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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

Manioc and good store of Pyman Sometimes they have a detestable kind of seasoning for their meats and that is the fat of the Arouagues their irreconcileable Enemies But this hath no place in their ordinary Repasts as being used only on solemn days of debauches and rejoicing As to their drink as they do in several parts of America the same grains of Mais which serve to make bread are used for the composition of a Drink which is accounted as good as Wine and as among us the Wheat which makes Bread will also make Beer so in these Islands of the Roots of Potatoes and Manioc which serve to make Bread there are made two several sorts of Drinks which are ordinary in the Country The former and most common which is made of Potatoes boiled with water is called Maby It is excellent good to refresh and quench thirst and it hath also an appetitive vertue which causes an evacuation of the sandiness and all the viscosities of the lower parts Whence it comes that those who make use of that Drink never complain of the Stone or Gravel The other Drink is called Ouïcon from a name coming neer the Caouin of the Brasilians and is made of the Cassava it self boiled in like manner with water It is strained through a coarse cloth which the Savages call Hibichet This Drink is more excellent than the Maby and differs not much from Beer either as to colour o● strength The Indians make it very pleasant but 〈…〉 withall that much drunk it into●●cates as 〈…〉 They make it of Cassava well and throughly bak●● on the plan●● then chew●d by the Women and put into Vessel● full of Water or after it hath been infus'd and boiled for 〈…〉 the space of two days by its own vertue with 〈…〉 fire as new Wine does the infusion is strain'd through the coarse or 〈…〉 and the juice which is gotten from it by that 〈…〉 being kept two daies more is ready for drinking 〈…〉 ●a●e this composition boil the better they put into the Vessel two or three Roots of Potatoes scraped very small It must indeed be acknowledged that this custom which the Savages observe in ●●●wing the Cassava before it be put into the Vessel is enough to turn the stomachs of some but it is most certain withall that the Drink made after that manner is incomparably better than that which is made otherwise The Ouicou is also made after another manner without the Roo●e of Potatoes which is this after the Cassava is taken off the Plank 〈…〉 laid somewhere about the house and covered with the leaves of Manioc and some heavy stones laid thereon to set it into a heat and this is done for the space of three or four days That done it is broken into several pieces which are spread on Banana-leaves and then they are lightly sp●inkled with water and so left When the Cassava hath remained so for the space of one night it becomes all red and then it is good to make Ouicou and will make its water boil with out the Roots of Potatoes Besides these two sorts of Drinks which are the most ordinary in the Caribbies there are also made in divers places several sorts of delicious Wines The Negroes who are slaves in these Islands make incisions in the prickly Palms out of which there distils a certain liquor like White-wine which they gather in several little Gourds fasten'd to the overtures of those trees whereof each will yield two pints every day and sometimes more The most ancient Authors assure us that among the East-Indians the Wine of Palms was very much in use as indeed it is at this day It is also used in some parts of Africk as at Monomotapa Moreover there is in the Caribbies another kind of Drink made of Bananas which is also in other parts and by some called Couscou But in regard this sort of Wine though very pleasant and strong causes great ventosities it is not much used To conclude there is made in these Islands an excellent kind of Wine of those precious Reeds out of which the Sugar is gotten And this is the most esteemed Drink of any made in the Caribbies It is called by some Cane-wine and there is a particular secret in the making of it There is more made at S. Christophers then any where else by reason of the abundance of Canes planted there The juice of these Canes is got out by a Mill made purposely for that use afterwards it is purified by fire in great Caldrons It may be kept a long time in its perfection and it hath a sweetness and withal a certain picquancy which might make it pass for Sack Of the same Canes there is also made a certain Aquavitae called Cane-Aquavitae which keeps better then the Wine of those same Reeds There is not any thing in the substance of these ordinary Repasts of our Caribbians which seem to savour of the Savage unless it be haply the Lizards But why may not they be as good Meat as the Frogs and Snails eaten in some parts of France And who knows not that in Spain they eat abundance of young Asses Nay compare the sustenance of our Caribbians with that of the Canadians who besides the skimmings of the Pot which we said they eat do commonly drink filthy and nasty grease and prefer the flesh of Bears before any other with that of the Inhabitants of the Island of Good-fortune one of the Canaries who eat abundance of Suet with that of the Tartars the Persians the Chineses the Huancas a Nation of Peru of the Negroes of Angola who commonly live on the flesh of Horses Cammels Mules Wolves Foxes Asses Dogs and drink the Blood of those Creatures with that of the East-Indians who think the Flesh of Bats and Mice as delicious as that of Partridges with that of the Brasilians who feed on Toads Rats and Worms or lastly with that of the Tapuyes and some other Barbarians who eat hair minc'd very small and mix'd with wild honey and season all their Meat with the ashes of the burnt Bodies of their deceas'd Relations and mix them with the meal they bake which causes horrour only to represent much more to do Let there be I say a comparison made between all these infamous Ragouts and those of the Caribbian Nation and it will be found that in their ordinary Commons there is nothing barbarous Yet are we not to dissemble what some of the French relate to wit That they have seen the Caribbians eating the Lice and Chegoes they had taken as it is reported of the Mexicans and Cumaneses but they do not make their Ordinary out of them and it is particular only to some among them besides that they do it not out of any delicacy they find in those Vermine but only to be revenged of them Moreover the horrour which the Caribbians conceiv'd heretofore at the eating of Swines-flesh Tortoises and Lamantin for the pleasant reasons before alledged was so great

upon them and filling their habitations with fire massacres desolation and whatever the implacable spirit of revenge could suggest to them of greatest cruelty to feed their rage and satisfie their brutality Of the occasions of this Rupture there are several accounts given Some attribute it to Mons Parquet's establishing of French Colonies in the Islands of Granada and St. Lucy without the consent of the Caribbians who thereupon took occasion of discontent Others affirm that they took up Arms to revenge the deaths of some of their Nation Inhabitants of the Island of S. Vincent whom they believe to have come to their end by drinking some poison'd strong-Strong-water which had been brought them from Martinico Immediately upon the breaking forth of this War and the first devastations made by the Caribbians in one of the French Quarters which according to their custom was by a base surprise those who envy'd the glory of those Colonies and their progress and establishment in those Islands scattered their malicious reports That the French would never be able to keep under those Barbarians That those of the same Nation who live in Dominico and S. Vincent's had secretly apply'd themselves to all their Allies of the Continent to incite them to engage in an unanimous War against the French That the more easily to effectuate that design and make their Party stronger they had gone so far as to treat of a Peace with the Arovagues their ancient Enemies And That they had so far engag'd all these Salvages in their Quarrel that they were resolv'd with a joynt-force to fall upon the French and over-run them with their multitude It is not certainly known whether there were really any such Association against them or not but certain it is that the effects ●of it appear'd not and that after the first Irruptions of the Caribbians of Martinico into the French Quarters which were indeed with some advantage of the Barbarians they have been so unsuccessful in their Enterprises since and worsted so with the loss of the chief amongst them that about two years since they were forc'd to quit their Villages and leave their Gardens to the disposal of the Victorious and retire for safety into Woods and inaccessible Rocks and Mountains So that the World is now perswaded of the contrary viz. That if those Barbarians shall make any further attempt to recover themselves out of that wretched Consternation in which they live by the force of Arms they will in all likelyhood be forc'd either to quit the absolute possession of the Island to the French or accept of such Conditions of Peace as they can obtain to renew the ancient Alliance which they have been but too forward to break CHAP. III. Of the Islands which lye towards the North. THe Islands we intend to describe in this Chapter lying more towards the North are consequently more temperate They are also more frequented than those of Tabago Granada and S. Alousia in regard the Ships which have refresh'd themselves at Martinico and fall down thence to S. Christophers may visit them one after another without any diversion out of their Course DOMINICO THe Island of Dominico lies at the altitude of 15 degrees and 30 minutes It is conceiv'd to be in length about 13. Leagues and not much less in breadth where it is at the greatest There are in the midst of it several high Mountains which encompass an inaccessible bottom where may be seen from the tops of certain rocks an infinite number of Reptiles of a dreadful bulk and length This Island is inhabited by the Caribbians who are very numerous in it They have a long time entertain'd those who came to visit them with a story of a vast and monstrous Serpent which had its aboad in that bottom They affirmed that there was on the head of it a very sparkling stone like a Carbuncle of inestimable price That it commonly veil'd that rich Jewel with a thin moving skin like that of a mans eye-lid but that when it went to drink or sported himself in the midst of that deep bottom he fully discover'd it and that the rocks and all about receiv'd a wonderful lustre from the fire issuing out of that precious Crown The supream Person of this Island was heretofore one of the most considerable among those of the same Nation For when all their Forces marched out to Battel against the Arovagues their common Enemies of the Continent he had the conduct of the Van-guard and was known by a particular mark which he had about him When any French Ships come neer this Island there are immediately seen several Canows in each whereof there are three or but four Indians at the most who come to direct them to the Havens where they may safely Anchor They commonly bring along with them some of the Country Fruits whereof having presented the Captains and other Officers with the choicest they proffer the rest in exchange for Fishing-hooks grains of Crystal and such trifles as they account precious MARIGALANTA THe Island of Marigalanta lyes at the altitude of 15 deg and 40 minutes It is a flat Country and well furnish'd with wood which argues it would be fertile enough if it were once reduced to culture It hath always been frequented by the Indians as well in order to Fishing as for some small Gardens which they have in it The last Letters from the Carribies brought news that Mons d'Howel Governour of Gardeloupe had lately peopled this Island and built a Fort in it to keep under certain Indians who would have opposed his design and had kill'd twenty of those whom he had sent thither at first to discover the Country and that upon that accident he had sent over thither three hundred men who retreated in the night time to a great Vessel they had in the road till such time as the Fort was made tenable The Caribbians of Dominico the better to continue the good correspondence there is between them and the Inhabitants of Gardeloupe who are their next Neighbours affirm they had no hand in that Massacre and excused themselves to Mons d' Howel imputing it to those of their Nation who live in the other Islands SAINTS BEtween Dominico and Gardeloupe there are three or four small Islands very neer one another commonly called the Saints They are at the same Altitude as Marigalanta West from which they lye and are as yet desert and unhabited The Island of Birds lyes more West then the forementioned at fifteen degrees and forty five minutes It hath that name from the infinite number of Birds which breed in it making their Nests even on the Sea-shoar They are for the most part easily taken with the hand not fearing men in regard they seldom see any This Island lyes very low and is hardly perceiv'd till one be very neer it DESIRADO THe Island Desirado was so called by Christopher Columbus as being the first discover'd by him of all the Caribbies in his second Voyage