the South-Sea 



perience they have occafion for throughout the Year. They 

 divide it into 52 Parts, for every Week in the Year, and 

 the Father and Mother, who alone know the Secret, go 

 every Week to bring out a Week's Allowance. There is 

 no doubt but thefe People, being drove to defpair by the 

 Hardnefs of the Spanijh Domination, only wifli for an Op- 

 portunity to fliake it off. Do not imagine, faid the Scythian: 

 to Alexander the Great, that thofe you conquer can love you i 

 there is never any AffeSiion between the Mafter and the Slave , 

 the Right of making War ever continues in the midft of 

 Peace, Nay, from Time to Time they make fome At- 

 tempts at Cujco, where they are the main Part of the City, 

 but it being exprefly forbidden tliem to carry Arms, with- 

 out a particular Licence, and being befides nothing coura- 

 geous, the Spaniards know how to appeafe them with 

 Threats, and to amufe them with fair Promifes. Herrera, 

 to this Purpofe, Ann. 1551. fays thus, It was ordain d 

 that no Indian Jhould wear Arms, and that if any prime Man 

 wore them, it Jhould be with Leave ; and this was under- 

 flood of Sword and Dagger ; becaufe being much addicted 

 to Drunkenness, many were kiWd and wounded, without any 

 Check, to their own great Detriment. 



Befides, the Spanijh Party is fomewhat reinforced, by 

 the great Number of Black Slaves they yearly have brought 

 them from Guinea and Angola, by the way of Portobelb 

 and Yanama, where are the Factories of the Contra&ors. 

 The Reafon is, that not being permitted to keep the Indian: 

 asSlaves,they have lefs Regard for them than for the Blacks, 

 who coft them much Money, and whofe Number is the 

 greateft Part of their Wealth and Grandeur. Thofe Blacks 

 being fenfible of the Aflfe&ion of their Mafters, imitate 

 their Behaviour in refpeft of the Indians, and take upon 

 ' them an Afcendant over them, which oecafions an impla- 

 cable Hatred betwixt the two Nations. The Laws of the 

 Kingdom have alfo provided, that there fliould be no Al- 

 liances between them, for the Black Men and Women are 

 exprefly forbid having any Carnal Comnmnicatioa with 



