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fo ordered, but he muft alfo endure it without exprefling the 

 leaft femiment of pain : Their perfwafion is that the more ap* 

 parent the Fathers patience (hall be in thefe tryals, the more ' 

 recommendable {hall be the valour of his Son •-> but this noble 

 blood muft not be fuffered to fall to the ground , fince the efTu- 

 fion thereof contributes fo much to future courage ^ it is there- 

 fore carefully fav'd to rub the childs face withal!, out of an 

 imagination he will be the more generous : This is alfo done in 

 (bme parts towards the Daughters 5 for though they are not 

 to be in their military engagements, as the Amazons hereto- 

 fore were, yet do they go to the Wars with their Husbands, to 

 provide Vi&uals for them, and look to their Veflels while they 

 are engaged with the Enemy. 



Afloon as the Children are born, the Mothers make their 

 foreheads fiat, and prefs them fo that there is a defcent back- 

 wards, for befides that that form of the forehead is accounted 

 one of the principal pieces of beauty among them, they affirm, 

 that it facilitates their (hooting up to the top of a tree (land- 

 ing at the foot of it, wherein they are extreamly expert as be-* 

 ing brought up to it from their child-hood. 



They do not fwathe their children at all, but leave them at 

 liberty to turn themfelves which way they will in their little 

 AmacS) or Beds of Cotton, or upon little Couches of Banana' 

 leaves laid on the ground in fome corner of their Huts , and , 

 yet their limbs are not any way diftorted, but the whole body 

 Pirard,/w.i i s perfectly well-map'd. Thofe who have liv'd among the 

 D e Lei 73 Maldivefes and the Tofinambeus, affirm the fame thing of the 

 c * * 7 * children of thofe people, though they never bind them up in 

 Vkt.'wthe any thing, no more then the Caribbians are. The Lacedtfmo- 

 Life of Ly- mans heretofore did the like. 



curgus. They do not impofe Names on their children as foon as they 



are born, but after twelve or fifteen days, and then they call 

 a Man and a Woman, who ftand as it were for Godfather and 

 Godmother, and make holes in the child's ears, the under-lip, 

 and the fpace between the noftrils, and put a thred through, 

 that there may be places to hang Pendants : But if they con- 

 ceive the children too weak to endure the boring of thole 

 parts, they defer that ceremony till they are grown ftronger. 



Moft of the Names the Caribbians give their children, are 

 deriv'd from their Anceftors, or from divers Trees which 

 grow in their Iflands, or elfe from fome accident that happen'd 

 to the Father while his Wife was with child, or during the 

 time of his own lying in : Thus ones Daughter, in the Illand 

 of Dominico^ was called Qtdiem-banna^ that is to fay, the leaf 

 of the wild Vine y which is a Tree whereof we have given a 

 defeription in its proper place. Another of the fame Hland, 

 having been at S. Chriftophers whilft his Wife was with child, 

 and having there feen the French General, nam'd the child he 



