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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64809	The history of the Sevarites or Sevarambi, a nation inhabiting part of the third continent commonly called Terræ australes incognitæ with an account of their admirable government, religion, customs, and language / written by one Captain Siden, a worthy person, who, together with many others, was cast upon those coasts, and lived many years in that country.; Histoire des Sevarambes. English	Allais, Denis Vairasse d', ca. 1630-1672.; Roberts, A., 17th cent.	1675 (1675)	Wing V20; ESTC R13659	118,902	302

Cracos where he is to spend all his days in what Exercises please him best The Country affords him all Necessaries without pains therefore the Fools lead a pleasant life in the Woods and Medows Before we go out of the Kingdom I will said Sermodas beg leave of Sevarminas to have a Guard and visit the Provinces of Knaves and Fools where you shall see such Tricks and Sports as you never saw the like And if you desire to visit any other part of the Kingdom I will desire leave from our mighty King who will take care to provide for your safety in going and coming For though in this happy Paradise there is nothing of evil all things are answerable to the excellent and kind nature of the Inhabitants yet round about the Borders in the adjoyning Islands and Provinces there is as much Disturbance War Tumult and Unquietness as in any part of your Northern World for the Sevarambi have a Law to send thither all those persons who desire to cause any alteration in their Government or Manners or who live not according to the strict Rules which they have received from their Forefathers and which by no means they will be perswaded to change Some of these banished men after a certain number of years and a visible sign of Reformation have leave to return and to be admitted again amongst the Sevarambi but others are so unquiet and unruly that they are a trouble to themselves and all that are concerned with them Therefore our Princes and Governors will not admit them again for fear they should relapse into the same evils and disturb this Kingdom which for many thousand years hath continued in peace and prosperity without alteration by the excellent Laws of our Great and wise Sevarias the first Monarch of this happy Land Hence it is that we never have any change of chief Governours or Governments every one knows his duty his place and abilities and is fully satisfied with the advantages that he expects from thence Here is no oppression nor violence the least inclination of that unnatural disposition sends men away to the Borders to prevent future mischiefs Neither have the Sevarites that wicked custom of coining Money and buying and selling all things with money the root of all Northern evils They will not admit of any such weed to grow in this Land but things are exchanged for one another And you have seen since your entrance there is so great an abundance of all good things that men must be lovers of wickedness that can be evil in the midst of such a plenty of goodness where it overflows But I must tell you said Sermodas of one thing more which causeth us to continue in peace we are not subject to the wicked attempts and temptations of any evil Spirit as you are in the Northern World Those dangerous Imps care not to visit this Southern part for they have been so often caught in the snares here that they dread the very sight of the Sevarites or of their Country You I understand in the Northern parts lay most of your miscarriages at the Devils door who hath a room in many of your habitations and a dwelling in every place and corner but we are altogether free from his company and temptations Sometimes it is true he sends some loose Devils to debauch a few indiscreet persons but then we send them away immediately to their proper places with the Fiend in their company But said Maurice how can you keep the Devils out of your Land They fly in the empty Air and go by night as well as by day Sermodas answered Our eyes are better than yours but the Sevarites of all men have the most refined senses They can see when the Spirits come amongst them for this purpose there is a constant Guard kept in all the usual Roads upon the Borders of the Sevarites four hundred Conspirers if I may so call them are kept in constant Pay to drive away the Devil with Spells when he ventures to approach upon the Borders They have a particular Art to command the evil Spirits which no man knows but themselves It is true some of the peeping and crasty Rascals creep into this Land through by ways out of the usual Roads but when the Sevarites catch them they torment them sufficiently and deal with them as with Spies without any compassion of them so that they seldom return to this place again but by their cruel entertainment they keep all their other Comrades from entring in amongst the Sevarambi I know that in your Countries you have not that care nor vigilancy of your selves for your own good Hence it is that all sorts of Devils have so great an interest in your parts and that you can scarce stir without meeting one or many in your way Besides this Country between the Rivers bears an aromatick Tree which the Devils cannot endure for it sends up into the Air such a strong smell that they are ready to choke when they draw near to a place where it grows and you shall see that the Inhabitants have been advised by their wise Sevarias to plant one in every Garden and side of their Houses The Tree is named Crassarabi and bears a leaf like a Palm-leaf but is full of prickles as a Thorn and Bramble-bush The Sevarites have this way to torture the poor Devils that unhappily fall into their hands they tye them with a Cord invisible to you but visible to them answerable to the substance of the Devils which is airy and then bind them to this Tree where they slash them with a Rod cut out of the branches which causes them to howl most dreadfully We may chance to give you a sight of this action if you travel into the Country towards the Borders Another way they have to plague and imprison them by making Gun-powder for when the Devils come into a Land they always draw to that place where there is the greatest noise and disturbance for there they imagine they may make a good interest Now there is no greater noise in this Land than this of the Gun-powder which we make not as you do in Europe but with a wheel as you may see if you travel into the Land Sometimes therefore it happens that the silliest of them prying too near into the work either to understand the Art or to know what the Sevarites are doing they are many times caught by their ears and I have known half a dozen wound into a grain of Gun-powder and imprisoned so close that they could not possibly get away till the powder took fire The best and strongest powder hath always some of these airy Beings shut up This causeth the destruction that follows when Gun-powder takes fire for then the Devils being released break out with a vengeance and tear in pieces all that dare stand in their way The Sevarites have many other ways to punish them for the insolences and wickednesses which they have committed