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Chriftians, who receive them in exchange for other 

 commodities, and make them flaves, which is too fre- 

 quently pradtifed. But thefe kind of flaves are only for 

 fhew and parade, as they abfolutely refufe to work, and 

 if at all ill-treated, or efpecially if beaten, they pine and 

 languifh like caged turtks, even refufing food, till by af- 

 fliiftion and want they are exhaufted, and finally expire. 



The Indians always fight their battles by midnight : 

 indeed their contefts refemble more a fiege than a battle, 

 as thefe broils confift only in furrounding the hamlets of 

 their enemies while they are afleep, making prifoners of 

 the women, boys, and girls, while they ftioot the men 

 with poifoned arrows, or with their clubs or apootoos 

 divide their fcuUs when they come to clofe quarters ; 

 they alfo fcalp their male prifoners, bring home their 

 hair, and even their bones, as trophies of war, and 

 prefents to their wives, unlefs they intend to fell them 

 to the Europeans at Paramaribo. In their open ren- 

 counters, which happen very feldom, the bows and 

 barbed arrows are their principal weapons of offence ; 

 with thefe they often kill at the diftance of fixty paces ; 

 nay, the fwiftefi: bird in its flight, provided it has the 

 magnitude of a crow, feldom efcapes them. In truth, 

 fuch is the fkill of thefe people at thefe manly exercifes, 

 that the bell archers at Creffy, PoicSliers, and Agincourtj 

 mufi: have yielded to their fuperiority. 



Vol. I. 



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