great lovers of that abo- Vin .kBIanc 

 minable nourishment, that, to fatisfie their damnable appetite, u c# 

 they deprive their Parents of their lives, and tofs the pieces of 

 their flefti one to another like balls, to fee who (hall have moft 

 of them * The Amures, a people o(Brafil 3 are yet more inhu- 

 mane and deteftable $ fo that we need not feign Saturnes de- 

 vouring their own children 5 for if we may credit Hiftorians, DeLaetsH;- 

 thefe Barbarians eat in effect their own Children, member after y* or J" ? / Amc - 

 metnber, and fometimes opening the wombs of great belly'd 

 women, they take out the fruit thereof, which they immedi- 

 ately devour, longing fo ftrangely after the flefti of their own 

 fpecies, that they go a hunting of men, as they do beafts, and 

 having taken them they tear them in pieces, and devour them 

 after a cruel and unmerciful manner. 



By thefe examples it is fufficiently apparent, that our Canni- 

 bah are not fo much Cannibals, that is, Eaters of men, though 

 they have the name particularly attributed to them, as many 

 other favage Nations $ and it were an eafie matter to find yet 

 clfewhere certain difcoveries of Barbarifm anfwerable to that 

 of our CaribbianCannibals 3 nay fuch as far exceeds theirs : But 

 we have done enough, let us draw the Curtains on thefe hor- 

 rours, and leaving the Cannibals of all other Nations, return 

 to thofe of the Caribbies, to divert our eyes, wearied with be- 

 holding fo many inhumanities and bloudy Tragedies, by a pro- 

 ject of their Marriages. 



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