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A57484	The history of the Caribby-islands, viz, Barbados, St Christophers, St Vincents, Martinico, Dominico, Barbouthos, Monserrat, Mevis, Antego, &c in all XXVIII in two books : the first containing the natural, the second, the moral history of those islands : illustrated with several pieces of sculpture representing the most considerable rarities therein described : with a Caribbian vocabulary / rendred into English by John Davies ...; Histoire naturelle et morale des iles Antilles de l'Amerique. English	Rochefort, César de, b. 1605.; Davies, John, 1625-1693.; Breton, Raymond, 1609-1679.	1666 (1666)	Wing R1740; ESTC R16877	340,702	386

confederates These Apalachites make it their boast that they had propagated certain Colonies a great way into Mexico And they show to this day a great Road by land by which they affirm that their Forces march'd into those parts The Inhabitants of the Country upon their arrival gave them the name of Tlatuici which signifies Mountaineers or High-Landers for they were more hardy and more generous than they They planted themselves in a quarter like that from which they came scituate at the foot of the Mountains in a fertile soil where they built a City as neer as they could like that which they had left behind them whereof they are possess'd to this day They are so united there by inter-marriages and other bonds of peace that they make up but one people with them nor indeed could they well be discern'd one from the other if they had not retain'd several words of their originary language which is the only observable difference between them After the Apalachites had planted this Colony the Cofachites who liv'd more towards the north of America in a fenny and somewhat barren Country and who had continu'd till then in good correspondence with them knowing that they were then far from their best and most valiant men took an advantageous opportunity to fall upon their Neighbours the Apalachites and to force them out of their habitations or at least to participate with them of the land where they had setled themselves after they should become Masters thereof This design having been carried on very cunningly among the chiefest of the Cofachites they afterwards publish'd it in all their Villages and got it approv'd by all the heads of Families who instead of minding the business of Husbandry and setting things in order for the sowing of Corn at the beginning of the Spring as they were wont to do other years prepar'd their Bows Arrows and Clubs and having set their habitations on fire and furnish'd themselves with some little provisions out of what was left of the precedent Winter they took the field with their wives and children and all the little baggage they had with a resolution either to conquer or dye since they had cut off all hopes of returning to a place which they had destroy'd and despoil'd of all manner of conveniences In this equipage they in a short time got to the frontiers of their Neighbours The Apalachites who thought of nothing less than having an enemy so neer them were then very busie about the planting of their Mais and the roots from which they derive their ordinary sustenance Those who liv'd about the great Lake at the foot of the Mountains which they call in their Language Theomi having perceiv'd this powerful Army ready to fall on them immediately made their retreat into the neighbouring Mountains and left their villages and cattel to the disposal of the enemy thence they took their march through the woods to carry intelligence of this erruption to the Cities which are in the vallies among the first mountains where resided the Paracoussis who is the King of the Country with all the considerable forces thereof Upon this so unexpected news the said Prince while he was making his preparations to go against the Enemy posted those who were most in a readiness for the expedition in the Avenues of the mountains and placed Ambuscadoes in several parts of the great Forests which lye between the great Lake and the Mountains and through which there was a necessity of passing to get into that pleasant and spacious valley which is above sixty leagues in length and about ten in bredth where are the habitations of the chiefest Inhabitants of the Country and the most considerable Cities in the Kingdom While the Cofachites were busie about the plundering and pillaging the houses they had found neer the great Lake the Apalachites had the opportunity to prepare themselves for the reception of them But the former instead of taking the ordinary Roads and ways which led to the flat Country which as we said lie between the Mountains having left their Wives and Children neer the great Lake under the guard of some Forces they had drawn off from the main Body and being guided by some of the Apalachites whom they had surprized fishing in the great Lake cross'd through the woods and made their way over mountains and precipices over and through which the Camels could hardly have pass'd and by that means got into the heart and centre of the Country and found themselves of a sudden in a Province called that of the Amanites They without any resistance surpriz'd the chiefest places of it wherein they found to guard them only Women Children and some old men such as were not able to follow their King who with his people lay expecting the Enemy at the ordinary descents which led into the Country The Cofachites perceiving that their design had prov'd so successful and that there was a great likelihood that in a short time they should become Masters of the whole Country since they had met with so good fortune immediately upon their first appearance prosecuted their conquests further and having Cities for their retreat where they had left good strong Garrisons they marched towards the King of Apalacha with a resolution either to fight him or at least oblige him to allow them the quiet possession of some part of the Country The Apalachite was extreamly surpriz'd when he understood that the Enemy whom he had all this while expected on the Frontiers and at the known avenues of the Country had already possess'd himself of a Province that lay in the centre of his Dominions and that he had left Garrisons in the Cities and most considerable places thereof However being a magnanimous and gallant Prince he would try whether the chance of Arms would prove as favourable to him as he thought his cause good and just he thereupon came down with his people out of the Mountains where he had encamped himself and having encourag'd those that were about him to do their utmost he confidently set upon the van-guard of the Cofachites which was come out to observe his motion having on both sides spent all their arrows they came to a close fight and having taken their Clubs there was a great slaughter in both Armies till that night having separated them the Cofachites observ'd that they had lost a great number of theirs in the engagement and found that they had to do with a people that behav'd themselves more valiantly than they had imagined to themselves they would have done and consequently that their best course would be to enter into a friendly treaty with them rather than venture another hazard of their Forces in a strange Country Upon this they resolv'd that the next morning they would send Embassadours to the King of the Apalachites with certain Overtures of Peace and in case of a refusal dissembling the loss they had receiv'd in the former Engagement to declare

look over-earnestly upon them and laugh at their nakedness they are wont to say to them Friends you are to look on us only between both the eyes a vertue worthy admiration in a people that go naked and are as barbarous as these It is related of Captain Baron that in one of the incursions made by him and his party into the Island of Montserrat then possest by the English he made great waste in the Plantations that lay neerest to the Sea so that he carried a great booty and that among the Prisoners there being a young Gentlewoman Wife to one of the Officers of the Island he caused her to be brought to one of his houses in Dominico this Gentlewoman being big with child when she was carried away was very carefully attended during the time of her lying in by the Savage women of the same Island And though she liv'd there a good while after among them neither Captain Baron nor any other ever touched her a great example of reservedness in such people Yet must it be acknowledged that some of them have since degenerated from that chastity and many other vertues of their Ancestors But we must withall make this acknowledgment that the Europaeans by their pernicious examples and the unchristian-like treatment they have us'd towards them basely deceiving them perfidiously upon all occasions breaking their promises with them unmercifully rifling and burning their houses and villages and ravishing and debauching their Wives and Daughters have taught them to the perpetual infamy of the Christian name dissimulation lying treachery perfidiousness luxury and several other vices which were unknown in those parts before they had any Commerce with them But as to other concerns these Savages are remarkable for their civility and courtesie beyond what can be imagined in Savages Not but that there are some Caribbians very brutish and unreasonable but for the greater part of them their judgment and docility is observable upon many occasions and those who have conversed long with them have found several experiences of their fair dealing gratitude friendship and generosity But of this we shall speak more particularly in the Chapter where we shall treat of their Reception of such Strangers as come to visit them They are also great lovers of cleanliness a thing extraordinary among Savages and have such an aversion for all nastiness that if one should ease himself in their Gardens where their Cassava and Potatoes are planted they will presently forsake them and not make use of any thing growing therein Of this their neatness in this and other things we shall have occasion to say more in the Chapter Of their Habitations and their Repasts CHAP. XII Of the natural simplicity of the Caribbians ADmiration being the Daughter of Ignorance we are not to think it strange that the Caribbians who have so little knowledge of those excellent things which study and experience have made familiar amongst civiliz'd Nations should be so much astonish'd when they meet with any thing whereof the cause is unknown to them and that they should be brought up in so great simplicity that it might be taken in most of these poor people for a brutish stupidity This simplicity is remarkable among other things in the extraordinary fear they conceive at the sight of Firearms which they look on with a strange admiration but their astonishment is greatest at Fire-locks much beyond what they have for great Guns and Muskets because they see Fire put to them but for Fire-locks they are not able to conceive how it is possible they should take Fire and so they believe it is the evil Spirit Maboya who does that Office But this fear and astonishment is common to them with divers other Savages who have not found any thing so strange in their encounters with the Europaeans as those Arms which spit Fire and at so great a distance wound and kill those whom they meet with This was it together with the Prodigy of seeing Men fighting on Horseback which principally made the Peruvians think the Spaniards to be Gods and occasioned their submission to them with less resistance It is reported also that the Arabians who make Incursions along the River Jordan and should be more accustomed to War are not free from this fear and astonishment Among the several discoveries of the simplicity of our Caribbians we shall here set down two very considerable ones When there happens an Eclipse of the Moon they believe that Maboya eats her and they dance all night making a noise with Gourds wherein there are many small Pebbles And when they smell any thing of ill scent they are wont to say Maboya cayeu eu that is The Devil is here Caima Loary Let us be gone because of him or for fear of him Nay they attribute the name of Maboya or Devil to certain Plants of ill scent such as may be Mushrooms and to whatever is apt to put them into any fright Some years since the greatest part of the Caribbians were perswaded that Gun-powder was the Seed of some Herb nay there were those who desir'd some of it to sow in their Gardens nay some were so obstinate that though disswaded from it they put it into the ground out of a perswasion that it would bring forth somwhat as well as other Seeds Yet was not this Imagination so gross as those of certain Brutes of Guinny who the first time they saw Europaeans thought the Commodities they brought them such as Linnen Cloathes Knives and Fire-arms grew on the Earth so prepar'd as the Fruits did on Trees and that there was no more to be done than to gather them That certainly is not so pardonable a piece of simplicity as that of the Caribbians And we may further alledg to excuse that simplicity or at least to render it the more supportable the stupidity of those Inhabitants of America who upon the first Discovery of the New-World imagin'd that the Horse and the Rider made up one Creature like the imaginary Centaurs of the Poets And that of those others who after they were subdu'd coming to desire peace and pardon of the Men and to bring them Gold and Provisions went and made the same Presents to the Horses with a Speech much like that which they had made to the Men interpreting the neighing of those Creatures for a Language of composition and truce And to conclude these instances we shall add only the childish sottishness of those same Indians of America who roundly believ'd that the Letters which the Spaniards sent one to another were certain Messengers and Spies speaking and seeing and discovering the most secret actions and upon this perswasion fearing one day the eye and tongue of one of these Letters they hid it under a stone that they might freely eat some Melons of their Masters In fine there will be no cause to think it so strange that the Caribbians should take Gun-powder a thing absolutely unknown to them for

some seed that might be sown when there were some people living in France whose habitations being at a great distance from the places where Salt was made thought out of a like imagination that it was gather'd in Gardens It hapned also not many years since that a Woman an Inhabitant of Martinico having sent several pounds of Caret-shells and Tobacco to a She-Merchant of S. Malo's when this latter had put off the Commodity she gave an account thereof to her Correspondent at Martinico and advis'd to plant Carets in her Garden rather then Tobacco for that the former was much dearer in France and that there was no danger of its rotting in the Ship as there was of Tobacco But let us consider what there is yet to be said concerning the natural simplicity of our Savages of the Caribbies It is a pleasant thing to consider that these poor people should be so simple as that though they have many places fit for the making of Salt yet dare they not make use of it as accounting Salt extreamly prejudicial to health and the preservation of life thence it proceeds that they never either eat of it or season their meat therewith and when at any time they see our people make use of it they say to them out of a compassion worthy compassion Compere thou hastenest thy own death But instead of Salt they season all their messes with Pyman or American Pepper Nor is there any Swines-flesh eaten among them which they call Coincoin and Bouïrokou nor yet Tortoise or as some call them Turtles which they call Catallou though there be abundance of those Creatures in their Country Of this their abstinence they give the simplest reasons imaginable For as to the Swine they are afraid to taste of it lest they should have small eyes like those of that Beast now in their judgment it is the greatest of all deformities to have small eyes and yet there are few among them but have them such As for the Tortoise the reason of their abstinence from that is no less ridiculous they will not feed on that say they out of a fear lest if they did they should participate of the laziness and stupidity of that Creature Most of those people who are known by the name of Savages are also full of strange and fantastical imaginations concerning the matter and manner of eating For example the Canadians abstain from Muscles only out of a pure fancy but they are such Beasts that they cannot give any reason for that abstinence They will not cast the Beavers bones to the Dogs lest the soul of that Beast should go and tell the other Beavers and so oblige them to leave the Country It is reported also That they do not eat the marrow of the back-bone of any Creature for fear of having any pain in the back The Brasilians eat no hens egges out of an opinion they are poison They abstain also from the flesh of Ducks and that of every Creature that goes slowly as also from Fishes that do not swim swiftly for fear of participating of the slowness of those Creatures The Maldiveses forbear the meat of Tortoises as the Caribbians do but it is because of the conformity there is in their judgment between them and Man The Calecutians and some others who live more towards the East never taste of the flesh of wild Oxen Cows and Bulls out of a perswasion that mens Souls when they depart out of their Bodies go and animate those of the said Beasts In fine certain Peruvians of the Province of Pastu abstain from all kinds of flesh whatsoever and if they are intreated to taste thereof their answer is That they are not Dogs All these Instances are brought upon the Stage to shew that the aversion of the Caribbians to eat Salt Swines-flesh and Tortoises should not cause them to be accounted the most self-will'd and most extravagant of all the Savages Besides the discoveries we have already made of their sottishness and simplicity there is this yet to be added That they are so stupid that they cannot count a number exceeding that of the Fingers of their Hands and the Toes of their Feet which they shew to express the said number what exceeds it surpassing with them all Arithmetick so that they would be very unfit for Bankiers an humour contrary to that of the Chineses who are such excellent Accomptants that in a moment they cast up such Sums as it would trouble us much to do and that with greater certainty But the Caribbians have the priviledge not to be the only Nation in the World which may be reproach'd with this ignorance for it is as great among the people of Madagascar and Guinny to cite no more nay some ancient Historians affirm That there were some people who could not count above five and others who could not exceed four The Inhabitants of Guinny having counted to Ten were wont to set a mark and then begin again Certain Savages of the Septentrional part of America to express a great number which it was impossible for them to name make use of an easie kind of demonstration taking their hair or some sand in their hands a sort of comparisons which are frequent in holy Scripture The Inhabitants of the Caribby-Islands have also their invention to supply the defect of Arithmetick for when they are to go to the Wars and are to be ready at their general Rendezvouz on a certain day they take each of them one after another an equal number of Pease in their solemn Assembly as for instance thrice or four times Ten and some certain number under Ten if need be according as they are resolv'd to advance their Enterprise they put up these Pease in a little Gourd and every morning they take out one and cast it away till there are none left and then the appointed time for their departure is come and the next day they are to be upon their march Another way they have is this every one of them makes so many knots on a little Cord and every day they unty one and when they are come to the last they make ready for the Rendezvouz Somtimes also they take little pieces of Wood upon which they make so many notches as they intend to spend days in their preparation every day they cut off one of the notches and when they come to the last they take their march towards the place appointed The Captains the Boyez and the most ancient among them have more understanding than the common sort and by long experience join'd to what they had receiv'd by tradition from their Ancestors they have acquir'd a gross knowledge of divers Stars whence it comes that they count the Months by Moons and the Years by the Seven Stars taking particular notice of that Constellation Thus some Peruvians regulated their Years by their Harvests Those Inhabitants of Canada who live in the Mountains observe the number of the

in that part of the Meridional America which is known in the Maps under the name of the Province of Guyana or Guayana not far from the Rivers which fall down out of that Province into the Sea The cause of this immortal enmity between our Insulary Caribbians and those people hath been already hinted in the Chapter of the Origine of the Caribbians to wit that those Arouagues have cruelly persecuted the Caribbians of the Continent their Neighbours the Relations of our Islanders and of the same Nation with them and that they have continually warr'd against them to exterminate them or at least to drive them out of their habitations These Arouagnes then are the people whom our Islanders go and find out in their own Country commonly once or twice a year to be reveng'd of them as much as they can And it is to be observ'd on the other side that the Arouagues never make any attempts on the Caribbians of the Islands in the Islands where they live but only stand on the defensive whereas they are sure to have our Savages among them oftner then they wish coasting along as they are wont to do all the other Islands wherein they have Gardens or Colonies though the furthermost of the Caribby-Islands which is Santa-Cruce is distant from the Country of the Arouagues about three hundred Leagues It was Alexanders generosity made him use this expression that a Victory was not to be stollen but Philip of an humour different from his Son thought there was no shame in a Conquest howere it were obtain'd Our Caribbians with most of the old Inhabitants of America are of the same opinion For they carry on all their wars by surprize and think it no dishonour to make their advantage of the night Contrary to the Icaqueses who would think their reputation blasted if coming to the Territories of their Enemies they did not send them notice of their arrival and challenge them to come and receive them armed The Arraucanes next neighbour to the Chili a warlike people and whom the Spaniard hath not been yet able to overcome nay was sometimes worsted by them do much more For when they are to engage against an Enemy they have the War proclaim'd by Heraulds and send this message to them We shall meet thee within so many Moons be ready And so the Yncas the Kings of Peru never undertook any war till they had first advertis'd their Enemies thereof and declar'd it two or three times Whence it may be inferred by the way that L' Escarbot is mistaken in his History of New-France where he affirms that all the West-Indians generally wage their wars by surprize The Caribbians have this imagination that the War they should begin openly would not prosper So that having landed in the Country of the Arouagues if they are discovered before they give the first shock or that a dog as one would say did bark at them thinking it ominous they immediately return to their Vessels and so to their Islands leaving the design to be prosecuted some other time But if they are not discovered they fall upon their Enemies even in their Houses If they cannot easily come at them or find them well fortified in some Houses that have good Palisadoes whence they play upon them with their Arrows with some advantage they are wont to force them out by shooting fire to the Houses with their Arrows at the points whereof they fasten lighted Cotton And these arrows being shot on the roofs which consist of Grass or Palm-leaves they presently set them on fire Thus the Arouagues are forced out of their holes and to fight in the open field or run away When our Savages have thus gotten them into the field they presently shoot away all their arrows which being spent they take their Boutous and do strange things therewith they are in perpetual motion all the time they are fighting that the Enemy may have the less time to observe them Fire-arms especially great Guns which make so great noise and do such execution especially when they are loaden with Nails Chains and other pieces of old Iron have abated much of their courage when they have had to do with Europaeans and makes them afraid to come neer their Ships and Forts But though they do not take Opium to make them less sensible of danger before they go to fight as the Turks and the East-Indians of Cananor do nor yet feed on Tygers and Lions to make themselves more couragious as the people of the Kingdom of Narsinga towards Malabar yet when they fight equally armed with the Arouagues and have begun the Battel especially if they are animated with some good success they are as bold as Lions and will either overcome or die Thus did the warlike Savages of the Country of Carthagena when they were assaulted by the Spaniards for they fell in among them with such fury both men and women that a young maid laid several Spaniards upon the place ere she was killed her self They say also that the Mexicans and Canadians will rather be cut to pieces than taken in fight If the Caribbians can take any one of their Enemies alive they bind him and bring him away captive into their Islands but if any one of theirs fall dead or wounded in the field it would be an eternal and insupportable reproach to them to leave him in the power of the Enemy That consideration makes them break furiously into the midst of the greatest dangers and resolutely make their way through whatever opposes them to retrive the bodies of their Comrades and having gotten them by force from amongst the Enemies they carry them to their Vessels When the fight is over our Savages make their retreat to the Sea-side or into some neighbouring Island and if they have received some considerable loss by the death of some of their Chief Commanders or their most valiant Soldiers they fill the air with dreadful howling and crying before they get into their Vessels and intermixing their tears with the blood of the deceased they mournfully dispose them into their Piragas and accompany them with their regrets and sighs to some of their own Territories But when they have had the Victory they spend not the time in cutting off the heads of their slain Enemies in carrying them in triumph and in taking the skins of those poor bodies to make Standards in their Triumphs as the Canadians do and as heretofore was the custom of the Scythians as Herodotus affirms nay as was that of the ancient Gauls if we believe Livy The Caribbians think it enough to express their joy by outcries over the bodies of the Arouagues and afterwards all along their Coasts as it were to insult over that hateful Country before they leave it But after they have sung in that strange Country some of their triumphal songs they make what haste they can to their Vessels to carry away the rest into the

rejoicing dancing and singing as persons delivered out of the miseries of humane life After the Caribbians have wept over their dead they wash them paint the bodies with a red colour rub their heads with Oil comb their hair thrust up the legs to the thighs and the elbows between the legs and bend down the face upon the hands so that the whole body somewhat resembles the posture of the child in the mothers womb and then they wrap it up in a new bed till all things be ready to dispose it into the ground There have been some Nations who cast the bodies of the dead into Rivers as some Aethiopians did Others cast them to Birds and Dogs as the Parthians the Hircanians and such others who were somewhat of the same humour with Diogenes the Cynick Some others covered them with heaps of stones It is reported of some Inhabitants of Africk that they disposed their dead in earthen Vessels and that others put them into glass Heraclitus who maintained that fire was the principle of all things would have the bodies of the dead burnt that they might return to their first origine And this Custom observed for several ages among the Romans is at this day practised among divers oriental Nations But Cyrus at his death affirmed that there was nothing happier than to be disposed into the bosom of the earth the common Mother of all mankind The first Romans were of the same opinion for they interr'd their dead And of the several ways of disposing of the dead interring is that which is in use among the Caribbians They do not make their Graves according to our fashion but like those of the Turks Brasilians and Canadians that is about four or five foot deep and round like a Tun and at the bottom of it they set a little stool on which the Relations and Friends of the deceased place the body sitting leaving it in the same posture as they put it in immediately after the death of the party They commonly make the grave within the house of the deceased or if they bury him elsewhere they always make a covering over the place where the body is to be laid and after they have let it down into the grave and wrap'd it in an Amac they make a great fire about it and all the more ancient both men and women kneel down The men place themselves behind the women and ever and anon they stroke them with their hands over their arms to incite them to lament and weep Then singing and weeping they all say with a pitiful and lamenting voice Alas why didst thou dye Thou hadst so much good Manioc good Potatoes good Bananas good Ananas Thou wert belov'd in thy Family and they had so great care of thy person Why therefore wouldst thou dye Why wouldst thou dye If the party were a man they add Thou wert so valiant and so generous thou hast overthrown so many Enemies thou hast behav'd thy self gallantly in so many fights thou hast made us eat so many Arouagues Alas who shall now defend us against the Arouagues Why therefore wouldst thou dye And they repeat these expostulations several times over The Topinambous make in a manner the same lamentations over the graves of their dead He is dead say they that brave Huntsman that excellent Fisher man that valiant Warriour that gallant eater of Prisoners that great Destroyer of Portuguez and Margajats that generous Defender of our Country he is departed this world And they often repeat the same expressions The Inhabitants of Guinny do also ask their deceased what obliged them to dye and they rub their Faces with a wisp of straw to try if that will awake them And Busbequius in the Relation of his Embassies into Turkey relates that passing through a Town of Servia named Yagodena he heard the women and young maids lamenting over a deceased person and saying to him in their Funeral songs as if he had been able to hear them What have we deserved and wherein have we been deficient in doing thee service and comforting thee What cause of discontent have we ever given thee that should oblige thee to leave us Which somewhat relates to the complaints of our Caribbians The howlings and expostulations of the Topinambous and the Virginians upon the like occasions last ordinarily a month The people of Aegypt continu'd their lamentations seventy dayes And some Floridians employ old women to bewail the deceased for the space of six months But Lycurgus limited mourning for the dead to eleven days and that is much about the time that our Caribbians took to do the same office before they put the dead body into the ground For during the space of ten dayes or thereabouts twice every day the Relations and the most intimate friends came to visit the deceased party at his grave and they always brought him somewhat to eat and drink saying to him every time Alas why wouldst thou dye why wilt thou not return to life again say not at least that we refused thee wherewithall to live upon for we have brought thee somewhat to eat and drink And after they have made this pleasant exhortation to him as if he should have heard them they left the meat and drink they had brought with them at the brink of the grave till the next visit at which time they put it on his head since he thought it much to stretch forth his hand to take it The Peruvians the Brasilians the Canadians the Inhabitants of Madagascar the Canarians the Tartars the Chineses do also bring certain dishes of meat to the graves of their neerest Relations And not to go to Countries at so great a distance is there not something of this kind done among us for during certain dayes they serve the Effigies of our Kings and Princes newly dead and they are presented with meat and drink as if they were living nay so far as to taste the meats and drinks before them The Caribbians of some Islands do still set meat at the graves of the deceased but they leave them not so long as they did heretofore ere they covered them with earth For after the Funeral lamentation is ended and that the women have wept as much as they can some friend of the deceased laies a plank over his head and the rest put the earth together with their hands till they have filled the grave that done they burn all that belonged to the deceased They also sometimes kill Slaves to attend the Ghosts of the deceased and to wait on them in the other world But these poor wretches get out of the way when their Masters dye into some other Island We may justly conceive a horrour at the relation of these inhumane and barbarous Funerals which are drench'd with the blood of Slaves and divers other persons and among others women who have their throats cut are burnt and buried alive to go and accompany their Husbands into the