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• mtfters in paUiating onnaintainingfalfities: wherein ouf Author 
noresthemtobefo ftubborn, that they will rather fuffer them- 
fel ves to be torcur'd to death , than confefs the truth. On which 
occafion, 'tis here related, that a Youth endured a very fliarp 
whipping with thorny rodds, together with a rubbing of his 
wounds with Salt and Limon-juice, and a burning of the middle 
of his fingers and toes with a lighted match, rather than that he 
would confefs the thing he was axufedof. 
Touching their (fVy^//, and Civil Government, the particulars 
thereof are very largely defcribed here, but are befides our pur- 
p3fe. It feenis, (to touch fo much in fliort,) that they , upon oc- 
cafion, by their Priefls confult their Idol, call'd OhoffrmySumman^ 
ovFitifo^ and receive Anfv\'ers from him ; that they facrifice to 
hifflj keep Holy days in honor of him, and eat and drink certain 
things in his name. They have a Kwgov^v them, who yet may 
decree nothing but by the approbation and confent of the chief 
perfons of the Nation* He proceeds in the adminiftratioft of Ju- 
ftice not according to any written Laws, but received Cuftome, 
puniftiing Murther and Theft with death, as alfo fuch Adultery as 
is committed by aConcubinj a true wife being, in that cafe, re- 
pudiated. Jn their Warrs they ufe Mufquets, Bows and Arrows, 
Zables, Javelins ; and for their Trumpets they employ great Ele- 
faats-teech. They poifon their darts with a preparation of Cro- 
codils-gall. 
As to their Oeconomy, our Author relates their manner of 
Building, HouflioldftufF, Wafliings, Cloathing, Painting, Meat and 
Drink, Marriage, Weddings, Education of Children. 'Tis fome^ 
what ftrange, that they relifli their Fifli moft, when fuch of them as 
are unfalted have lay n feveral dayes expofed to the Sun, and arebe- 
CDmeftinking. Elefants-flelh is alfo a great delicacy amongft them, 
even af er it has been dead many days,and ftinks like carrion. Their 
drink is Water, Palm- wine, and Bier, which latter they make of the 
great Millet and Water; after they have malted their Millet, by 
infufing it inwater, and fo letting it (hoot or fprour, and then ex- 
pofingittothe Sun to dry. They are exceedingly addifted to 
drink French Brandy, in comparifbn of which they defpife all 
ftrong waters made of Corn, and all that fort which comes hither 
fro\x\i\\t Barbados, cd\VdKtU'deviL 
Difcourfingof their Marriages and Weddings, he taketh notice 
of an Herb, (which yet he names not) bearing a yellow flower , 
which is Ihut in the morning and the whole day, but opens about 
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