Cap.XXM. TfoCaribby-inands. 



had at his return, General, upon remembrance of the kind en- 

 tertainment he had received at the General's. . : •' 



Something of this kind is alfo obferv 5 d among other Nati- 

 ons : For inftance, the Canadians borrow Names from Fifties Lefcarboc. 

 and Rivers : The Virginians and Brazilians take theirs from the 

 firft thing they think of, as from Bows, Arrows, living Crea- 

 tures, Trees, Plants : The Grand Seignors of Turkey ate wont 

 to give to the Eunuchs who keep their Wives, the Names of 

 the faireft Flowers 5 to the end that thofe Women calling 

 them by the fame Names, there ftiould proceed nothing out 

 of their mouths but what were decent and delightful: The 

 Romans^ as may be feen in Plutarch, fometimes took their 

 Names from Fifties, fometimes from their Country-divertiie- 

 ment&, fometimes from the marks and imperfections of their 

 bodies, and fometimes from their mod Heroick Actions, in 

 imitation of the Greeks : Nay the Holy Scriptures furnifli us 

 with abundance of examples of Names taken from divers ac- 

 cidents, as among others thofe of Benoni 0 Pharez, Icabod, and 

 the like. 



The Names which the Caribbians impofe on their male chil- 

 dren fome time after their birth, are not to be continue! while 

 they live 5 for they change their Names when they come to 

 the age requifite to be receiv'd into the number of Souldiers : 

 and when they have behav'd themfelves valiantly in the Wars, 

 and have kill'd one of the chief Commanders of the Arok- 

 agues , they afi'ume his Name, as a mark of Honour : Which 

 Cuftom relates fomewhat to what was practise! among the Ro- 

 mans after their Victories, when they affum'd tothemfelves 

 the Names of the Nations whom they had fubdu'd 3 as may be 

 inftane'd in Scipio Africanus, and divers others whom we need 

 not cite. Thefe victorious Caribbians have alfo, in their Wines 

 or publick rejoycing days, fome particular perfon chofen to 

 give them a new Name, to whom they fay, after they have 

 taken a fufficient dofe of drink, Teticleey atec 3 that is, 1 would 

 he named) name me 5 whofe defire the other prefently iatisfies : 

 and in requital he receives fome Prefent, fuch as may be a knife, 

 or a grain of Chryftal, or fome other trifle much elteem'd 

 among them. 



The Caribbian Women fuckle their own children, and are 

 very good Nurfes and indulgent Mothers, having all the care 

 imaginable to bring them up 5 nay when their neighbours are 

 gone to the wars they look to their Children. AH the Peruvian Garcii. &> 

 and the Canadian women, and molt of the Weft-Indians are Lefcarbot. 

 alfo their own Nurfes : And in the Eali- Indies , in the Kingdom 

 of Tranftana and the Maldivos, the women, of what quality *f Blanc & 

 foever they be of, are obliged to fuckle their own Children : Pirarc ** 

 And Tacitus affirms, that all Mothers nurs'd their own Children DeMorGer- 

 a mong the ancient Germans: Nay it is reported that hereto- man. 



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