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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

kind of amphibious Creatures But if the other inventions for fishing should fail our Caribbians they have their recourse to a certain wood which they bruise after they have cut it into little pieces which done they cast it into Ponds or those places where the Sea is quiet and calm and this is as it were a Sovereign Mummy wherewith they take as much Fish as they please but they are so prudent as not to make use of this last expedient but only in case of necessity for fear of making too great a waste among the Fish After Hunting and Fishing they apply themselves to several kinds of Works as to make Beds of Cotton very neatly woven which they call Amaes The Women spin the Cotton on the knee and commonly they make use of neither Distaff nor Spindle but some of them in the Island of Martinico have learn'd the use thereof of the French They have also the perfect Art of twisting it but in some Islands the Men weave the Beds Besides this they make Baskets of Bull-rushes and Grass of divers colours wooden chairs all of one piece little Tables which they call Matoutou weav'd of the leaves of the Latanier-tree the straining-cloths called Hibichets the Catolis which are a kind of great baskets to carry things on the back several sorts of Vessels fit for eating and drinking which are polish'd painted and adorn'd with abundance of pretty figures delightful to the eye They make also some other little ornaments as Girdles Hats and Crowns of feathers wherewith they set out themselves on solemn days And the women make for themselves a kind of Buskins or half-stockings of Cotton But above all they take abundance of pains in ordering and polishing their Arms that is their Bows their Arrows and their Boutous or Clubs which are of a hard and smooth wood and neatly wrought about the handles with wood and bones of divers colours They take no less pains about their Piragas or Vessels wherein they go to Sea and whatever belongs to Peace or War These Vessels are made of one great Tree which they make hollow smooth and polish with an unimaginable dexterity The greater sort of Piragas are many times rais'd higher all about especially towards the poop with some planks Sometimes they paint in them their Maboya sometimes they represent Savages or some other fantastick figures These Shallops are so large as many times to carry fifty men with all their Arms. Before they had any acquaintance with the Christians who furnish'd them with all sorts of Wedges and other Carpenters and Joyners tools they were put to a great deal of trouble to make their Vessels for they were oblig'd as the Virginians and some other Savages were to set fire at the foot of the Trees and to compass them about a little above the foot with wet moss to keep the fire from ascending and so they undermin'd the Tree by little and little Afterwards to pierce the wood they us'd certain hard stones sharpened at one end wherewith they cut and made their Piragas hollow but with so great trouble and expence of time that they acknowledge how much they are oblig'd to the Europeans who have taught them easier ways to do it by the iron-instruments wherewith they have supply'd them Thence it came that the Peruvians thought it so great a happiness to have the tools which were brought them by the Europeans that the use of Scissers being introduc'd into Peru by the means of the Spaniards an Indian of Quality admiring the invention said to one of them That though the Spaniards did not furnish them with any thing but Rasors Scissers Combs and Looking-glasses it sufficiently oblig'd them liberally to bestow on them all the gold and silver they had The Caribbians employ themselves also in making earthen Pots of all sorts which they bake in furnaces as our Potters do And of the same material they also make those Plates or Planks on which they bake the Cassava The dexterity they express in these little Exercises is a sufficient discovery that they would easily learn other Trades if they were taught them They delight very much in handling the tools of Carpenters and Joyners and though they have not been taught how they are to be us'd yet are they able to do many things since the Europeans have supply'd them therewith So that it is to be presum'd that if they had good Masters they would do well at those Trades They are great Lovers of divertisements and recreation and thence it comes they seek after whatever may keep them in a good humour and divert melancholy To that purpose they take a pleasure in keeping and teaching a great number of Parrots and Paraquitos To divert themselves they also make several Musical Instruments if they may be so called on which they make a kind of harmony Among others they have certain Tabours or Drums made of hollow Trees over which they put a skin only at one end To this may be added a kind of Organ which they make of Gourds upon which they place a cord made of the string of a reed which they call Pite and this cord being touch'd makes a sound which they think delightful The concerts of divers other Savages are no better then theirs and no less immusical to their ears who understand Musick In the morning as soon as they are up they commonly play on the Flute or Pipe of which Instrument they have several sorts as well polish'd and as handsom as ours and some of those made of the bones of their Enemies And many among them can play with as much grace as can well be imagin'd for Savages While they are playing on the Flute the Wives are busie in making ready their breakfast Sometimes also they pass away the time in singing certain Airs the burthens whereof are pleasant enough and in that Exercise they sometimes spend half a day together sitting on their low stools and looking on their fish while it is broiling They also put pease or small pebble-stones as the Virginians do into gourds through the midst whereof they put a stick which serves for a handle and then shaking them they make a noise This is the invention the women have to quiet their children Most of the Caribbian Songs consist of bitter railleries against their Enemies some they have also on Birds and Fishes and Women commonly intermixt with some bawdery and many of them have neither rhime nor reason Many times also the Caribbians of the Islands joyn Dancing to their Musick but that Dancing is regulated according to their Musick There are some Barbarians excessively addicted to that Exercise as for instance the Brasilians who as de Lery affirms spend day and night in dancing And we have said elsewhere that there are many Savages who make their imaginary felicity of the other life to consist in dancing But the Caribbians use Dancing particularly at their solemn Entertainments in their Carbet or publick house These

Christophers on the same day in the names of the Kings of France and Great Britain their Masters that they might have a place of safe retreat and a good Haven for the reception of such Ships of both Nations as should be bound for America that Island being furnish'd with all the advantages whereof we have given a full account in the Chapter particularly design'd by us for the description of it upon which score it was visited by the Spaniards who often put in there for refreshments both as they were inward and outward bound in their long Voyages Nay sometimes they left their si●k there to be look'd to by the Caribbians with whom they had made a peace upon those terms These two Gentlemen therefore considering with themselves that if they were posses'd of that Country they might the better incommodate their common enemy in America the Spaniard and have withall a convenient and secure habitation in order to the establishment of the Colonies they intended for those Islands became Masters of it and left men therein to keep it But before they parted thence having some grounds to fear that there might be some secret intelligence between the Indians and the Spaniards or that in their absence they might execute the resolution which by the perswasion of certain Sorcerers a sort of people in great esteem among the Indians they had undertaken which was to put to death all the Strangers who were come into their Country they in one night rid their hands of all the most factious of that Nation and not long after forc'd all the rest who had got together into several Bodies and intended to stand upon their guard to retire to some other places and to leave that to their disposal Things being thus order'd Desnambuc returns into France and Sir Thomas Warner into England where their conquest and all their proceedings thereupon were approved by the Kings their Masters and having obtained a permission to carry over some recruits of men they came back to the Island in the quality of Governours and Lieutenants under the Kings of France and Great Britany But Desnambuc before he went over to cultivate and prosecute his conquest imagin'd to himself that the most likely way to have a powerful support in France such as should concern it self in the preservation of that Island and so to secure and promote his designs would be to get together a Company of persons of Authority which should have the direction and signiory of the said Island and what others might afterwards be conquer'd and reduc'd under the jurisdiction of the King of France upon this provision that the said Company should have a care and make it their earnest business to supply the Colony with men for the keeping and cultivation of it as also with Ecclesiasticks to be maintain'd by allowances from the said Company and lastly to build certain Forts there for the security of the Inhabitants and to furnish them with Canon Powder and all sorts of Ammunition in a word to maintain a sufficient Arsenal wherein should be all things in readiness to oppose the Enemy This Company or Society was establish'd in the moneth of October in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred twenty and six as well for the Government of S. Christophers as those other Islands which are adjacent thereto and was approv'd by the King of France Since that time it hath been further confirm'd and favour'd with some new Concessions and very advantageous priviledges obtain'd from his most Christian Majesty the eighth of March one thousand six hundred forty and two for all the Islands of America lying between the tenth and thirtieth degree on this side the Equator Desnambuc having thus order'd his affairs in France returns to S. Christophers with a recruit of three hundred men which the Gentlemen of the Company newly erected had raised in order to the advancement of that Colony He brought over a●●o along with him a considerable number of gallant Volunteers who look'd on it as no small honour to run fortunes with so famous an Adventurer and to participate of his honourable hazards out of a confidence in process of time of reaping the fruit of his Conquests They got all safely to S. Christophers about the beginning of the year M. DC XXVII and though they had suffered much during their Voyage and were most of them either sick or much weakned yet were they not discourag'd by those difficulties but reflecting that the noblest enterprises are many times attended by great inconveniences and that Roses cannot be gather'd without thorns they immediately fell to work and having in a short time learn'd of those whom they found in the Isle what they were to do in order to their further establishment they behav'd themselves answerably to the generous designs of their Captain who on his part more and more encourag'd them by words and example How the Island was to be divided between the two Nations had been design'd before that Voyage but the particular Articles of the Division were solemnly agreed to and concluded on the 13th of May in the said year M. DC XXVII For to the end that every one might employ himself with some assurance upon his own stock and that no differences might arise between the French and the English M. Warner being return'd from England some time before the arrival of Desnambuc where he had also recommended his affairs to the direction of a Company which undertook the advancement of his enterprises they divided the whole Island between them and set those Boundaries to their several divisions which are remaining to this day but with this particular provision that Fishing and Hunting should be equally free to the Inhabitants of both Nations and that the Salt-ponds the more precious kinds of Timber fit for Dying or Joyners-work Havens and Mines should in like manner be common Nay it was further agreed upon by certain Articles concluded on both sides that a good correspondence should be maintain'd between them as also for the preventing of all jealousies and avoiding the occasions of disputes and contestations which might easily arise between people of different humours They further made a Defensive League for the mutual relief of each other if occasion should require against the attempts of the common Enemy or any other who should endeavour to disturb the peace and quiet which they hoped to enjoy together in those parts of the Country where they had planted themselves These things thus setled the two Governours betray'd a certain emulation in carrying on the establishment of their Colonies in the prosecution whereof it is most certain the English had very considerable advantages above the French to compass their designs For besides that that Nation which is as it were nurs'd up in the bosom of the Sea can better endure the hardship and inconveniences of long Voyages and is better vers'd in the making of new Plantations the Company which was establish'd at London for the

open War and to challenge him to be immediately ready to receive their Charge which should be much more violent then what they had met withal the day before and that then all their Forces were come together The Paracousses of the Apalachites having given audience to these Embassadours desir'd that days time to consider of the Propositions which had been made to him and thereupon having requir'd of them the Articles and Conditions under which they would Treat with him in case he might be inclin'd to Peace they told him That they had left their own Country with a resolution to plant themselves either by friendship or by force in that good and fat Country whereof he was possess'd and that if he would condescend to the former of those means they desired to become one People with the Apalachites to dwell in their Country and to cultivate it and so to supply the empty places of those who not long before had gone from among them to plant a new Colony in some remote parts of the World The Apalachite assembled his Council upon these considerations and having acquainted them therewith he represented That the Army of the Cofachites hindred the coming in of the Assistances which they might receive from the other Provinces that had not been ready to come in to them at the beginning of the War That by the same means the passage of Provisions was absolutely obstructed That the Enemy was Master of the Field and that without any resistance he had got into one of the best Provinces of the whole Country where he had also possess'd himself of places of Importance and That though in the precedent Engagement he had taken particular notice of the incomparable fidelity and gallantry of his People in setting upon and fighting against the Enemies over whom they had very considerable Advantages yet had that good Success been bought with the loss of his most valiant Captains and the best of his Souldiers and consequently it concern'd them to bethink themselves of some means to preserve the rest of the Kingdom by sparing what was then left of the choicest Men And since the Enemies were the first Proposers of the Conditions of Peace it would be the safest way to hearken thereto if it might be done without any derogation from their Glory and the great Reputation they had acquir'd before inasmuch as there was waste grounds enough in several places and that the Country by reason of the transplantation of some part of their Inhabitants was spacious and fertile enough to sustain them all All the chief Commanders of the Apalachites having heard what had been propos'd by their King and concluding it was not fear that oblig'd him to hearken to an Accommodation with the Cofachites since that the day before he had ventur'd his Person among the most forward but that it proceeded purely from the desire he had that they might not be rashly expos'd to further danger and his care of preserving his People which was already at the mercy of the Enemy who had possess'd himself of one of the richest Provinces and having also understood by some Spies who were come into the Kings Army by some secret ways and made their escape out of the Cities where the Cofachites had their Garisons that they treated with great mildness and respect the women and old men whom they had found there having I say taken all these things into consideration they unanimously subscribed to the sentiments of their Prince and made answer That there was a necessity of condescending to an Accommodation and making some Agreement upon the most advantageous Conditions they could according to the present posture of their Affairs And after they had confirm'd this resolution by their Ha Ha which is the sign of the applause and ratification wherewith they are wont to conclude their Deliberations they signified the same to the Embassadors of the Cofachites who expected it with impatience This news being carried over to the Camp of the Cofachites was receiv'd with great joy as being consonant to the end they had propos'd to themselves when they first undertook the War and left their Country They thereupon immediately deputed some of the chiefest among them to agree with the Apalachites about the absolute conclusion of that Peace and to sign the Articles of the Treaty These Deputies being come to the place where the Prince of the Apalachites expected them attended by the most considerable Persons about his Court sitting on a Seat somwhat higher then any of the rest and cover'd with a rich Fur were very kindly receiv'd and having taken their Seats the King drank to them of a certain Beverage call'd Cassina out of a Bowl of which he first tasted himself All that were present at the Council drank afterwards in order which done they fell upon the business of the Treaty which was concluded upon these Conditions That the Cofachites should inhabit promiscuously in the Cities and Towns of the Apalachites That in all respects they should be esteem'd and accounted as the natural Inhabitants of the Country That they should absolutely enjoy the same Priviledges That they should be subject to the King as the others were That they should embrace the Religion and observe the Customs of the Country Or if they would rather the Apalachites would resign up to them the rich and great Province of Amana to be enjoy'd only by them according to the limits which should be agreed upon Provided nevertheless That they should acknowledge the King of the Apalachites for their Sovereign and that from thence forward they should render him reasonable homage This Agreement being thus reciprocally concluded was attended with mutual acclamations Not long after the Deputies of the Cofachites having given an account of their negotiation to their Commander in chief and his Councel and represented to them the choice which had been left them either of living promiscuously among the Apalachites or being sole possessors of the Province into which they were entered they unanimously accepted of the latter and so became absolute Masters of that Province of Amana whereof the King of the Apalachites put them himself into quiet possession The Women Children and Old men who had been left behind when all s as were able to bear arms had follow'd their Prince were transported into some of the other Provinces where the King appointed a setled habitation for them and all the gallant men of that Province who had ventur'd their lives against the Enemy and for the preservation of their Country All things being thus setled both parties laid down their arms and the Cofachites went to fetch their Wives Children Cattel Baggage and the Souldiers they had left neer the great Lake of Theomi and being safely return'd they dispos'd themselves into the Cities appointed them congratulating their good fortune in the conquest of so noble a Country answerably to their expectation at the first undertaking of the War From that time the Apalachites gave the