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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	good_a	king_n	subject_n	3,003	5	6.4581	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35244	Miracles of art and nature, or, A brief description of the several varieties of birds, beasts, fishes, plants, and fruits of other countreys : together with several other remarkable things in the world by R.B., Gent.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1678 (1678)	Wing C7345; ESTC R21178	31,543	130

most part to the King of Ternate Scituate East of the Mollucoes exceeding plentiful of Rice well stored with Wild Hens and on the shores provided of a kind of Shell-Fish which in tast much resembleth Mutton a Tree they have which they call by the Name of Sagu of the pith thereof they make their Bread and of the Sap or Juice of it they compose a pleasing Drink which serveth them instead of Wine the Air Intemperately hot the People well proportioned but Rude and Salvage some of them Gentiles some Mahometans of which last Religion is their King the chief Town of it is Batchane or Batachina in which the Hollanders have a Fort to defend their Factory CHAP. LVII CALEBS or Gilolo WEst of the CALEBS or Gilolo lyeth the Isle of Borneo of more Note and Greatness than any of the Oriental Islands the Country said to be provided of all things necessary the People generally more White the then rest of the Indians of good Wits and approved Integrity though all Mahometans or Gentiles divided betwixt two Kings and two Religions the Kings of Borneo and his Subjects being all Mahometans those of Laus still remaining in their Ancient Gentilism These think the Sun and Moon to be Man and Wife and the Stars their children ascribing to each of them Divine honour to the Sun especially whom they Salute at first Rising with great Reverence saying certain Verses their publick business are Treated on in the Night at which time the Counsellers of State meet and Assend some Tree viewing the Heavens till the Moon rise and then go to their Senate House the same Apparrel Generally of both Religions but thin by reason of the great heat of the Air a Shirt of Calico or some such light stuff worne more for modesty then for warmth CHAP. LVIII BORNEO OPposite to Borneo towards the South lyeth the Isles of Iava two in number distinguished by Iava Major and Iava Minor Iava Major the more Northward of the two and much the bigger said to be in Compass 3000 Miles the Country Rich and Fertile yielding great plenty of Fruit Corn and Rice especially the People of a middle Stature Corpulent and broad Faces most of them naked or covered only with a thin Silk and that no lower then the knee accounted the most civillest People of all the Indians as fetching their Deseent from China but withall Treacherous very Proud much given to lying and very careless of their words to which so used that they count it not amongst their faults Cruel they are also said to be and implacable if once offended accustomed of old to eat the Bodies of their Friend accounting no Burial so honourable nor Obsequie so applausive This is also a Custom amongst the rest of the Indians and so hath been ever since the beginning of the Persian Monarchy Herodotus reporteth how Darius Hystaspes understanding of this custom and withall knowing how the Grecians use to burn their dead sent to the Greeks that it was his pleasure they should eat the Bodies of their dead but they used all manner of perswasion and intreaty not to be forced to so Bruitish and Barbarous a Custom then commanding the Indians to comform themselves to the fashion of the Grecians but they all more abhorred to burn their dead then the Greeks did to eat them so impossible is it for a Custom either to be suddenly left off or to seem undecent and inconvenient if once throughly settled CHAP. LIX FESSE in Barbary THe Province of Fesse in Barbary is a Countrey very Fruitful well stored with Cattel and exceeding Populous the Villages whereof as bigg as the better sort of Towns in other places but contrary to the Customs of other Countreys better Inhabited on the Hills then amongst the Villages the People making use of the Mountains for their Habitations as places of defence and safety but Husbanding the Villages which lie nearest to them In this Province 't is said they have Lyons so tame that they will gather up Bones in the Street like Dogs without hurting any Body and other Lyons that are of so cowardly a Nature that they will run away at the Voice of the least child CHAP. LX. PARIA in America PARIA in America is a County for so much as hath been discovered neither Rich nor Pleasant and consequently the less lookt after covered with Shrubs and Bushes and such unprofitable things heretofore famed for pearl Fishing all along the Coast from the Gulf of Paria to that of Venezuela called therefore Costos de las perlas but that gainful Trade hath long since failed it not only in esteem for a vein of excellent Salt found near Promontory of Araya and the Bay of Cariaco gathered and digged up thereabout in great abundance and yet never diminishing there are some strange Creatures in this Country as the Beast called Capa the soles of whose feet are like a shooe a kind of Hog which lives altogether upon Ants or Pismires Parrots and Bats of more then ordinary greatness of the People there is nothing singullers except it be that having plenty of good Fruits Fish and Flesh they use themselves to a far worse diet feeding on Horse-leeches Bats spiders Grashoppers Worms Lice and such other vermine In other things they seem to have a mixture of all ill Customs used amongst the Salvages of Asia Affrick and America as multitudes of Wives prostituting these Wives for the first Nights lodging to the Piacos or Priests and after to their Guests taking great pains to black their Teeth and putting strange colours on their Bodies instead of Garments high minded they are Treacherous and revengeful accustomed to the use of poysoned Arrows which they Invenom with the blood of Snakes and other mixtures In one thing only different from their Neighbours fencing of their grounds Orchards with a Cotton thread as high as ones wast and an opinion which they have that whosoever breaketh it or goes over or under it shall die immediately more safe in that opinion then by Brazen Walls CHAP. LXI NVMIDIA THe natural Inhabitants of Numidia are said to be a base vile People Thieves Murderers Treacherous and Ignorant of all things feeding most commonly on Dates Barley and Carrion accounting Bread a diet for their Festival-days But the Arrabians who are intermingled with them in most part of the Countrey affirmed to be comparatively with the Nations Ingenious liberal and civil The Garments of the Numidians of the coursest Cloth so short that they cover not half the Body The Richer sort distinguished by a Jacket of blew Cotton with wide Sleeves their Steeds are Camels which they ride without a Stirrup or so much as a Sadle A leather Thrust through an hole made in the Nose of the Camel serves them for a Bridle and to save the charge of Spurs they make use of a Goad their Religion Mahometism to which perverted Christianity having once had footing here in the year 710. The Azanaghi and other People of