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manners. Some however of them do not change ; and 
these tell the others that the cause of their misfortune, 
sickness, and of the war carried on against them by- 
Christians, arises from their no longer living after the 
manner of Caribs. 
Of their Religion and their idea of the Creation of 
the World and the Heavens. Though they are of very 
fickle character, and are very flighty and inconstant 
in all their undertakings, yet in matters of religion they, 
after the manner of heretics, are obstinately attached 
to their Chemeens and all their other superstitions, 
and nothing one can tell them to prove to them that 
they are being deceived by the devil, is able to con- 
vince them ; like the Calvinists, they have no priest, 
altar, or sacrifices. This is peculiar to them, I think, 
alone of all heathens. By their brutal passions, barba- 
rous customs, and bestial lives, they have smothered all 
such knowledge and light as Nature gives them of the 
Divinity. I would not believe this myself were it not 
that I see it every day, and though they have been 
preached to for the last twenty years they will not 
believe, nor will they recognise their Creator, the source 
of all good. They fear the Devil, whom they call 
MABOIA ; but they render him no worship. Judging 
from their fables, we have reason to believe that the 
light of the Evangelists must have been revealed 
to them formerly. LoUQUO was the first man and 
a Carib. He was not made of any other body ; he 
descended from the sky and lived a long time on 
earth. He had a large nostril, from which, as also 
from an incision in his thighs, he produced the first 
men. A great many things took place during his life 
