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Aowns, with a particular Account of the Cuftom« w»fol"/r^'°? ^^!/S'?" °^ ^^«fc ^^veral Natfons.Thc Tranflated from the irtfich Original publifh'd Hvi^ in the \ear 1713. L N D l^t ^If^i^V"?'-^?^*'^^'^^^''^^ -»iCrcw;. over aeinft \ ^Jt^unflan's Church, in Flees^fheet. M DCC XI V IVinij^HaiMiii w^Mn, II limn II 1 mS^mSSr \ "^fSSr^^ i.. '"1^ "f r' , ejra ;: '. > 5 .. v^- x^i-' <^/ ( I , . : ■8 T •''■ ' ^ ;; -: /K i »»■ ^ /^ I » f ■Hi^' ii^Jr \~'^ ... /' ^ ); » O ""? V ^ '^^ ^T 1 '-• '^"^ <> N' • •-rn'^f fir <"' '\.AVZ'. \ I /}■ : i LI THE PREFACE. iT^fffhe needle fs to take up the Readers Time with a long jiecount of the following Letters, the Heads of the Contents whereof may be feen in the *^=^ Ti^/e, 4»s # A3 It mmmm w The P R E F A C E. ff ffiay be vrofer here to obferve^ that fome of the French Letters have been en'Wely omit- ted^ at containing mhing but Relations of the Converfions of Infidels and other Matters peculiarly appertaining to the M.fftoners^ which would vnly have fwelVd the Volume and perhaps been acceptable to none. Of the Letters inferted, feveral are alfo much ahridg'dy where ^ thy run out into Religious Difcourfes and Jcceunts of the Lives of fome Mffion^ ers^ as may he feen peculiarly mentioned at the End of fome of the faid Letters. If any Jha/l hapfen to think there is fliU too much of the particular Acliom of the Mifftonprs and of Reli- gigm Matters in fome of the Letters^ they are depr'd to confider that fomething mull be allowed for Connexion ^ and above all that in mofi ofthofe Parts^which curforily read over may feem to be barely Religious^ there is, when rightly Confide/d, much Information^ as to the Manner s:^ Cvfioms and Idolatrous Worjhip of the Indian Nations. T^Je Adiffioners being fettled Inhabitants of thofe Countries they write of, /peaking the Languages and reading the Boob; y are able to acquaint us with mdny Citriiffities, which Travellers in paffmg throuoh can never be\ Mafiers of. The Writers of thofe Letters make the Knowledge of thofe People they are among their Study, and converfe^ with all Sorts from the Bighefi tethe Meanefl j thiy are Men chofen out of Many for that Purpofe, and confequently the only Per- fons that can fet us Right in vur Koiians of thofe People fo remote from., hs, and fo different in all ^fpeEis,. ^Having: pr^mis'd thefe few Lines tont>hing the Tranflatiotl^ fome Qbfervations concern- ing the Original, made by the French Eaitor (hall h added, in regard they ferve to clear fome Diffi^ fultfes which may occur in the Letters and^MHe known Jsver^f Particulars that may he acceptable^ »/, ^hat famt 'ely omit- IS of the feculiarly 9ould 4>nly acceptable d are alfo Religions ie Mijfion" fhe End of 00 much of ^d of Reli- are def^r^d ConneElion^ :h curforily /, there is, , as to the ^if of the s of thofe luages and With mdny wovgh can fe Letters are among from the \ofen out of le only Per- s of thofe mt in aU ?Ji» Lines fs concern- 'ditor (hali Jme Diffi' due known le. The PREFACE. Wt^9 Letters from Carnatc it appears tLt fU»' M.jfloners in that new MifTion anki^'J V rhrougho.. indl,, mufl conLalfyftZ tlnteZ Guard agatnfi the Jeatoufy conceived of f heir be Z -Hmd, mkch, ,n the Ofinim of thpCe People rooJl l^c«„r^ ,0 M ,he Rules of DeencfZ' foUtt »/i; keep, conmual Fajl, eating t„7 o„Me1,l I Bread, »0w, Flefil, Eggs a«d Fijh, n>hich are Z &!d'rt "t ^"'^ *f '^ "f"''' " /"*""■' ' that r-gulLtfe, thetr Zeal mnld haveprov'd IneffiaZ ' and ,hey,oM„ot have ConverL f. t^Sh^l illua/fy dine- fiveral Brachmans, and above One InLt"' "^ ■^'"'"' " '""f'hend, ithence the inaians came to conceive fach an invinciHe Aver, fton for Europeans. Some Per/ons v>ho wterefi ^rvrr '*'/T/"' X^''^-'" '■» '"dia have defird toMiHferm'd ,n that ^air, and it U » •"3 , jartiiHlaf i ¥ The P R E F A C E. partkuUr Tleafure to me to givt thtm that Sa^ tisfdlion, which will be of Vfe for the better under- jl4nding of the Genius and Manners of the Indian Nation, To this Purpofe there are Two Things to be fremiid. The firfi w, that the Indians are divided into fe- deral Clafbs^ which the Portuguefcs caS Caftas, that is, Racesy or Tribes, There are Three of them which are the Chiefs the Race of the Brachmaos, which is the frime Nobility ^ that of the Kchatrys, or Rajas, *infwerable to our Gentry^ or Inferior Nobi" lity in Europe, and that of the Choutrcs, that is the Commonalty. Bepdes thefe Three Races^ which are very exten* five, there is a Fourth call'd the Race of the Farias, being the meane(i of the Multitude, This is hok'd upon by all the others as an infamous Race^ with which there is no having any Communication without* forfeiting a Man's Honour, They have fo horrid a Notion of thi Farias, as to reckon whatfeever one cf them touches defifd and unfit to be put to any ufe -.f they always talk to them at a Diftance ; they are not permitted to live in the TownSj but muji hep abroad^ and build their Villages as remote as is appointed. Each of thofe principal Riices is divided into o- thers fubordinate to it^ and feme nobler than others. The Race of //>ff Chonters comprifes the greatefi Number of thofe fubaltern Races \ for under the Name of Choutres are comprehended the Races 0/ Merchants^ Husbandmen, Goldfmiths^ Carpenters^ Mafons, fainter s. Weaver s^ &c. Every Trade is confined to one Race^ and none can T6ork at it but fuch as are of that Race ^ fo that a. Carpenter would be fever ely punijh'd jhpuld he meddle with the u'oid- fmiths Trade, However there, ar^ feme Profeffions to which every Mm indifferently map apply. Umfelf ' .. .. <■. of thMt Sa^ er under' f Indian fremiid. ! into ft" 1 Caftas, hem which IS, Tphich atrys, or tor Nehi" S, thut is ry exten* '» Parias, is looked '4re, vfith '» without-* horrid s Itever one Ht to any we'j they but muft ^ott as is i into 0' tn others. t greatefi mder the Races of 'arpenterSf Trade is at it hut ier would the u'oid" ProfeJJions I himfflf The P R E F A C E. •/ what Race foever he be amon^ the Choutrcs, as for Jnfiance^ thofe of a Merchant^ Soldier and Huf- bondman ^ but there are other s^ which infinitely de* hafe fuch as follow them^ as for Example^ in fevt" ral Parts of India they reckon Fijhermen^ Shepherds^ Shoe-mahrs, and generally all that work in Leather no better than Parias. The fecond Thing to be premised is, that art In- dian cannot^ without degrading himfelf eat with one of an inferior Race ,han his own, nor any thing that has been drefs*d by one of fuch a Race, Thus it mufi be a Brachmin and not a Choutre, that dreffes Meat for another Brachman. The fame is oh fervid in Marriages, fo that none can contraSi out of their own Race. j4ny Man that Should Marry into an inferior Race would be dif- graced for ever^ look'd upon as infamous^ and exveU'd iju own Racf* ■ Jin Jhort^ it is impojfible to exprefs, what an eX" travagdnt Conceit the BraChmans have of their No- bility, what 4 Value they have for their Cufiomsi and in what Contempt rhey hold the Laws and of other Nations, By this it is eafy tc dicover whence thii \ " have conceived fuch a Horror for Europeans, it is impojfible ever to correR in them. When ►., Portuguele? came firfi into India, they ohferv'd none of the Cufioms of the Country, they made na DiflinElion of Races, they conversV indiferentlywith the Parias, they even took them into their Service^ and from that Time the Contempt the Indians had for the Parhs, communicated it fdfto ribe Porcu* ^ucfcs^ and has continued ever fince. Tho* the other Europeans were not tgrtorant of the Ntcenefs of the Indians in that Particular, yet they regaded it no mor^ than the Protuguefes ', they have always liv^d in India as they do in Frnncc^, A 4 England The P R E F A C E. Englaml 4//^ Holland, without .confining or aftfiff tkemfelves to the Cuftoms of that N^tiot To {hi n^X Pf' fddid :ho Lihtrjy praah'd by m^ny of thm, tl^tr Exc^fs m the uje of Wine And their f J- i«iW W4y oftrc'Jing the' Minifters of their Reti. gton-, alLthefe Things haV9 had ft fat /nfiw e»ce vton 4 Feofle who a^e naturally foher ard fiay'd and who pay the moft profound Refpe^ to thof, who ^re their DoElors and InfiruEiors. This it if that hoi gjverj the Indians, that extraordinary Aver-^ ^T •/?':^"':°Peans, fo often viention'd in the Letters 'l%fM*'^;:\rt>rite from India, and particuUrly thefe here ofer'd to the Puhlick. ^ . ^s for the Letters from China, it appears by rZ ^i^-^^.^^^ftia^^yy?'// advances there^ana the i^injrc Mcrfpttons written with the Emperors own Hand and given the ['^fuits at Peking to he ftt w tn their New Church, which are hert infer ted and tranflatedy are a convincing Icjlimo^y of the foad Qpwton that Prince has of tki Ciiriftian ReLcn aKd of the Proteaion he affords it, • ' the CurioHs will donhtlefs he pleas' d. t^o read the Letter Jrom F. Jartoux, containing an exaU Vefcrip^ tion of f^r Gin-feng, a Plant Jo famous throuohoui the Empire <>/ China, and hitherto unknown in Eu- rope, The Plant is drawn to the Life and the Ac eount of tt isfo particular, that every Man may permiy underhand it's Qualities and Vfe. ' Tie Extras of a SpaniOi Relation, Printed ai Lima, tn 1704, and Reprinted at Madrid in 171 1 acauaints tu with a Country hitherto unknown, iml Which f. Baraza firfl conveyed the Light 'of.t'^e Gof- pel, bringing together and civilii^ing an infinite mm-* brr of Barbarians, who liv'd difpers'd, lifie Wild £eajts tn the Woods and Mountains -, bHiidiftg Jeve- ^^jfrg^X^^n^i and Baptifng above Forty ThoUfand The P R E F A C E. Lt ^'^Tf ^"'T"^ f'"" Canada ,. Kudfoi's Bay, v.,h (.„, Ac»Hn, ./ th^t Country, W ^« lajf may b, the mrre Mecuahit at ihU Timi ^ »r th. Kwg >f France /» th. Com »/ EngUad. towr of the mmis of the Archipelago, mt % /s freauemed iy our M.r.,,a»t. ortrfvae,. W ', v,k,ch we Are cor,fe<,utmly mter Str»r,g,ru THE I! f? ^ i* 'i H ii tiiUv'. •"..\!lA i-jt A1 ■,^Cn '-i ...^ ?n U'i^i:^! mxK ■1 ■> ^ < T -Wl 1i* 5iUs. :^vl **TT/ ,V M^" >?\ 'Jta-cr. J . ; •^■iJ --s A '■^■: : ■ .., It Iff 1 ^vSM ■■a ■:.: -'".iQ'UW. ;A iiodih •• T H E .J .. j .! V I* ^999S LETTER from Father J?a«irW to 'MwM ^^^ Biftop of Anranckeu concer- . iflW^gfe ning the Knowledge the Jndidns have had of the True Religion, the Truth ,:whereof they have corrupted with Fables^ r- a -C ; U p^. II. A tetter from the fame F. BouchiT t6 F. .-ff4/f», concerning the Oracles deliver'd by the Devil inlndia^ and the Silencing oftholc ' Oracles in thofe Countries, where Chriftianky gains footing. p, 27 III. The firft Letter from F. M4rPi» to F. rU- Utte^ containing many Particular* of the Coua- ttj of Marav4, ziit>ii\ w^fim^H io >• 54. The C N T EN T S. *w*!r« K ^.ii "V ::■-.. -:i IV. The fecond Letter from the faid F. Jllari tin to F. riilctte,on the ftme3uy^. , ^^^^ y. A Letter from F. 4e la Lane to F. Mowtrues, containing the Extent of the iMiflion oi Car- nate, the fervile Condition of the Indians -, their Averfion to Europeans j their Religion, the Original of Idolatry- among them -, their Morality, the Irifluerice* Judiciary Aftrolo- gy has over them; the Learning of the Brachmans \ their Notion of the Contrivance of the World ; their Knowledge in Arith- inatick and -Aftrpnomy v and their Syfteme of the Heavens, and the Motions of the Pla- nets* ... ; . .. . ^ r ^ -^> loi, VI. Extrad of a Letter from the fame F. de la Lane^ concerning the Nature of the Soil of Carnate and it'sProdudli the principal Fruits cgrovjring therfe^ extravagant ; Nicenefs of the: - Indians \ Learning of the Brachmans, anditBe Value they put upon their Books; Mi^Mw .-■---».■ . . '■.•''•'■-, ' • .-, J ■■ '■ .*•••- ■' ' * " - ■ . ■. •■ ' .• .i J , t., I VII. A Letter from F. Martin, to F. de Fillettey . .containing the pfefent State of Chrifiianity m the Kingdom of Marava j the Race, or Tribe .of Robbers •, a cruel add barbaroit^ Cuftomi vamong thofe People :; their Revolt againft t their Prince i and the Diforders theyi occa- "iion in the Country. .. j .lub li r p. 125 yilL A Letter from F. Santiago to F. Emanuel '\Saray^ concerning; the, building of a Nev;. Church in the Kingdom of Cagonti^ an Infur- reaion of Heathen Pricfts againft the Miffio- «er, &c. . *. 133. iX n- The CONTENTS. IK. AHjetter froiii % shpheii te dui tCi F. CW- ^UsiJhiitu, aboDt a Perfecution rais'd at chin- '>'' haka/Uram f ia I»Mai ^ „ - ^ ., p. 14.0. .I*..: I .^ ~' " .! . ' ^V,;^ Letter from F. P^ph to F. le pobien, of '^^the^rts and PJTyfick of the Mians. p, 147. ilowiiJ oili AT LioiiqvrA'jQ ; '^ X'litA letter fpoiri P^^Favre to R i^^r U BoefTe^ 'rricbiitaimng-theo^tite of Ghrifiianity in the ^^■^hlipptne Iflands; Abbot 5iWoff's Entrance in- :?2 ^''^.'•? ' J^/i!*> going to difcover the New ^ If^^SS.l'^f'!^**'^^'^^'* Projea for planting of ^^ thcmthU theMflands of Mcc4,J', the Situ- 10 atiottibf thdf^iflands; Religion and Manners i ) of^ their Inhabitant^ the Arrival of the Mif- ^tv^on^rsiinthoieiflands. ;:ii j>! . p. j^. iXll.o A:, Letter «fom F; ' .i' £«fWrdi?« to the F <: Frojpura tor General of the Miflibns of /»^ii a:nd Chma, of th; Troubles which happen'd :^n m^UeEmi>€rm(ifm^^^ Artifices "iL'«g.d:.by the faid Emperor's , lEldfeft son to ; i^cftroy the Hereditary Prinze s that Prince f«ftor?d to Favour, and the Eldeft Son pu- . siiillid; the EmpeVorV Sicknefsi heis cuVd byF.i?Wir/., ^^ iXIH. Expofition of a m^fi Inkiiption givea , by the Emperor to the Jefrnts, to be fet up . ,,W their..New Church in Pekw^, p, 174. XlVi^A Letter from F. ChAvagtiac to F. le ; iGc^MT, concerning tne Zeal of the Chimfe 'Chrijitans^ and the Obftacles tiiat occur in Converting of the Idolaters. p. 1-77. TS. \m^$^y^^Cha' Ti*n. I aW'^VuW 36- (.rnvvV 'j.lJ 'lo Ja!?m5iJl:.?, orfl ^o te«ir'\ 'Jill ^i^;v\w'i Cib dii'A 7GV/*iio:h ^^^''^ di'j io Jiiwu^iiA p ^'AiTO'iV 'V> 'ir'.;slnoM Tib orii c ^o^^BVit:: S7il£>l 3fii io itrioihO hnR e3i .^uiaidfidiil gnoiiEld Inaval In 'jUr.inVO ill (/ij L"5bl'ji'{ jsSwS^ft?, iwSwirxii ^si. ■./'-. 3 mcnl -is; THE I' of the if Mum A .Tl ■■ i 1 o 1 Tib a .ia:^ ;! 3:iJ IT; 10 \3 10 Ci] A ' / -«4l „ LETTER FROM KBOiJCHEZ t>f the Society piJESVS, Miffionef Jj M«(/«re, and Superior of" the New Mifliori of Curntite, ^^■ T O T H E Lord Bifliop of Aiirmchet^ My LbRD, , - •' '^ . • »- ^ , , H E Labours of an Apof^o- lical Perfon in India are fo great, and fo continual, that the Care of preaching the Name of Jesus Christ to the Idolaters, and of im- proving the new Converts, i.:_„. ... - /eem to be more than fuffi- vicflt siHjreiy to pafee up a Mirioner. In fliort, at to fome Times of the Year they have fcarce Time t6 live, much lefs to apply themfelve.s.xo Stu,dy, atvi * i ikli^oher IS bfteft Hlig*4 to borrow frOm hi^ Reft at Night, a^ much '^'ime as is requifjt^ for Prayer ahd- the otheV 15)uties of fe Pirofeflloi?. PraSlces HowCver, at foine other Seaipns, and even of Mij^- fome H,6urs of the X)ay, we find Leifure enough, ^'^ to rcfreifh us from our Toils by ibme fort of Study. It is then our Care to make even our. Diverfion advantageous to our holy Religion. To that Purpofe we then improve ourfelves in thof» Sciences, which are known among the Ido- laters, in whofe Converfion we are labouring, and we make it our Bufinefs to difcover, even amobg their Errors, fomething that may con- vince them of the Truth we come to make known to them. Indian During that Time, whilft the Duties of my Idoiatryy Miniftry haveallOW'd me fome Leifure , I have, aCormp' ^^ £^^ ^^ j j^^^^ ^^^^^ ^bje^ je^ inyfelf into the Sy- thSaip-^^^ of Religion receiv'd among,, the Indians. tun. What I'propolt in' this Letter, is pnly to lay be- fore your Lordfhip-, and to put together fome Conjedures, which, I am of Opinion, you may think worthy your' Observation: They all tend to prove, that the Indians have taken their Reli- gion from the Books of Mofes and the Prophets ; that all the Fables their Books are fiU'd with, do not fo much difguife the Truth but that it ma) ftiil be known; and to conclude, that befides the Religion of the Hl?Areiu Nation, which they learnt, at leaft in Part, by their Commerce with the yeivs atid' ElypiiariSy there appear among them plain Footfteps of the Chriftian Religion, preach- ed to them by St. Thomas y the Apoftle, Pantanmy and other great Men, ever iince the firft Ages of ' the Church. I have ■ '. V" ; ' I have ttiade ho-f^eAion of your Ldrdfliip*s;ec/?f<'- allowing of the Liberty I take in fending you tiom of this Letter, it being my Opinion, that'fuch^^/J*. Refleaions as may be of Ufe for confirming ahd^,„.;f ' defending of our Holy Religion,; ought of Coutfe to be prefented to you. Th'eyyrjll touch you more than any other, after deihoftftrating, asyoa have done, the Truth of ouf Faith, by the mo^ extenfive Erudition, and the exadiefl: Kidwffidge in Antiquity, both Sacred and Profari^. ' I remember, my Lord, I have re^df,' Ift' ypiir learned Book of Evangelical Demonftratibn, that the Dodrine of Mofes had penetrated as far as India; and your lingular Care in obferving,what- foever may be found favourable to Religon ii; Authors, has anticipated fome of thofe Things . 1 might have had occafion to mention to you. t Will therefore only add, what I have difcovir^d" that is New,; upon the Spot, by reading of th^ moft ancient Bdoks of the Indu ns, and l)y!;riie Conv€rfation I have had with the moft learned Men of the Country. It is moft certain, my Lord, that the getiera- i^o Indi- lity of the Indians are no way tainted with the ans Jthe* Abfurdities of Atheifm. They have exaft 1^6- ^^'* tions enough of the Deity, tho* difguis'd ^nd corrupted by the Worfhip of Idols. Th^y^i:^ Their No^ knowledge on^ God infinitely 'perfeft, ^k^6 has tio-a of been from all Eternity, and in whom are the moft ^°^* excellent Attributes. Thus far nothing caii "be better, or more conformable to the Belief of God's People, in Relation to the Deity' Here follows what Idolatry has upfortunately added : Mod of the Indians affirm, that the gteatP/,5>^'*^ Number of Deities they at ptefent worjfhip, are ^^!fj*i% fio other than fubaltern Gods, • and fuhje'd jto thi Sovereign Bcinei. who is ediikllv Lbici^ ot the Cods and of ^len. That gr^^t Codi t^K^* fiy; 1" i is infinitely exalted above all other Beings and that infinite Diftance is wh^ hinders his having any Communication with frail Creatures. For what Proportion can there be, add they, be- tween a Being infinitely perfeft and created Be- ings,, full, as we are oP Imperfections and Frail -^ tics. For that Reafon it was, according to themi that Paravaravafiouy that is, the Supreme God, created three 6ther inferior Gods, viz. Brama^ Vichnou and Routren. To the Firft, he has given ehc Power of Creating ; to the Secohd, that of Prcfcrving i and to the Third, that of Deftroy- in^ But thefe three Gods, ador'd hy the Indians ^ are, in the Opinion of their Learned Men, the Sons of a Woman they call Parachattiy that i$, the Sovereign Power. If this Fable were reduc'd to its Original, it were eaiy therein to difcovef the Truth, tho* fo much diiguis*d by the ridicu- lous Notions added by the Spirit of f alfehood. The firft Indians would not fay any thing, but that whatfoever is done in the World, either by Creation, which they affign to Bmma ; or in Prefervation, which is the Part of Vtchmw, or- in the feveral Revolutions, which are the Work of Romren ; proceeds only from the abfolute Power of Paravaravaflouy or the Supreme God. Thofe Carnal Wits have fince made a Woman of their Parachattiy and given her three Sons, which arc no other than the principal Effeds of Omni- potency ,• for, in fhort, Chatti, in the Indian Lan- guage fignifies Power ; and Para, Supreme or Abfolute. j^rwerly This Notion the Indians have of a Being in- worjbif'd finitely fuperior to the other Deities, denotes that 0H$ God. their Forefathers really worfhipp'd but one God, and t)|at Polytheifmy or the Plurality of Deities, was brought in among" them after the fame man-r iicr as it was into all Idolatrou5^ Countries. t tion of them. k:«. 1 J'^*'.^'^^^"'^' "*y ^^f^' fh« this firft Knowledge is a very evident Proof of the Com- munication between the Indians and the Ezn- ttans, or the Jews. I am fenfible, that without any fuchHeIp,the Author of Nature has ingraft- ed this fundamental Truth in the Minds of all Men, and that it is only alter d in them through the Corruption and Depravednefs of theirHearts. ^or the fame Reafon I forbear giving you a-iy Account of what the Indians have thought con-, cerning the Immortality of our Souls, and feve- ral other fuch like Tr«ths ^^ However, I believe you will not be difpleas'd ^^/m- to know, after what manner6Ur Indians fmd the^i?"" 4 RefembJance of Man with the Sovereign Being ;^'; '" flLw/l^^ ^^^ ^"'^^^^- M^^^ folloVwhalE;'..- It^r^t f '['^^W has alTur'd me he has^ In tt^tomi^d. fcrence to that Affair, taken out of one of their moft ancient Books Imagine, fays that Author' a MiUion of large Veflels all fulf of Water, on which the Sun cails the Rays of his Light. That ^^^^T^^ thp'bitone, infSmeman. f Ir^!. ^^'' ^"^ ^"^^ reprefents himfelf in a Jloment, m each of thofe f elfels ; an Image of him extremely like is feen in each of them W ,-c ^"1 p ""u, '^^^'r X<^^^1« f»" of Water ,- the Sun is the Emblem of the Sovereign Being, and" ^JT^7^ '^^ ^"" reprefentfd in elch of «.^LYf^ '* naturally enough lays before us ©ur Souls created to the likencfs of God. 1 will go on, my Lord, to fome Sketches bet- J^'"f^''^^i!^"'^"'^'"TP'°^^'^^^g^'veSatisfaft^^^^ ^ ^X.u'''''^ * Judgment as yours is. Give S.J.?;l^''' 7 "'^'^^ T^^'"^ plainly as I have Icamt them. ^It would be ajtogeth/r necdlcfs, in writing to f(^lea^rned a Prel^^as youiare, to ?«w my parricuiar Kcfiedion^, ' « ' ' I fiVii^'i i>i.j.iU'f* U Pi The Creation of Man, En The Indians, as I fiav*; had the; Honour to in- form you, believp thd,v^ra?na is he, of the three fubalfern Deities, wjio has recejv'd of the fu- preme God the Power of Creating. According-. \y it was :Brama that created the- Srft Man ; but what makes for my P^rpofe, is, that Mrama form.T edMaaoftheSli^eot thelEart^; then juft cre- ated.; It is true, he found fome difficulty in S?fflfW ^^? Work ^ he went about it feveral £mcs: ^nd did t|9t hit it till the third. The Fable h^s added tjiis lail Circumfta'nce to thq 7^ J > ^"^ it is no wonder, that a God of th^ ... • i«fcon(J Rank ihould iiand in needof an A pren- ■ tilhi|> to Team to i^akis.a Man with that perfect '' '• ?^S?fP^^ ^^ ^^ Ws Farts] as we fee him BuJ - }ri {f^f «^ ^4<^^ to that v/hiqcor4ing. to thetn a^feardeno^ great I'lenty, T^iere^js alfo a-Tj-ee-ah^ Fhui'i: MT/iercpf woulil C9niii: Inim6riafi^'5f it w^ -'T "£ a" ' ^l}pw'4 t 7 ] ^low'd to be eaten. It would be ftrange, tii'at f eople who had never heard of the Terreftrial Paradife, fhould, without knowing it, draw a ritture fo very liUe. . ./^ }^ ^}!p ye^y wonderful, my Lord, that the interior Gods, who ever fince the Creation of the World multiply 'd almoft to an ini^ni'te Number, liad not, or u leail were not fure pf th^ Privi- lege of Immortality, which would have been ve- ry acceptable to them. I muft give yo^ a Story the Indians tell to this Purpofe, f his Story, as tabiilous as it is, has certainly no other Original, but the Dodrine of the Jewf, and perhaps even that of the Chriftians. x\T^^^ ^?^^' ^^y ^^^ ^n^inns^ try d all Sorts^of Ways and Mfeans to obtain ImiAortality, Aft^-r much Search, they bethought th'ehifel ves to havfi r^cburfe to the free of Life, whiih was in the Chondm. That' Expedient fiicceede^, and by catmg from Time to Time pf the Fruit pf that Tree, they feciir*d to themselves the precious Treafure, which it fo much; concerns them not , , ,, to^ lofe. A famods Sernenc, ckllM Cheien, pcr^m^^ ceiv d thatthe Tree of Life [ad been difcovVd/Z^rtj by the Gods of the fecond Rahl^: The keeping Tree of of that Tree havingin'all likelihood been com- ^V^^- mitted to his Charge, he was fo ehrag'dat the Trick put upori him, that' he fcatter'd a great Quantity of Poifoti over the Plain. All the Eatth felt the Effeas of it, ahd no Man'was to efcape the Infe^ion of that mortal Poifon : but the God Chiven took Pity or^ Hiimap Nature -h* appear'd in the Shape of Ma^n'i arid ndttin/Ke^ fitating, fwall6w d all that Poifon, wHerewith the malicious Serpent had infeded the dm- verfe. Xou fee, my: Lord, thit Tiimgs' clear up' by Degrees the farther we ^dvkii^^. Bi pleasM to B Uilen [83 liften to Attothcr Fable I am going to tell you; for I ftould certainly impofe on you, did I go aljout to tell you any thing more ferious. You 'vill find no Difficulty in difcovering the jaiftory Of* the Flood> and the principal Circumftancei the Scripture relates. . ftit The Godi RoutYeUy who is the great Deftroyer \lwL of the created Beings, refolv'd one Day to drowfl an Mankind, pretending he had juft Caufe to be diA)leas'd with them- His D-fign could not be fo fecret, but that Vichmii^ the Prcf'^rver of Crea- tures, was fenfible of it. You will perceive, my ■ Lord, that they were conliderably obKg'd to him, iipon this Gccafion. He difcover'd the very fiay precifely on which the Deluge was to happen. Hi$ Power ^id not evtend fo far as to put a Stqp to the Execution of t' ,e God Ro^^^rens Projeds ; but at the fame Time his Qualification of God the Preferver of Things created, impower*d him to prevent, if it were poiTible, the moft perni- cious Effed, and thus he went about it. * ' Noah 8. He appeared one Day to Satti'avart:, his great fbeJrk. Confident, and warn'd him that there would - ihortly be an univerfal De^ige, that the Earth would be drowned, and that Routren defign A no lefs than to deflroy all Men and B afts. How- ever he alTurUhim, }ie had nothing to fear for hjmfelf, and that ^ndefpight of Routren h? would' find ^|ean^ to fave him, and to manage it fo a& the World tiwcltl be peonlf d again. His Defign was, to pvo'liive a wo.iderful JBark, at the Time when Routren leaft thought of it, and to fhut up in it a good Stock of at leaft eight Hun C -6. and forty Millions of Souls and Seeds of Beings. It was atfo requifite, that Sattiavani, at the^Tim^ of the Deluge, fhould be on a, very high Moun- tain. •wrhirK hf moA ♦.it-« r«,^r<:»1 /^^ ^_ i-_ ikP9wn to hm,\^im^T^m^^h^xSmiavartiy aa tell yous did I go us. You : lliftory milances )eftroyer :o drowit ufe to be d not be of Crea- tive, my 1 to him, i^ery.t)ay Jiappen. Jt a Stop Projeds ; of God er'dhim [I jjerni^ bis great £ would le Earth defign'A J. How- fear for ? would' it fo a& 5 Defigii le Time » fhut up •ed ana ngs. It e Time Moun- o. in;aKC artij as . l?ad, l9l )iad been foretold to him, fpy'd an infinite Num- ber of Clouds gathering. He obferv'd, withoi^i any Commotion, the Storm threatning over the Heads of guilty Mortals ; the moft dreadful Rain that had ever been feen fell from Heaven ; the Rivers fwell'd, and ipread themfelves with much Rapidity over the Face of the Earth j; the Sea broke put beyond its Bounds, and mixing with the overflown Rivers, in a Ihort Time eover'd the higheil Mountains ,• Trees, Beafts, :^en, C'l-^ tits and Kingdoms, were all drowned ; all ani- mated Beings p'erijph'd and were deftroy'd. > ^ Jij the meiao Time Suttiavarti, with fome of his Penitents , had withdraw^ {limfelf to his Mountain. There he expeded the Relief pror mis'd him by the God j nor was he without fpme Moments' of Bread. The Water, which continually grew more po\ycrful, and infeniibly drew near his Retreat, every ndw and then put {^im into terrible Frights; but ""^^1* the Name of SatHavarti, the fame, V^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ appropriated to Brama the moft (ingular Adventures of Abrahams Life. Here follow fome Sketches, which feem to me to have a very great Rcfemblance with them. ^ The Similitude of the Names might at firft u^^^S"^^"^ ^^ Conjedures. It is plain that the Difference between Brama and Abraham is not greats and it might be wifli*d, that our Men learned in Etymologies, had not made ufe of others lefs agreable to Reafon, and mdre itramdt ;,i>u v . Sorafva- This Br am a^ whofe Name is fo like that of ^ythe Abraham, was marry 'd to a Woman, whom all ■the Indmns call Sar^vadi. You may jtidge, my Lord, what Weight this Name adds to this Con^ •jefture. The two laft Syllaijies of the Word ^^- n^vadim thQ Indian Language, are an honour-^ a,ble Termination ; fo that Vadi anfwers iitly^ .mou^h to our word Madam. This Termina- ^2-^^/?"*^^ ^" ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^y^^^^ Women of -Biftiftdion; as for Inftance, in that of Parvadi, WifQ xoRoutren. Thus it is evident, that the two firft Syllables of the Word Sarafuadi, which arc properly the whole Name of Brama sV/ik, ^re reduc'd to Sara, which is the Name of Abra- ^m s Wife. «.n-.Rr, '^ Kdweverthere isftill fomething more peculiar: porn^tz- ^rama, among the Indians, like Abraham ^mnr^o- Abra. ^^^ JS^^y has been the Father of feveral diffe- bam. . m^ §ace5, or Tribes. Thofe two Nations ^*- agree ^MK as Sarah, Trths Iain, and ifcover in : and the Writ tells le Prefcr- er repre- \tiia%'artit hama the ms Life, to me to ;m. It at firft Iain that iraham is our Men ie ufe of td mdre that of A^hom all Ige, my his Con- cord Sa- honoiir-j^ rers iitly^ 'ermina-* '^ome.i of Parvadi, that the /, which IS Wife, of Aka-' pecuh'ar: f amotiff al diffe- Nations agree »'■ jagree alfo |?xallly in the Number of thofe Tribcf. At I'kherapali, where at this Time is the mofl: famous Temple of India , a Feltival is kept yearly, on which a venerable old Man, carries twelve CJiildren before him, which, as the /»- dians Cay, rcprefent the twelve Heads of the principal Races. It is true, fome Doftojs arc of Opinion, that the ftid old Man in that Cere- • mbny repi;efents Vkhnou ; but that is not the ge- neral Opinion of the Learned; or of the Multi- ^ tude, who commonly fay, that £r^(»;/3f is Head t. • of all the Tribes. Be that as it will, I do npt think ^ neceifary |hat all Things Ihoiild exa(3;Jy anfwer one another* in order to difcover the Doftrine of the ancient J^ebrews in that of the Indians 5 for tbeije oftea divide among feveral P^-fons, what the Scrip- ture relates of only one, or elfe appropriate to one, what the Scripture a$gns to ma;ny.; but this Difference, in jny Opinion, ougjjit ra,ther to ferve to fupport, than to overturh oujc Con- je(aures ; and I believe that; too precife a iikfeia- * fplance wdui4 only make them li^le to Sufpir cion. : Suppoflng: what has beeAfaid, I will ptace^d* my Lord, in the Relation of what the Midm have bortow*d from the Hiftory of Abraham, whether they attribute it to Brama, or apply it to Honour fome other pf their Gods > pr oi their IjEerpQs. : :> . The Indians reverence the Memory of pne oiP4rallef their Penitents, who, like the Patriarjch -4^/5fr o/.'*'^^ ham, went about to facrifice his Son tQ. qne of t'/^*^ t^he Gods of their Country, That God had de-^**^ manded that Vit^im of him -, but was fatisfy'd with the Father's good Wiil> and would not per?? mit him to put it in Execution. There" are fome , neverthelefs , who iay the Child was put ■«i J "' ft ii I Miteet^ |ntjo Death . but the God refior'd hift t ' '''"'= ™« with a Ciiftom. among one of the *«.«. Races, of /„^,«, which has furpris'd me it is that they callthe Race of Robbers. Do!/ot be' Hew, my Lord, that, becaufe thJre is amon? there People a whole Tribe of Robbe s, there! Zf.r f *"■'* '"'° °'"' particular Bodyf and that they have a peculiar Privilege of Robbine «xclu&e to all others. Hereby is^ohly to be u^! derftood, that all the MiaJof theVaid Raci •. do aauallx rob; without any Remorfe,. but the K&"' '''' *'^ -' *^ -'y P-Ple t«- ' ha^^hWntt "'^"•')-^ °^.'^^ P<»"°«' which I have thought requiiite, 1 return to my Story T r "''*" Notice, that among tWfa'5 Tribe, they obferve the Ceremony of Circnrn? W nL ,"%" u ""' I?«'-%m"'' in their Infancv ; and not till about the Age of twenty Years ' Men of the Race receive it. That Cuftom is rhJ^K^?-"'' ^"'^ " " ^''"^ ?° '^^'■•^o^" whenci to fdtlatrj: """""^ "^'"P'' altogether devoted _ Your Lopdftip has ften the Hiftory of trie ^^J"i°{^'"'^' '" «'*»»» and j'««;«^«„,-. *■' ^1. ■*^f"?<^'°"'«,y°" alfo, to fee that of ,T^:^ci . ^^^ nT <^<"*'' and I am fully per- > ■ the othm" - '''"' '^"*'*"°" ^" " f^"" ^^ S..- than the- /W«„ k,A«o« metamor-hos'd into CM^n ; for in the firft Place Chrich„en, in the ^to denote,that Chxiohnen came from a Country, ' ^ •" where Circuni' (ifion iicn iCTves ^here the Inhabitants are black. The Indians add, that one of Chrkhnen*s nearcft '^elations was expos d in his Infancy, in a little Cradle, oa . a great River, where he was in evident Dangei: of penfting He was taken up, and being a very beautiful Child , was carry'd to a great Princefs, who caus'd him to be carefully brought up, and afterwards provided for his Educa- tion, I know not why the Indians chofe rather to aj^ply this Accident to one of Chrichnen's Rela- tions, than to Chrichnen himfelf What ftall wc do in this Cafe, my Lord 1 1 muft tell you Things as they really are , nor will I go about to dif- guile the Truth, to make the greater Refem- ' .^L ^^,^^^^n ^he Adventures. Thus it was not Chrtchnen, \SMt one of his Relations, that was bred up m the Palace of a great Princefs. In this Point, the Comparifon with Mofes is de- Kat DTfea. '^"^"^ "^^^ "^^^^ ^^-^ ^--'^^- As foon as Chrichnen\izs born, he was alfo ex- Chrich- pos d on a great River, to deliver him from the n^n ex- Kings Indignation, who watch'd the Moment ^''n-'" of his Birth to put him to death. The River re- "" ^'"^' fpeftfully open'd both Ways, and would not per- mit Its Water to offend that precious Charge. The Infant was taken from that dangerous Plafe, and brfed up by Shepherds. He afterwards mar- ked the Daughters of the Shepherds, and for a long Time kept the Flocks belonging to his Fa- thersmLaw. He foon fignaliz'd himfelf, among . cu r J^^" did he perform Wonders in Behalf of his Flocks, and ofthofe that kept them. He new the King, who had made cruel V/ar upon them. He was purfn d by his Enemies, and not Deingin a Cond'f'Qn f^ w*-^'''^''"'^ *' — ^ • tir'd I'-,,^ tH3 the Sea tir'd to the Sea, which openM a Way for him td £' ^''l!f ^^^^^/>"gh the midft of it, and then fwallow'd thofe that purfu d him. Thus it was he efcap'd the Torments prepared for him. After this, who can queftion, but that the /«- ^ans had fome Knowledge of Mofes, under the isame of Vichnmy metamorphos'd into Chrkh^ nen ; but they have added to the Knowledge of that famous Leader of God*s People, that of fe- veral Cuftoms, which he has defcrib'd in his u °J^J./"^ ^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ws he eftablifh'd, and the Obfervation whereof continued after him. Jewifh Among thofe Cuftoms, which the Indians can Cujloms. have had from none but the JeiLs, and which Itill continue in the Country, I reckon their fre- quent Bathing, their Cleanfings, an extraordi- narjr Horror for dead Boclies, by touching of which they believe themselves defil'd , the di- Itinft Order, and the difference of Races, the inviolable Law, which prohibits marrying out of their peculiar Tribes, or Races. I fhould never have done, did I go about to fum up all Parti- culars. I ftick to fome Remarks, which are not altogether fo common in the Books of the Learned. ' I kne w a Brachman reckned of great Capacity among the Indmns, Who told me the following btwy, t:he Meaning whereof he did not com- •, .. PJ^h^^^d^himfelf, as long as he continu'd in the ^Mcufice parknel s of Idolatry. The Indmm pbform a Shicp cu^'i '' '^^"''^ ^^'^'^' ^^^^^ '^ ^^'^ ^^^ noted* P' of all th at are perform'd in India ; in it they of- feraShc^ep, at it they recite a Prayer, in which the folio wmg Words are pronounced with a loud' Voice, ] 'Vhen -miU it he that the Saviour mil be torn ? U ^en wiH it be that the Redeemer will ap^ fear f ^ This t »5 I This Sacrifice of a Sheep feems to me vehr t r-_ itis to beobfervd, as to that Particular , that ''"/''«' as the %,,. were all oblig'd to eat Part of the ^"*- Viaun, fo the Brachmen, tho' they are not al! Kf^t%'"^fi''"''/'?.''''>^"'^"^-«h on the JJay of the Sacriiice of Ekiam, and oblig'd by wtacl. they divide among themfelves. There ;f, . |*«"'fi" «<> that Eletaejit. «f ^i,* 0«!f kt ?•? "• ^'■^f'P' f°f the. Sacrifice of 0«», by which ,t is ordain-d always to keep up affilts at the £^,«», is oblig'd to put Wood to Thif !;trr^ ^°'?'"S »"'! Evening, to feed it. This nice Care anfwers exaflly enough to the ^ T»7mT" '" ^'r™;' Chap»/ver. J, Jf-^oi on .t every Morning, the Fire fijs evTie hwrnmg upon the Altar, it Jbatt never A mt. The m^am have done fomething more in regard to tl ^"m 11^:^ "* themfelves headlong into the midft of Flames. You will think, my uX as I do, that they would have done much bettet m not adding this cruel Ceremony to what cuL ""^ ^"^ ** '*>'■''* ^«'i- The Indiana have alfo an extraordinary No- ^v,.^, W °f2:?v""-T.-^'''^ ''^"^^^ *<""^ Cr/atures«;^;v. have fomething Divine, and that the Sight of them IS fortunate. Thus many worfliip Ser- bating their Worihippers after a cruel Manner: Had the Brazen Serpent, which AS,/" fhoWd to the People of Gnd. an/4 ...U.Vl. I... rj L._ , * - ' '^ - -.» n«**t v/nA*ji iititi vi i'y only looking chanty tovaii Slaves* Brama Vedatn ibehaw. RefpB for the Law, looking On It, been as cruel as the Indian livin'g Serpents, I queftion, whether the Jews would c^cr l^ave been tempted to worfhip it; - In fine, my Lord, let us add the Charity the Indians have for their Slaves. They treat them almoft asf well as their own Children ; they take gteat Cate to educate them well ;• they fupply thensbountifially with all Things • they want for nothing, either, as to CIdathing/ or Suftenance • they matry them, and feldom fail to make them free.^ Does not this look as ii Mofes had pre-" fcrib*d the Precepts we read in Leviticm as to this Point, to the Iridiansy as well as to the yetus ? ... What likdihoo'd is there t"heri; my Lord, that the Indians had not formerly fome Knowledge of the Law o£ Mofes .? What they farther add, con- cerning their Law and their Legiflator Bramay feems to me evidently to remove all Doubt ttiatf might occur as to this Particular. Brama gave the Law to Men. It is that ^-' dam, or Book of the Law, which the Indian^ look upon as infallible. It is ; according to tbem , the Word of God , dilated by the Ahadam , that is , by him who cannot be miftaken , and who effentially tells the Truth; 'l\i^Vedamy or the Law of the Indians ^ ii divided into four Parts ^ but, according to the Opinion of feveral learned Indians , there was formerly a Fifth, which has been loft by Length of Time, and could never be reco- ver'd. The Indians have an inconceivable Efteem for the Law they have receiv'd from their Brama. The profound Rf fped with which they hear it repeated, the Choice of proper Perfons to read It, the Preparations to be made in Order to* lt> dnd an Hundred vc\c\ve furh CWrxy^si^*.r.^c . are C 17 ] ^■e perfcaiy agreable to what we Icnow of the yews.m relation to the Holy Law, and to m. Jes, who rcveal'd it to them. .1,/r V I"""'!-'' "' "y ^'■'*' tliat the Refpea that they keep it from us as a Myfterv never to enn^^rTr ** '"c I ''='^« "^verthelefs learnt ftnfible, that the Books of the pretended Bra- The firft Part of the FeJam, which they call k,.« ("■'u^^vedam, treats of the firft Caufe, and of So/ the Manner how the World was created. What^'^n". they have toli me moft Angular, in relation to?^ "'f- ourSubjea, is, that in the Beginning there was """'• nothing but God and the 4ter ;^ and that God mov'd upon the Waters. It is ^afy^nongh ChattS i^y^r' ''" "''""" ^'■^ '^ jn the third Book , which they caU Samavedam , mt'^' there are many Precepts of Morality ; that feems%. 1 "^ ."^o anfwer the Moral Precepts fcatter'd about m £x(i^«j. ^ "V'^'^^t The fourth Book, which they call Adar^a^n, ^^^.« contains the diiferent Sacrifices they are^^trt. of \nZ- ' ."? ^Qualifications requifite in the^i"i/f- X^TT'f ""^ fanner of building the Temples. «'• and the feveral Feftivals that are to be obferv'd! 4™I%oT^'*°r ^ """;•' ''ivining, may be a No- tion taken from the Books of U-vitkm and Ueuterommy. ^ In Conclufion, my Lord, that nothing m^ymsta^ be wanting to the Parallel ; as it was on the fa-jit, ^ mous Mountain of Sinai that Mofes receii^'d th'^ '^ ^°^^' i-aw, (o was it on the renowned Mountain o?''"'* C Maha- houmi i ^*ii|' t«8] Mahamerou, that Brama had the Vedam of the Indians. This iN^oimtain of /«<:^m is the fame the Greeks call'd Aferox, where they fay Bacchm was born, and which was once the Manfion of the Gods. The Indians to this Day fay, that this Mountain is the Place, where the Chor' chants, or the feveral Paradifes they own are pIicM. Wi|l it not be proper, rtjy Lord, that ha- ving faid enough concerning Mofes and his Law, we fhould ^^L^ fomething <;;oncerning that Prophet's Sifter Miriam. If I am not miich miftaken , her Hiftory has not been altogether unknown to our Indians. The Scripture tells us, th&t *Miriant, after the miraculous pa/Ting of the Red Sea, affem- M^rif " bled the ffraeftte Women, took mufieal Inftru- iriam. jjpeptj^-njjci fgn ^ dancing with her Companions* and finging the Praifes of the Almighty. Here follows an Account nothing unlike, which the Indians give of their famous Lakehotmi. That Woman, as Well ^s Miriam^ Sifter to Mofes^ came out of the Sea, after a miraculous Man- ner. 1 No fooner had fhe efcap'd the Dan- ger, wherein fiie had like to have perifh'd, then Ihe made a magnificent Ball, at which air the Gods and Goddelfes datic'd to the Mufick of Inftruments. It would be eafy for me, my Lord, to leave the Books of Mofes, and running over the hifto- rical Books of Scripture to find in the Tradi- tions of onr Indians tnow^h. to continue my Pa- rallel J but I fear that too much Exadnefs wruld be tirefome to you. I will reft fatisfy'd with telling you one or two Stories more, which have touch'd me mofta and fute beft with my Subje(ft. The C 19 1 , The firft which occurs is, that the Indians ipread abioad under the Name of ArkhandiYen. Me was a very ancienr King of /«^,Vi , and bating the Name, and fome few Circumftan- ces, wiH appear, rightly taken, to be the 7o^ Of the Scripture. '^ ^ '^^ ^^ ^^ ^"^ ^^y ^^ ^^^'"^ CUrcam.AxU or Paradife of Delight. D.ye»diron the Goddhandl- oj Olory, pre/ided in that great AfTembly. «« »'»* Ia^ "Tf ^^^^^"5 ^ '"^f^^^y 'T'^^ong of Godsf'^' " and Goddefe , the mofi famous Penitents had ^°^' AnchoH ^^ ^ ^"'^ ^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^" P""*^ After fome indifferentDifcourfcthis Queftion was put : Whether there were a fauItlefsPrince among Mankind ? Aimoft all the Congreea- tion^ffirmd there was not one, but who was rub;e« to many Vices, and Vtchowua^outven headed that Party, but the renowned VachktH ten was of another Opinion , and pofitivcly toaintam d, that King Anchandiren, his Dif- ciplci was a blamelefs Mnce. mchou-ua^momreuy who being of an imperious Temper, cannor endure to be contradic^bed, flew out into a ffrcat Paflion, and afllir'd the Gods, that he would icon make them-fenfible of that pretended per- feft Princes Failing^; if they would forfaJie nim. V^'fchten accepted the Challenge, and it was ms Tri* agreed, that he of them two who got the bet- ah. ter, fiioiUd refign to the ot?her all the Merits of a long Pemianee. Foot King Arkhandiren, fell a baerifice to this Controverfy. p-khouva-mou- *rf « put him upon ^H Tryals. He iteduc'd him to extreme Poverty^, debriv'd him of his King- dom, 'ith the confufe Notion: the Indian a /«^w«j^ ftill retain of the adorable Trinity , ^o^'^'w ^ ^hidh:;was:formerly j>reach'd to them... I have *^'' ^"" r already vgivenyoiir Lordihip an Accouttt of'"?'- the three Priocipal Indian Gods, vi%^^B^m^y Vichnou and Routren. Moft of the Gentils, fay, nd laftly, that he takes the IsTame of Routrim^ i^^^n he dej(lroys ToWnsi when he : -puniftef the Wicked, and makes us feci iche Ef-. Jiefts of hi^ laft Indignation. i.-r; .^ r?. But ar. fe\^ Years ago, a Brachmanihustx- pounde'd hi3 Notion oC thei^bulous Trinity I have, I lwv<;5, MAHy God and his three fev^r»l 9 I Namesi n vat ion how re- Kamcj, whifch infwcr to his three priridpal Attributes, much in the Nature ot thcic Tr i»t angular Pyramids w? fee rais'd before the Gates of fome Temples, You are fenfibie, my Lord, that I do n6t j:!"*«'end to tell you this Imagination of the bin iiians aniwciS ?vawafi:es away all Sins, and that fiicji miyifterious ^Water does not only clearife the 'Mcidy^ ;but Hk^ ^pirifites the Soi^l, afr^r an admirable Manner. 'May not that be feme Remtiant of the No- ^fbn^formerly given them of holy fiafftifm. Some- - -: Mad ^ot ita'keii Nocice of any thing allndirig ^^'^^gpf^t)k&ho\Y Eutharifls, -but la cofl verted Brack-- ^j^^';^*Mi» made me fdfitea:, fome ^jsi^ ago, upon a • ^ "Circumftance confldeJ#able enough to deferve la Place We. ' The Remains of the Sacrifices, aifdthe Ric.^ tb^t is diftributek in the Temptes •7*-. U^ ^^Hiitift&f 'P^(y^ddrH, Wbo^ /»<^^ 'Word in oitr f>mj'l V -' ' Language .^, ; Language fignifics Divine Graccy which Is the fame we exprcfs by the Greek Word Eucha- rift. It is a Sort of Maxim among the IndiansyCovfef- that he who confefles his Sins, fboiild receive)?on. pardon ; Cheida far am chounal 'Ttroum. They celebrate a Feftival every Year , during the which they go make their Confeflion on th^ Bank of a River, to the End their Sins may be quite wip*d away. In the famous Sacrifice of Ekianiy the Wife of him who prcHdcs is oblig d to make her Confeffion, to be particular in the Account of her moft humbling Faults, ^rid to tell even the Number of her Sins, An Indian Fable, which I Have been told, will farther corroborate my Ccnjeftures. ' When Chrichnen was in the World, th^h- FalU mous JDreufadi was Wife to five renowned Bro- about ii, thers, all of them Kings of Madure. Qne of thofe Princes upon a certain Day, fhot an Ar^- row at a Tree, which ftruck dowti an admi- rable Fruit. The Tree belongM to a Penitent of great Note, and had fuch a Quality, that it bore one Fruit every Month, and that Fruit gave fo much Strength to the Perfon who eat It, that he had no Occaifion for any other jiourifhment during the Month. But the Curfe of Penitents being much more dreaded in tho'^- remote Times than that of the Gods , tbe live Brothers were under much Apprehenfioh of fome Imprecation firOm the Hermit. ^ Th?y therefore intreated Chrichnen to aiSft them in that dangerous Coniundure. The God Ftchnqu mctamorphoi'd into Chrichnen^ told them,^ and Drapandiy who was alfo prefent, that he knew but one Way to make Amends for ^o gf^at^^^ Evil, which was to ai^i^ au.eati^rc Cuiuemon C 4" h if * II C 24 3 of all the Sins of their whole Life • that th,-' Tree from which the Fruit fell w . & CAiis high, that the Fruit would rife up one Cub t "n fon a'n/\r^^ % ^^/■".■"^d^ their ctftf- fX^ • " "'f ^'"' °^ 'he laft it would faften again to the Tree, asit wa, befo°e ' It was a harft Remedy, but it inuil be ap- The five Brothers fct their Refolutfori, and ^onfented to difcover all. The Difficult; eon^ • t «1^^ .K p*'-'''* to prevail op het; When Lnd n„ T , ^°'-' °^ *'"'"S their Faults, ffie tound no Inclination to make the Difcoverv b« was for keeping her own C6^!^tZl flSl'ctir ^'"■"/ft "-erfintrng to her the ,call their Penitents, his Curfe; they niade her promife whatfoever they dcfiry- -' ^ ■P,I;^J'^^ ^°' this Affurance, the efdeftof the Prices began that heavy Ceremftny, i„4 made .As he fpokc the Fruit mounted up tff it felf raid 7AT 1"^' ■ °"' ^l^''^' th/Etidof the J^id firft Confeffion. The four 'other Pririces t^thepiT/u'^W T" =o«inu'd,-thatis |t the End of the Confeffion of the -fifth tht ^Frmf was exaftly five Cubits high. -^ on'l?f ,mg Stroke was referv'd for DrMpaSf. After ,|uch^ftrugh.ngfc, began her Cd/ftffion.tnd If Sh'^ =''i«ded by Degrees; She pretended Wt i°"r ^!''* ^'" ''^'"' ^•-•ntedhi.Jf a Co- Sch- it ha?6n'° 'T *^ '^^^= ^S^*'*^' fro™ ^^A!::i'ttA "^' ^ *.■•", Gafe that ' " *^ '•' ^.* *?>"*'f ^'^^Vvfti a lomethJHg-. tilt five tii 1 le five Brothers' intrcated hd rtoe to ruM herfcif bv a pernicious Baftfulnefsi and not toi involve them in her Misfortune. Their Prayers .were of no EfFed; but Ghric^ek Coming in to their A/fiftance, fhe.reveal'd.a Sin committed by Thought, which flic wouiaiiaVe conceal'd. No fooner had IhQ. done, bH^ ^he Fruit con- eluded Its wonderful Afcent, ^M of itfelf went and^vlpve to the -tonch on which it had hung before. ' " ** Widi'this l^Iel.j^ii'put an End to the lP.n^.J-ftter, .1 Jiaye. taken tlr^ Liberty to ^me-to your Eei'(fffilp.:> I have therein given you an Account of what I have learnt among the People of India, formerly, in all likelihood Chriltians, and fallen again long fincc into the parknefs of Idolatry. The Mi/Tioners of our Society, following the Steps of St, Frands Xa^ -venm, have been for a Century paft, labour- ing to bring them back to the Knowledge of the true God, and the Purity of the Gofpel -Worgup. \ irSTfee; my Lordrthat artHelame Tinie we endeavour to m^ke thefe wi^tched People ftnfibleot the Eafinefs of the Yoke of Jesus C H R 1ST, we alfo ftrive to ferve the learned ot Europ, in fome Meafure, by the Difcove- ries we make in thefe Countries, which arc not well known to them. It is your Lord- mips Part, by your profound Penetration, fP^ y;?F <^ontinual Converfation with Men Jl^Wj.i"iv Antiquity, to fupply what may be wanting on oar Part , as to what Light we gain among thefe People. If thefe new iJilcoveries be of any Ufe for the Advan^ Cin.£J of Religion, nn Man It tQ «0 imprtfuf^ tkm than you. 1 ;^ii with t^f P Mx ItiQIlEb " ■ : ■ JTour Lor^''^-" ' ■ -" X fi' 'r' v>itr , . ■- A LET- I 1 - '^ •r] ?fv'^ •ftpc l.^ >■«*» t97l T"!'^" ' • fi f R O M V.;i X*U Miflioner of the S OC I E T Y «f ■tij iO To I. B4L7US, y ., . ;.■ ..... or ttefaiMB s o c IE T ri , ^EY^REND Father; IHa c read ^yioar Anfwer to the Hiftoty pf Oracles^ with increciible Satisfadu^m. !rhe faslfe jReafons on which the dange- rous SyJftem you have undoftsken to cte- >^fieoy was groutided, can bene betser conitod <«feftnyii»u have done, ^ *:^_ '!--..„ .-^_f-^:^ui ..»^.)a .f.^^^! asfc^ sl. feffierfy «gavc Ottt vbcir Oracle %«heMotfObs ■' •-''■ ^ ' of v:\ W',% Tho' It be a difficoit Matter to add anv J^'"? .'° ,(? ™='"y convincing Prao6 as your Book IS aWjvitb, and ,«4u<£ you W dS. fcaed ft ;.^ . "S reaftnable can be ob- Efni* SrA' "-' y^"-" i'^?' "^«" fro™ the feZ^tf-fl, °^i"'5".%« "u^frointha^ which nons ot Ma^ar^ and C^ra^j^, 31,4 thereof T . >ve been, myfeiF a Witn^fl.; '' *" ,. '!.!!.;''*^ / *it. w ray i^ite ro the preachini? of the a?th'e fare°T^- ''' /"f ^l! ^^/«^"' -d tave! five thre "^"^.^ .^" Satisftaion to ob, trWdi^l'^r ^^ ^''o'^P'-odigies which con- Day/ fct:Srt"'^''^i t^^^S'-? « "^« f™ f * '!2°"S t''°'« Chriftian Congregations nlidft of nnbeWeWng Coiintfies ' ^ F«L ,„fl "'" '5"d '"^«^ble Prooft of two Truth. OruUj ^0"r WflHr .,:For, inthc^rft Place, it is tet- «.India.t«lVth3t;ite Devils to this Day Kr (^ -rf'thetdtf '"*^.t^ 'hey do it/not b"M± te«d in r ' J^'''^.'' would be liable to.FdId Sf thnf"*^""' I'i"'; ^J' 'h.e Mouths of th*pS Oracies 1^9} Cracks begin to ceafe in this Country, and thatr; the Devils grow Dumb ^nd Joie their FoWery: by Degrees, as the faid Co^ntry re- ceives the. Light of the GofpeJ., Some Time fpent in the MifliG^ of India is'fuficient to convince any Man of the Truth of thefe two Propofitions. i • If it f^all pleafe th^ Almighty to reiftore me to. that jdear Mi/fion, which I left ^gainft my Willi and to which I am immediately to return, there to fpend the Remainder of my Health and Life, I will fend you a more ample Ac- count of fome particular Anfwers, and of certain Oracles, which cannot have been de- liver'd by any but the Btvil It fhall Tuff ce for - the prelent to offer you fome general Prooft, which cannot but be acceptable to you ^^To begin, it is a Matter of Fad, which rio Priejlso, JMan m /ndia makes any DouSt of, and which ^^^^^' the Evidence of it does not allow to be call'd^''-^^^''^' m Queftion, that the Devils deliver Oracl.es, and that thofe Evil Spirits pofTefs the Priefts that call upon them , or even indijfierently any of thofe who are prefent , and Parta- kers in thofe Spectacles. The Priefts of the Idols . ive abominable Prayers to addrefsthem-^';,:" ' felves to the Devil, when they confult him up- "^ on any Event ^ but Woe be to that Man the- Devil makes choice of as his Organ. He puts all his Limbs into an extraordinary Agitation, and makes him turn his Head after a moA ^^^j A ^ Manner. Sometimes he makes him fhed Abundance of Tears, and fUls him with that Sort of Rage and Enthufiafm, which was formerly among the Pagans, as it is {kill amone thQindiansy the Token of the Devils Prefence, . and the Prelude to his Anfurerc ' As W . ■ t' h / & m As {boti as thofe Signs of theSucGeftttf" tfc* Prayers, or Charms , appear, either in the Tndky or any other of the By-ftamters, they rfrawncar to the Perfon poffefs'd, ahd pJt Qucfttonsto him rclatinr to the Succefs of the Aferittffand. Then the Deril delivers him- into. The Anfwers are eommonly fuch as will »ftr a double Meaning, when the Q«eftions jmt relate to Futurity. Nwerthekfrhe hits right often enough, and anfwers fo exaaiy, that the moft clear lighted are at a lofs ; but ftill there is enough, as well in the Ambiguity of certain Anfwers, as in the Exaanefs of others to convince a Man, that the Devil is the Au^ thor of them • for after all, as difeerning as he IS, Fttturity, when it depends on a Free Caufc, IS not certainlv known to him^ and on the other Hand, hll Conjeftures being commonly very well grounded, and his Knowledge fit above ours, it is no wonder he fcould fome- nmes hit off a Thing upon Occafion, when the Iharpeft and moft ingenious Man would varv much from his Thoughts. ^ & ''/Of the Idols, m Imitation of the Oracles i^allv r/|iV.f«I^^crdbv the Devils, do fometimes artful- ly counterfeit Perfons poffefs'd, and give fuch Aniwcrs as they are able to thofe that confult them ,• yet, after all, that DiiUmulation, is, as 1 have told you, only an Imitation of the X ruth ,• beiides that, the Devil is generally fo ready to anfwer their Summons, that they fel- dom ftand in need of Fraud. I do not propofe to bring vou a great Number of Examples, but accept of this one, which occurs to my Me- mory, and which, in my Opinion ought to convince cbnvirtcc every Man of Sehfc th^t tkc DcvH has really a Part in tfce Oracles given in India. On the Way from VaYttngapumto Calpaham Strawy ftands a famous Temple, by the In^ans c&lTdSfor/of Changandi. To the Eaftward of that Temple, ^^ ^»' and at about half a Leagues Diftance from itJ.rJ.V*-''- is a pretty p^^polous Town, renowned ibr the • Paflage I am going to relate. One of the In- habitants of this Town was highly favoured b/ the Devil -, to him^he moft ft^tly imparted him^ felf, in fo much as to poflefs him upon a cei«- tain Day every Week, delivering by his Mouth ihoft furprizin^ Oracles. The People thronged to hisHoufeto confult him. However, notwitb- ftanding the Honour paid him on Account ^f the Diftindion the Devi! made of his Perfon, he began to grow weary of his Employment The Devil, who brought him fo ftiany Vifits grew troublcfome, he never ceas*d, but he put him to abundance of Pain at parting, and the poor Wretch might make Account that he wa^ lure one Day in every Week to endUre a vio- lent Diftempcr. Something ftill more vexa- tious afterwards hapned to him ; for the Devif, who by his Means gain'd the Dependency ahd Adoration of an innumerable Multitude of i>f- diansy refolv'd to remain feveral Days po{ftfs*d of him, in whom he found himfelf fo highly honour'd. Neither did he ftay long away when gone, and feem'd to go and come to no other End than to renew the Dread he occafion'd at his coming, and to repeat the Torments that attended at his Departure. His frequent and tedious Vifits proceeded fo far, that the miferable Indian found himfelf quite difa- hhd from providing for his Family , wWch ycc ! i c§v1 ynt could not fubiift without him. ' lis Kiri-i ^ed being much, diiturb'd repair'd to feve- ral Temples , to beg of the falfe Gods to - give a Check to, or at Icaft eafe the Violence of that wretched Spirit; but thore pretended Dei* Mes, had too eood an Underiianding with the Devil, agamft.whom their AMance was" im. Plord, to grant anv thing to his Difadvantage. .Thus nothing of what was fu'd for could be ob- .tamdi the Deva became more outrageous, and contmu d as he had done before, to deli- .F^r his Oracles by the Mouth of his old Hoftv with only this Difference, that he tormented inm much more violently , -^ad at laft gave Caufe to apprehend that he would be the Death of the poor Man. ,,.,,,j . . '^ . The Ca/e being almoftde^erate, it wasccm- eluded, tiiere could be no other Remedy, but to make Application to hiin that did the Mif-^ chief. It was iupposM, that he would vouch- safe to give an Oracle in Favour of a Wretch, by whofe Means he deliver'd fo many others t^r^lt''^\'''^ ^^i^'^^^y ^" '^' ^^^"^«g> they put the Queftion to him, to know, wheVher he would Lot depart, and what he requir'd for Ihortning the Number of his Vifits, and eafing the Seventy of them. The Oracle anfwer'd! ii^uV^^ "^'^^ ¥^"^^y to Changandi^, he E.^i^^"'''''''' "" "^^^' "^^ -^^^^^ ^-y ^wl?"'^^? "^^""^ punaually executed,in Hopes that the unfortunate F Jlow would be deHver'd. He was carry d to Changand^ on the Eve of the Day appointed by the Devil , but was worfe neara to cry out m a. moft At-^oAf,.] \/f..,„^- like %ttie' Tim f^mii^g. a|j>«h JU ontw^diu, ^d 'Rngm-'^im Modklajiicomc/ the Orack-was JterW ftfliiaMi .'bCit affer 4imry. difFcrewt Mail> %c¥^t^aH^h^d«ytefl^;«lpedJilL^ for th« Sdmomt jexfHi Ji"^ith*lttbft.d*a4ftil GbuvnlTionsi :;ift»t 'having Hm'^^b^ndanak^ty(jSaood\3£,^cl^He{i; 3^5 and Mouth ; which in India is therufunl •Si^n df^'rD.lt^trtj^f irtd %aWi,] occifuwicd^ by , . ^fe^ing^pptefe'^ti/r'.Thu^thefi^^^ *rs 'Qi-^del v'^uring that the .wrctdfc^iOSim Mm fcajfk ^^M '-Cftk<^ zan> ^'i '^rl n!i .. , , ^T-;^/f -i:^ ;w,i'-dw auHT 'thdfe ]Meft« Wei4 iw,' at f(»..tragicirtan/Ev«tf. ^1 dt$' tifllfcfe mi, ho Man^dlieh^did iuitli€(j4i>ft. mivt. dl^i 'Nd-P do r biii<^eiottr*mQfl7hiiro^ thatiOpte^n.'lfiHelMj^ •^d;fi«|eik«©etfthoPheiilHikbani.w^sufcRja i S'?t£ f i^^.^Y^''^^' to -^KikbAi, biix^rC^^t ^t^":;f»ff ^; ^^ Gofifeftk«a aUd./evfiraL.irimfs v-a.., 'iaai& htt'mm, thjr^toiijr/'in ;th6 Bt9^mcc^£ . ••'« the Idolal<#r^^j:bfif iofi{n^rihi.lhe.,Prere«M» ^pr ''^^^^'^ "the Ghhftiiins/ ^Whcf refi&roeditd 0*1 CHarchilT ;'WHifeh i^'Dbxwli ftre-VeiV^reaueiitlyH4oii&k*l «;.«/ ^HMta, Among ^U D^liverers'gf Oraclej, thofe r-^^/''. D fire l 34 3 arc ^rtainly moft in R«putation> who under- take to difcover Thefts and Robbenes^ which cannot otherwife be found out After tiding all common and natural Means, they have Re- courfe to this, and to the (^eat Misfortune of thofe poor Idolaters, the Devil is but too fei> viceable to them in this Point. AmaaJngThingt have hapned as to this Particular, in my Time i I will mention one which you may depend upon. J notdhle Some Jewels of great Value h^d been fo dex* Storyto terouHy and fecraly ftolen 6:0m the General of jfjji ly. of the Army of Madure, that he who had done ^*" it feem'd to be out of the Reach of Sufpicion. Thus, whatfoever Means could be ns*d to find 4Mit the Theif there could not be the leafl Indi- cation ' of him. A : younj Man at I'kherapaltg ^ho was oneof the molt famous Diviners in d« Country, was confulted. He having in- ;yok'd the Devil, fo exaftly defcrib'4 the Theif, ttot 4C was no difficult Matter to know him. *I1ic Wretch, who had been fo far from being calfd in (^eflioh, that no Man had ever fu- ibeiSied him, could not fland out againfb the Orad&s he own*d his Crime, and protefled there was nothing natural in the Maimer of dif* covering his Thd^. ^ ' ^ Whenfeveral Pcrfons are fufpe^ed of a Theft> and no one of them can be particularly con-* vided; this is i' Method they take to find €Uit the Criminal. . ^ht Names of each of thofe 5J25^rf.fcfofpefted are writ upon! pajticular Bits of 'Paper, and orderly laid round in a Circle. Then the Devil is «all'd upon, with the ufu- . al Ceremonies, and they Aj^ithdraw, after ' liaving fiiut up and 4;ov«i:'d (b€ Ciidci fo that Hovf to find a Thief many 91 S n yUlJ- K I'iZ "iliiO^,^'. o C3$3 no Man can come at it. Some Time after thcv return, dilf over the Circle, and he whofe Name IS found out of its proper Place is concluded to be the only guilty Pv rfon. This Sort of Oracle has fo often and infallibly been ferviceaj)lc to the Ittdmttfy for difco vering of a Criminal ataione fcvcrarinnocent Perfons, with certainty, thtt Jt IS Proof enough without; any other to ttV a Man upon.'". - ' ' • - ja// zw o? ijsb'tsi,:/ r '^h^. ^*? ^!H another Way the Dev-ift hatrc Vhinai for dchyering themfelvcs in /ffdia, and aftfvtreiv*w» ^ ^u^ ^vT-^Jlf QH?^*ons Pwt to them, which ii in ^'"^* the Night, and by means of Dreamsi Tt is true, this Way has feem'd to me more liable to I'raudj; bik after all, there occur in it fuch lurprizmg Things, and fuch fingular Git-ciim- ftances, that there is no BdUbt but that the Devil ha« a confiderable Shiie^ in it, and thit he really makes Ufe of that Method to inform the Prielts of the Idols who make it their Bii- linefs to call upon him. • • ^^n i oj I give you but a few Inftanccs of what I af- fert, not that they are rare in /«^m, 6r that there are not frequently fomc to be met with, which are not to be calf d in Queftion ; but die Thing itfelf is fo far from being doubted in die Coun^fv, that no Man thinks of colteairig them. However, if you delire more Particu- lars, 1 wiU not fail giving you that Satisfaftioh. ^^ T!?".!?. '^ ^^^' P^eaip God to reilore me ^o my Chriftian Congregation at Madure, vihith A long for more ardently than I can welf^^- But after all, what Reafon can thci

«- 1 / I t a;,thcy pert\ir:,inia4e of, th<: Branches. Qt i^ees cut pfti ;ffifi n6. whe . fafti)^^- ^'^^'^^\ • , jtjiers^aift upjn^ the Air ^ §))ect;,,;^ich is extended to his whole Length and Jj^readth, b^ . Wjl^icfith^ piiPtve/ that the JJevjii jis re^jy fami- 'ijiir i>yM theiDf ,,\$aYe I?ee^lf9;t9ld;l?y ^M^n.pf Gr^dir, .^p4-iHirho, B^y. /af^ly, fje; bpliev fL chp.t.l}9 l^apned .,^va5 np renf^pvmg of jt -■Wr^h^wt: m4cJi,J[;)iiSfulty;Vn?^y^rthd4^ (was jfe[&n.fto break, lpo/f,;9f.itfelf, ;^n^^,^p ^pve for- *,yyardsi iCpnfjdejra|:»lp^ Way,, from, th^ |*lape, where y/j^"^a^ beeq, faftped^^ lyfthpu^; f^jyjftrf^itw^"- :. Wgfi P^y*^ ittucif as, ppming n^ar^it. , ;A4d ^^ this, pf^f P,?fe I>eviV, jf^f r jtf u,c to jiimfftlf m# Ages ^114. f,^ all.Plac^,ijOfif^n requiy^spf djole who ^,4%'f ^B^led, w^ie9,;t j^aljor, their . the/ £ »7 } %\i%y thjnk, I (ay_, it tlfey^ were, as we are Eye Witneflcs of ifjie tt^licl; Ty.ratiny the D^Vif iex^ ^iifcs pvc^AW id6lat«irs in /«^m ? Thdfe'Wi'ck^ «a ^pinWomidfties ^refs down' their HeUds ^io ld "^va b:.-. iJ3!.ir>fJ rr-> .^ •: cs ,vi ^'>- Tou tee "P have a littlfcidigrc/^'d ft^oninhc jPomt of Of a^f^,-;whiGW ^^l hiiin 'S«bi«aj.of injrLettfcr J ^6tfil do liot^belittiig ^du wilV think ^hfs Di|;rafi0i¥^ftogethti» rtrfefe^P' Whe^A Mei a^e oftce^convirk^a^ that ii^ BfeWl*?iavf*d>«ari. tain Power over the Idolater, which is l>bj , ithey 'w^i»1^%ht- bcttei^^ii fed tc^lD^lil^t^-^Hiitl hai4 Wf««dy.had the; njSur br tfelliA| j^piv M' r^fe^idft 'to the Onlcbs 'ifhe Devilis 'dWivfii' dniohgit*le •/»^//«»r j andi I :*tti fliiiy ije^iyid^d ,> tft3t D«-l^rtoi«ri4(BbA& Fatth is'aftta*^t«*j as-fo'Cl^^il^fftefice ^b^ J3f». tils^r re upom too true to them. As it is tr^Cr that thofe fwi^d Spirits deliver Oracles in India , fo jwould it be ridiculous to fupppfe.^ithat thoTe Cka(ies proceeded from the Mouths of ^tatue^ in tllis Coai><^ry> as has been inlinjuated '^ the 4Gh»file$ of paft Ages. You have 4j^monftrate(i ftow groundig^fs wt Con|e^w$i jf>; by Tcfli^. monies of Antiquity, and eveji^ by the Kidicuf }oarne{s that is >n%arable to it; bnt as for In^ iifiii there are 31s ii^anyWi^neifespf the contra?- ry, as th^re are Idolaters and even Chriftians ill. tha Country, j Iris mpft cer;tain, that in fo many Yea,Ti as,| fca^e |4v*d among f h?^? Ptt:cldigipasBu]fc^d Heigjiti and they are ajl mtues. Iiiflldteiwithinrjntfeey are thofe:,that.ftand at.th^ Entrance into the Pagan Tenples j they fecm fo hswft l^efen m^pn Puarppi^! $p favour the lim^ftiires o£.the^ Idol Pri^jfts, if there M?4 bccat'iJteCafiotv to h^ye Recourfe co them j but mKeality that would J)f too.vifible a Bai'tr an4 ^dinkittQ believe 4ny fndiajf^ would fufter hinj'- ieif iti9r!b€ talien with it. I wiljlreacpunt fome £]^iH&pIesv wttiQh will inform ypu, what the ^G&$ g£ t^pJndhm can dp' in; Ppint of Im^ ^poftoreij but whiclj, ^J th^ fame Time, will convincie yoti, that they have to dp wiiH Pto*" flc that are not eafily to be guU'd by 'their rauds. By it you will |udge^ tliat Cmccmis {6 receir*d, and fb univerfal an Opinion in /»^r 4ia, *-hat the Devils deliver Oracles there, itis^. not certainly g:rotmded on the Cheats of Ibti^ particular Perfons, nor oti the too great Cr^dtt**^ lity of the Common People. ^^M i5:n? It is fotoe Years fince, a King of ^«;«(fi(or, Fraud of who was much affefted to ithe Idols, felTiWsjJP^^n former Devotion to become colder and coldqrr''*'' by Degretes»' till then he had very regulidj^ vti*t feed a famous Temple, (salM Manan^Diii^tm^ TV Mdiith. He tk re nsld to give ^edtJQiil Alms to the Priefts of the Temple, and yoct may imagine, that fo generous a Devodon could not but be very acceptable to them, -Btrtt what an AfilidiOn was itj when they pei^ceivy that the-^ince abandoti'd thieir Templ^. rr I fancjr, they would have better born with^iiis keeping aw^y, if he had but continu\lt6 fend the Sums he uis'd to diHribute among dfetn.' The Mifchief was, that they Were at oncerder priv'd of the Honour oi feei*g*he Prince, «ift of the Profit that accru'd frOni his, Vite. Vp^ on this theBrachmans aifesibled, and that be* ing a Matter of the higheft Confequence for thtiU , '^t'bky lohg conmltied together , w-hat Courfc to take. The Buline&in Hand, wais to oblige the Prince to vife the Temple of 'jlafo-» it^ycovr'/, according to his former Cuftomi if they could be fo fortunate its to fucceedin that Particular, they queftion*d not but^that his Bounty wo^ild be the fittie k had " been be- fore. •■■* '-- ;■' • ■ , ■jiii.'i?' Thfe' w4? th^ Stratdt^m they agreed «*»♦ una r^Vv^vu Cu m4lc Uic ur. D4 s ucy abroad a or' abr< V iuii*eAiog:5jf ,5r>, jKrtiq,wis a,gfle(^f s^ «to«*«»sMe«rs .,,.,}fo, jgc^y ,ij|.pn ^iqjfglf,^ ,^- Reality of that Prodigy, and in his Opinm A -.* "Wft Statue, and that through it they fcnrigd Wate) If^tluH i5 werT hVfS?cifily'Pmertfc%}y^ n^^ Aft ^^a;^^«j,fo^ W,«^|p_^ Tii liQ n.nn/" •vrr:ir ■&rr.ii^*«^ I? 4^" J fiblc Jk)^ fond th-fc People arc of Moiiv, to 5^^^!t^ •'^^S««^' ?f aic Gncvottfticfs 'bf ~ that I^mi^^^^ Such a hwvf Fine was much more infMj)|)drtabie to Acm,, thai tl^HfeVml- con^c>raI Poniftimctit: .,/t^^*-^:^'^ *;:*■* ich^ti-dao :t Cin amr ohc imagine ' Aat Men, who could Contrive Tuch a yraud ai' thf$i-tould ndt hiv4. of dieir^s, the Thin/l^e&glb eafy ai I have' demonftrated to vou ; ff they ted thbu^I^it fikcly tOMtaketheGentils, Whoconiultthc^Ot^ y mutual ([^tofe^tbta-^^^^ ^»- |^ng«¥5i\«»^f *»» 1tt¥my private Place ; Weithclcft the Treafute. w^s taken a vay r he Wk) had done the Thing war the forwaf^li: at ^emng his Innocehce; and calling hisi Partner 5^at apd Th»w, and evc^ |*'*»e Wo^d clear hiniiclf By the Oracle of^ Jamo^j Vpd, the Indians worfhip under a cer- fain IWei f%n tu^ TV... *^ i-- ^j ^ *k^ Purpoft, fn Furpofe» the ufual Ceremonies were jpttform'i for caUing upon that pretended ficity ; and k was expeaed, that fome one of the Company would be polTefs'd by the God, orpevil, they were making their Addrefles to ; but th^ wcrp much furpriz'd, when they heard i Voice come &om, the Tree, which cleclar'd him that was gpilty of the Theft innocent 5 and laid it upoii m unfortunate Merchant, who had never enter- mnd fuch a Thought. But it being a Thing l^ever heard of in India, to have Oracle^ deli- vered after that Manner ; thofe who were ap- pointed by the Court to be prefent at that Cerc- mpnv, gave Order, that before the Party ac- .W 4 were proceeded againft, diligent Search WHjdpe made, to diTcover whether there was ivot Efficient Caufe to fufpea that Oracle. The Motla Tree was rotten wifhin, and therefore, withr-Cf'eat mt any further Examination, they thruil Straw '''^'"7 into a Hole of the Tree, and fet fire to it, tt^"'' ^* *L*^*^' or Smolce, might oblige the Oracle ^ tajH after, an^t^er Manner j fuppofing, as was Wpca^d, >hat fpin^e Jferfon lay hid in the Bodir # the IJrce^ The Expedient fucceedcd, tji Wretch, ,whp dldjot expcd fuph a Ttyal, 4i5 pot think fit tpifufierhimfelf to he. burnt,- bi^t ^Py4 ow aiinain, that he wpuid difcover tji .v^ol? Truth, h^ging they woulii^^emove ,the l^irp, which began to burn him. They tpplt iMj Pn hm» mid thus the Cheat was difcd- V Once mope, it is a Thing beyond all Cbi^- ^^Ifoverfy ampng thp /«iimct4 lach Maimer ttet rhch^ JPbfitijdfaWy arifx^t^^^ijd JMi -J -.-,— ^ ^ V,. *"• Iri the Pr^'ifc'e ^^aif th^:^H$|ft>; 'aM terft *;;:^\:; l^ithoirt ahy My cbiffitk^ %i^ ft: > m^oa 4h Vil- ;i /a •^f«i>>4a >iiU iU VfO t?A. rc^ifl f ■i/M^/.?|r^^»>i ft^ve attempted jjnj^ fud ■4«ijfe5^' Thfe^c: 1^ Wt the l^^ttmjtipn o^'^^ \:,) l,\^,illconc\upk thisXetter with jfftat Wmh *" yl/gj93,,mtbs Pa«^i%. ,.1 mean a5;.i?iiraci :^-l09S'3iJience ©F..tH-^^^clp \%mjfyM P^T es, as Jesus Ch kisT is1mowQa^*a.#P^t I I will fo^infe^^§^^6^1 fprcad \ . 1 4*3 fl^rcad it fclf abroad in the World ; that this miraculous Event, tho' it did not happen ail J at once, and in a Moment, is not therefore the lis to be afcrib'd to the Almighty Power of E s u s C H R I s T , and that the Silence of the Denis , as well as the Dcflruaion of their Tyranny, is iicvcrthelcfs an Effeft of the Au^ thority lie tew given Chriftians to drive them away m hi^ Name. I defign to give you a ftandiilg JPtoof of that Atfolutc Powir of J?sws Ch R^iST, and ihofc who profcft jOi^ Moriii]^ 6f him, by barely laying bcfoit vow the Wottdcrs to which we have been Eye .Witneflfibsl '; •' :■ f ^*^^^- -^^ • ■ , ,^:vi-%-. r>J^^^' ^^^nCocvct it happeas, thatfome Chriftians arc prefent at thofe tumultuous Af- *r.- WfflWies, ^hcre the Devil ^eaks by thcMoiith K/wMtfrtpf thofe he poiTeiTes, he then obfervcs a prq^ »«/««/. found Silence, which neither Prayers, nc^ Charms^ nor Sacrifices, can prevail with hfm to break. This is fo freque t in the Parts df the Miflion ot Madure; whtrc we have RtiJ- dences, diat the Idolaters take fpeciai Care to .enquire, whether any Chriftian i$ among thcni, before they begin their Ceremonies ; fo AiUy perfuaded they are, that one fingie Chriilian in the Croud would difable their Devil, and ftrikc him Dumb. Here follow feme Inftan- c«s. ■"■ ■ , " ' '"■' ' -^'^ ti^mt It is but a few Years firfce, at a folemn I»rd. VtSoZ'*' ccffion, in which they carry*d one of the Idols *^n. ^f Madme in Triumph, the Devil took Pof- -(cflion of one of the Speaators. As foon as ithey had obfervM in him the Signs, ^ich dc- .ooted the Prefence of the Devil, the PcOpJc .fhrong'd about him, to be within heai-%V n.i f47] JiaiMicdacci4ciif[aJly tp pa^ by. thf^ Mace j lihac ^as fufficicnt t!9 f^cijic^ ?hc feyilj lie i^inic. duttJy ccasd «ix.giy^ Aitfwers, to ;bpfc w^ rare inqukin^. aboat future %€mV. When wy pcwciv 4 th^ Bevil wrnflSdi^^^^ o^ wprc^fome oi\e/o£ the Company faid, there m^c^^itdyt befbme Chfriitiatt £^CM^ theai'j ifnm^ifitie Search, w4i made for Eini ; but i^ fori^way, 4nd^jtir*4 with allSpe^d to oiir ^e oF our MfSoners g9mM{^fowk,j^a^ ftopp d at one pf thofc great Rooms: that a^ ^ built on the lligh:-ways« for the,.C6mniency of Travellers. The "ther was clofe up ii^a Corner of that Room; but one of the CiSf iUans, whobocc him Company, pbferv*d, fhit the Inhabitants i^ the next Sttpct jurere 0>t v^? ^^^^ about a Man itm wu pQ&&d}}yihsJ}^/-^'f and that eyery pnc cpnfulted theOrajcle* to^ . Hi^^^A^Y^^:^ .Things tjiat were fecrct. The Cbiftian tj«^ himrelf ii^po |he tttrong, *^*^ ^* A^/^ ^^?i^^^*#» thatthdewtoww ^carcft^ not, WNotieepf^^l^. It w^ a^apoffible thatjthe Pcrfon pofl*c6'd qmld (cc •him ', but the Devil was f<^ai:jCenfibIe of tfe ,Ppwer of tlut new Corner. T^c^easyifpealfw ing the very Moment ,- Care^ was twnto pro- mife Sacrifices, iwit not one, ^jp^d^ could be drawn from him, In the mean Tif^ie the Chri- ■?S. ^^^'^ ^^^y ^ dextrpu{i[/,"tas:-h€: caS. [.The D^vil then being deliverVfrom t^c Prefence of one more powerful than Jumfcfe began to talk again,as he haddonelictorSSSl the firft Thing lefeid, was to! Mm Com! .pai^y, that his Silence had teii. WaiionTC the Prefence of a Chriftwh; wfi^ t&y had not oblerv d, but wip h^d aevertbelejdr bm L^ongthem, { <\ t i ♦fi^. t . ^i^ifr ^5^5;^yine in thi$, Pyticular,'to^*h' I I iUle fdrc jwcans'-ro arive a^i^the % II3©(1 «iiilad"}13y3n LiJrf /iflrw •fffrl KN/n.^^^ *-^,. - - ■ -r—^'T- jrawss ^•s' T r-j-.ivji* -JV*** •fc ,-•■. ' C 49 3 You may ea% judge how well gromdci Certain. that Univerfal Opinion is, iince nothing but'? of th: an infaUibJe Certainty of their Cure, could™' prevail on thofe miferabk People to make Ufe of fuch a Remedy. Thefe are not Accidents to be interpreted according to Fancy, fuppo^ ling there is Fraud in thofe who hy they have been tormented, and are afterwards cur'd by Virtue of our Holy , Religion. M^n who mean honeftly themfelve$, and are acquainted with the Genius of the Indiant, never think of having Rccourfe to fuch Suppolitions. The Idolaters^ and efpecially thofe who are moft devoted to their Idols, and who confequently are moft fubjea to be jnfulted by the; Devils, have a wonderful Prejudice againft the Chri- Itian Keljgion. They can expeft no Advan- tage by a Forgery of that Nature ; tjiey can fcar nothing from the Chriftians , and have Caufe to apprehend every Thing from the In« hdels ,• they run the Hazard of lofing all they have, of being contemn'd by their Race, or Tribe; of being thrown into Goal, and -of being abus'd by their Countrymen. Thefe ' Obftacles are ftill much jnore dreadful for f 5?i? -A^^® are of Races which have but few > Chriftians, and wherein of Confequence Iz would be very difficult , and almoft impof- fible, after fuch a Change, to find any that would be allv'd to them in Mairiage. This laft Refleaion feems to me the moft confiderable ; but only thofe who live among: ..^ ' - ' thefe People can be fenlible of the utmpft Ex- tent of it. In order to form fome Notion of Gr^rf/ ' It, you are to conceive, and it is moft certain, ^"^^ °f that there is no Nation in the World where ^''^'''^'^^' Primes are more fond qfitheir Children ^ the E Tender- i / m t5o] ^tnitmeCs of the Fathers and Mothers in this Refptft i$ beyond Imagination. It chiefly '•onfifts in fettling and marrying themadvan- tageoufly ; but it is not allow d to contiad any Allfance out of their peculiar Races. Thus the imbriicing of Chriftianity, when a Man is of a Ract that has few ChnAians, is in fome Meafure renouncing the Advancement of his Family, and confequen^ly thwarting of the na-» HilrHl ind prevailing Aflfedions. However, the "tofments the Devil puts thofc Wretches to Ait'h violent, that they are obliged to over- come th6fc Confidertticns ; they repair to our Churches as I have toJd you, and there find Eafci'lind a cdrtalih Cure. This Motive of Credibility , together with other* which are careful/y laid before them, and more efpecially the viftorious Grace of Jjasvfi^ CnRist, by Degrees draws them from their former Su- perilicions, and prev^ls with them to imbrace that Holy Law^ which procures them fuch mighty 'Advantages in this Liife , and pro- mifes otkfers infinitely greater for all Etcr^ hitv. . ■ '- ■'^■ 1 muft tell you once more, thefc are not Aceidettts that happen rarely, and whereof there he I)o<^rine of Chriftianity. It would be amawng to us if fome of thofe Wretches did not conftantiv come for Relief to our Churches, 4nH i' W§n ^iiiiin IQk Ely F^ttj with iiil SinCc- itlty, that th6ifcisaInibflcdrftJnaiitlyfaifet^'bi> ^t Aoui^y one ^ our Pi^irfd^a Ohurcht^i ittA that th^ th^iAMns'bf ^rAgqVor botft S and of evcty Conditiofc'^6kpe[t>evilV^d^d^ J^radiceJ atithom'd by (ihrfftian Religion, a4 W which onr good -M^ if you defire iu when I fliall return to India. ' I am with much Re/ped - ^, ^ ^ RevehendFatheji, "^ " ' . lour moft Hiimblc ia l^aoiiiiM ajtid moft Obedieni: Sen^aiit in our Lord, . y.y. BOUCHET'rMieRonex ' ; of the Society 6( JESU S. t :i 1 ^j H 'I ■ >i E 3 THE • £S4 3 ^ iWi-X... THE FIRST «jTsvi-ivi /R; ■^jfj- t^. ...... .;..; Prom i. Father MARTIN' Miffioner of the SOCIETY of TO ilj'W l^eVIl Pf t?ie fame SOCIETY, Reverend Father; Weffings God beftows on our lT Joimiev I tont r«fi,- /- V 1- ^^'ter, of the LT ff 1 3t^t** ^^^"'^ Coromandel, and liiere, jf l piftak not, my Letter conckded ry of ■^1 ry. I in the iir La- ' fliould , audi toion. of the ?/, and C$5 3 It remains to acquaint ypu now with \vhat has hapned remarkable fince then. ^ I fet out from Corontandel on Shrove-Tuefday^ to return to the Mi/Hon appqinted for mc. About Midnight I came to the Bank c^ a Ri-» ver, which we were to crofs. The Darknefs was the Occafion of our getting into fuch 4> deep Place, that the Water was up to our Necks, and we fhould never have gpt out, had not God peculiarly proteded us. It is abfokitely neceflary CQ take tlje Advan^ Europe tage of the Night to get far from the Coafts, ans ««« . l*«BJB*i ^^m^^m r?fj E 4 Fear I ^■J^v^ r^ftLT '°°" *•"*' ^<"^ *ey "'e'* Chriftians haftmg for m to go to affift a Chriftian Woman »hl / IT U"? ** °« "'^ *y Way with them, and about Night came to the Bank of a ~^'h'!k *r T «?'' ^°'"^- '^''-'her they had remov d the/ick Woman, becaufe it woul/have been dangerous to go into the Village, the In- habitants whereof are almoft all of them Ido- inff^M , "t.'""" to Chriftianity. I was much niSl^M^u ""r S??'' Difpofition, and having .Ja^^^^^?^^ ^^^" when Ireach'd thut Place, andfound there a /^(^./«^«./. Jefuir, call'd F. Bar^ tholdm, who labours in thatMiffion with extra- ore inary Zeal He told, from what Danger Providence had delivered him. He went v?ry wr y m the Morning to his Confeffion Seat , ^.^^i'' ^ ^^^'"^L^ ^^^'^^^^ w«h a fmail .K A ^l^^^Jy that \oqU into the Court of the Church, and whither the Chriftians refort on^ by one to make their Confeffi6n. Shaking ^Pim. 2f ^^^^' Skin, on which we ufually fif, ^'f' -^here came out a great Snake or Serpent, of that Sort which the Portuguefes call Co^r^ Capelo. They are venomous in the higheft Degree, and the Father would certainly have been bit, had S.\ T.^""?".,?" ^^^ ^^''" ^^'^hout taking it up. The Mud Walls of our poor Houfes! often draw fuch Guefts, and expofe us to be-bitby them. In- my laft Letters I meiition'd feveral very remarkable Inftances of this Nature, which may luffice to convince you, that it h a Danger ^^;^»:^. frequently fub/eatp in the Miffion of That &)rt of Serpent I fpeak of is morecomi mon in circle Pamtha^ -in any oth^r of.lndta. Cobra Capelo Jecount bccaufe the Indians fancy that they are confe- crated to one of their Gods, and therefore pay them a Sort of Woirfhip, being fo careful in pre- fcrvingthem, that they are hd at the Gates of their Temples, and even in their Houfes. They call that fort of Serpent NaUa Pambou, which fignifies, good Snake, or Serpent ,• becaufe, fay they, the good Fortune of the Place where they live depends on them. Yet, as good as they are, they do not fpare to be the Death even of their Worfhippers. The fpecifick Remedy againft the Bite of thofe AntUof 5nakes, and many other venomous Creatures '??^'"^ there are in /W/V/, is call'd Veia-Marondouy that^'^'"* IS, the Remedy againft Poifon. It is more in Ufe among the Ghriftians than among the Gen- tils, becaufe the latter immediately have Re- courfe to invoking of the Devils, and an infinite Number of other Supcrftitions, which they are much devoted to,- whereas Ghriftians only make Vk of natural Remedies, among which, this I have mention d has the firft Place. It is report- ed, that It was a ^yoghi, or Heathen Penitent, "^^^ ^^^^^^<^^'^^'d that Secret to one of our Jrlt Miffioners,; in Return for a confiderable Service he had done him. ^ The Idolaters do not make ufe of fupcrftitious aarm^ Charms only againft the Bite of Serpents, but fo, Cure. in- aimoft all their I>ikzks. One of the great- elt Troubles the new Ghriftians, who Hvq among the Gentils have, is to hinder their Pagan Kin- dred, when they are fick, from making V(e of luch Means. Sometimes when ihey are afleep, or famt away, they tye about their Arms, Necks, ^^. f f t, fome Figures and Pieces of Writing, S!!:-. ^^f 'Tokens of fome Corapaft with the ■^v V ii. /iS ioon as t hofc Pnticnts come to the.m-^ felvcs. i C$8 J felvcs, or awake, they arc fure to tear off thofe fcandalous Charaders, and will rather chufe to 4yc than to recover by fuch vile Means. There are even fome of them who will not receive na-», tural Remedies from the Hands of the Gentils, becauff they often make them with fuperftitious Ceremonies. I ftaid but half a Day at Coumur, and fet; out the next Morning, pafling by the Town> where two Months before , in my Way to Pondkheryy I had baptiz'd two Infants, and a Youth who was juft expiring. Being Sn hafte to reach Comampaty, the Place of my new MiiTion, I travell'd fo faft, that the next Morning I was on the Bank of the Celorau. This, at fome Times of the Year, is one of the greateft Rivera and the moft Rapid ; but at others, it fcarce deferves tKe Name of a Brook, When I pafs'd it, nothing was talk'd of but the famous Vi(tory lately gained by the talavai, who is Princ^, or Governor-General of 'Tiche.-* ra^ly, over the Forces of the King of Tanja" mnry which had like to have occafion'd the Dif- grace of that Prince's prime Minifter, who is one of the moft cruel Perfecutors of Our Holy Religion. The Thing was told mc after this Manner, and the Method us*d by that Mi- fiifter to deliver himfelf from the Danger he was in, will make his Chacader known to you, and give a Notion of what we may apprehend from to fubtle an Enemy. Jkeomt The lalavai had incamp'd on the North Side l^i/^^'^f the River, to cover his Kingdom agairift the Army of T'anjaour, which ravag'd all the Coun- try about ; but whatfoever he did, he could not hinder the Incuriions of an Enemy, who ->' '• • • • • /-s /__ Tj ^^iviiiry- ine therefore tie. VJ u: una hi i I 59 3 therefore concluded, that the beft Way w.is t6 give a Diverfion , and accordingly he imme- ^^atdy refolv d to repafs the River; which wis then very Jow,inx>rde. to fpread a Terror in wfth f 'K T ""^ ^n"'«\ This he perform'4 With fuch Secrecy, that the Enemy knew no- thing of his paffing, till they faw hk Troops drawn up on tlie other Side of the River, and & ^"u P^^^'^^^ ^yo the Heart of the King^ dom, which ws left dcfencelefs. Thtt unexl pe ' ?'^^""g ^^^^ "^ ^hem to lend * 5,*™^.confiderable Sum of Money, on Pain of Confifcation of their Eftates. He rais'd all the Money he was able among his Kindred and Friends 5 he alfo drew a confiderable Sum from the Kmg s Treafury. In fliort, in lefs A^ J^"^ P^y«> he gathered near five hun- dred •Thoufand Crowns, which he immediately made ufe of to gain the Favour of the Queen of Ttcherapaly, and corrupt moil of her Council, but chiefly to gain the Father of the talavai, a Man more covetous than can be imagin'd. He managed the Affair fo well, that before the eight D^s were expir'd, the Peace was conclu^ dad at Ttcherapaly, with the King of Tanjaour, before the TalavM knew any thing of it. Thus the conquer'd gave Laws to the Conqueror, and the Mini^.r was reftor'd to the greateft Fa- vour with his Prince. His Power became more abfolute than ever, which for the future he made nlc of to ruin almoft all the Great Men in the ? n "V ^"^ ^° P"*^ ^^^ Chriftians under a cruel Perfecution, whereof I will givt you an Account at another Time. Cou- After many Fatigues, I at laft arrived at Co«- ?v T; ^^^'/'^f^' formerly one of the flourifhing Church- L. «of theMiffiooj butnowalmoftruin^bythe continual Wars, and many Difturbances amonc the fevcral Lords living in the Woods. F. st tft^ CarvaUoh^s. -haH tUp rhorn-*. «f *u.,* /^i ^u "'"*' for '1. I6i ] for three Years paft. The firft Year he baptii'd above feven Hundred and Sixty Perfons, the fe- cond a Thoufand, and the third a Thoufand two Hundred and Forty. The continual Toils of that Miffioner pre- j vailed with his Superiors.to fend him for fome Mm Eafe to Aour, to affift F. Bouchet, who was al- moft fpent with continual Labour ; but F. Car^^ vallo not fo fatisfy'd, obtained Leave to go found new Churches in the Weftern Parts of the King- dom of Madurey along the Mountains which part the faid Kingdom from that of Maiffour, The Air there is peftilential, and there is a Want of almoft all Neceflaries for Life. Neverthelefs, that Father has already founded two Churche;^ there ; the one in a great Town, called Totiam; the other in the City of Tourcouvy Capital of the Dominions of a Prince caird Leretti. It was about Mid-lent, when I took Pofleffioi^ of the Church of Comampatu Tho *the Town is \ very little, yet the Lords of it are powerful, and have always been redoubted by the Princes round about them. Being Robbers by Vro-Rohhrt feffion, they make Excurfions in the Night, and h Pro* plunder all the circumjacent Country. How-^^*"'i ever, tho* fo remote from the Kingdom of God, as ingagdin fuch wicked Pradices, they have a Kmdnefs for the Miffioners. Of them we hold the Spot of Land our Church ftands on. The Town cannot be well infulted, becaufc furrounded by a very thick Wood. There is but one Avenue to it, very narrow, andfhutup with four or five Gates, like Watlings, which 5 would be hard to force, were they defended by Spldiers. He who is now Lord of the Place, has loft moft of what was left him by his An- cewors, through hh want of Conduit and De- bauchery ; bai-chery ; but he has ftriaiy preferv'J the Rc- fpeft and Affeftion they infpir'd in him towards the Mi/fioners. It being requifite to crofs four or five Leagued through the Woods to come to Connampaty, that dangerous Way is fometimcs a Pretence the more lukewarm Converts make ufe of toexcufc themfelvcs from coming to Church on the ap^ pointed Days ,• and tho'' they are fecur'd from anylnfult, by only declaring, that they are go- ing to offer up their Prayers in the Church of the True God, and to viCit the Souamis, (o they caH the Miffion^rs ; yet the leaft Accident that befals any one of them is fufficient to tcrrif^^ all the reft. ..-.:. It is this that prevail'd with R Simon Cari}dl^ « to refolve to build a Church in a Place nearti* to Tanjaour, or at leaft in fome Place that may be come at through the open Country, not fub- jed to that Prince, or expos'd to' the Excur- fions of the Robbers. The Place he has pitch'd upon to build that Church, is beyond the Ri- .^,,ver, not far from a Town c^U Elacourvkhi^ --and at the Entrance into a Wood, belonging to the Prince oi Arielour, othetmfe call'd m^^ _ T^jie Father had already obtain*d- Leave of the Prince to grub up a certain Spot of Lan4 rhere. I caus'd the Work to hf carry'd on M very next Day after my Arrival there, defi^ii- mg to return to it after the Eafier Holyday^. and to ftay there till the Uiddlt of June, which IS the Time when the River begins td fwell with the Rains, which then fall on tl e Mouu't tains of Malabar. Thus my Diftrift is coni^ ^^^ ?%ii^^^^"i^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ Princesi fix>. Oi. Priadurei wf TanjaQur, and of Naynof. Thefef '/'' C f>i ] There are reckned to be in that Part no Irfe than thirty Thoufand Chriftians. The extenf t, r of Ground being very large, there a« fteqTn ,t^r Perfecutions, and when I took Poffeffion of the Church, there were two aftually a Foot, and ». third was threatned. * J^J^^^^^T^ intheProvince <^Chondanar». ^tvJtf F-""" ?*"• '^""S the Number of the Faithful mcreafe, confpir'd todeftrov them and accordingly feiz'd feme, baftinadoTotfe and ingag'd under^their Hands, not to fufiS ^Iv °A''^ the Country to imbrace Chri^ S' ^'''J:'^«''erorder'd, that. thofe who had aone ,t already flwuld either renounce it. or be expell d the Towns. They ^ had alfo tTerht^'^'^Pf '"J^"^" *« Church, but the Chief Man of the Town, who was a Chri- flian , vigorouflvr oppos'd that which tended to the uter DeAruftion of Chriftianity there " and at length by his IntereftprevailU^'** .. »?c r f ■''' *^^^'^^";?' ""'' <"> that .Account was ufeful to all the Country, had the Courage them, That it was the higheft Injuftice to oer- - fccuteaLaw, whofe Maxtas were fo holy and foconibrmablet.Reafon, as teaching esl^oSg no Man, to do good to all, even .o thofe who ..'jure us, to own and ferve the trae God, td 4.U r w° ^"^ '" Authority. . r ■. , ;.' . , 3 Holv Fait^'"J"T''* ^y.'^'" "«*^ ^-^^riarU-f W net \?''^ '"'" C"'='' ^n Anfwerasper-««A. haps never before came from the Motfth of the/"", moft barbarous and brutal Gentils. tie Rtm v>hy ^e hate that Lav.,-^ they, is teL^tt ««/. «-«-rf thereine tt ij ws mulideft^ij H, If it IXQIlld \ C ^4 ] Vfouid alhvi m to rob freely ; if it did difpenfe with .,.- cur paying the Tribute -which the King exaBs ; // it taught m to be revengd on our Enemies, and to give way to our PaJJions, without being exposed to thtt Confequences of Debauchery, we would heartily im-* brace it ; but becaufe it fo feverely curbs our Incli- ^ nations, therefore we rejeB it, and do command you the Catechiji to depart the Province immediaetly. I win be gone, faid the Catechill, fince you oblige me; and do you look for another Phyficia- to take Care of you, and to cure your Difeafes cu I have done. . The Governor of the Province, by Means of iome Prefents, order'd, that all People ihould be left at Liberty to imbrace a Law which com- manded nothing but what was juft ; yet our Enemies would not repeal their Decree, and we were fatisfy'd, for fear of worfe Confe- anfianey quences, to let Things reft as they were. The jf Cbn- Conftancy of our Converts has been wonder- ful ; one of them was ftveral Times cruelly fcourg'd', his Fingers cramp'd with Cord$> ^nd his Arms burnt with lighted Torches, but Jie never was fhaken in his Faith. Another, who ' was a Carver, could never be prevail'd on to work at the Triumphal Chariots of their Idols; for which Reafon they k\zd and abus'd him, pillag'd his Houfe, ravag'd his Land, and ex- pell'd him the Town. He went away joyful, Jiecaufe he had loft all for the Sake of J e s u s Christ; retir'd into a neighbouring Pror. vince, where a rich Man, who was acquainted with his Skill, took him into his Houfe, and ' found him in Work. Some Time after, thofe who had treated him fo cruelly, intreated him to return and he Ihould be receiv'd with Ho- . mi ght might perhaps oblige Kim-to work at their Ido-^ Imous Contrivances, and he lad rather remain iTT ^^ '^^^' ^^^" ^^ be expos'd tp that, This gcnerpus Jiifoiution preraird up^^^^^ lukewarm Chriitian to make a more op'-n Con- ;^ifion of Chriftianity than he had done before. He was the Chief of a V^Uag^, and all thofe «^ho have any Land about pay him a yearly' Acknowledgment, which obliges him on his Jart once a Year to treat all his Tenants. That Entertainment is attended by fome Ceremo- nies, which favour much of Heathen Superfti- tion. Among the reil was one no lefs infa- F.?A .'^^/?,.^^^^pomt^d another in his Place, who |5fcrform*d the mad Ceremonies I have mention d. Hereupon fome Enemies to Chri^' itianky refolv*d to complaiH-of fern, -alledcine j?^^^i^ ^^^^ '^ ^'^ '^'^^^ ^ receiving the afore- faia^Ac4inowIed§mentsfor the Villate if he dia nbt perform tht cGereAk)nies. Thi* ftartled him fti i^iidi, th-at he us'd ail his Endeavours to per-^ ffi^eme, there was no Harm in running abouf,- and malie Grimaces to fatisfy thofe People, Ifrice \i^, only did it for Paftime, without any^ Idolatrous Defign. All I could fay tothe con-' trary would have had no Fitea on hife-, butthc Example of the other Chriftian I gave an Ac- ^2^^t ^c ^^^^^^> wrought fo ftrongly upon him, that he fell ddwn at my Feet, protefting that th6?-* the J.dolaters would even difpenfe with him ai^ to thbfe vile Ceremonies, he would freely re-' fign alt h^s Right to.thofe Advantages' he had hl^^e^poilefs'd. A Man muft be fehfifele ^ S^lfo- con'*rerted lier Husbandi 1 hey encourag'€f eadh 'bother to InCreafe the^ Nu^mber of the taithfm ,- he among the Men, and file among the Women. ' Their Arguments^ and Example had gain'd above Forty over to^ thj Faith, in left than two Years. The Wo-" matt particularly appear'd as sicaloHS as our Ca-: techiils. tQchihs. Bht had Un in our Churches. That fmall ConareSn pel had been fitted up, and there thev Drav-y ^d Uftned to the I^rudions of S S^ t1,P^'!?' ^-^ f^'^y Admittance into moft of K there" *^^°^"' ''^ "^"^ °f ''o™^ k^ !'.aT "" *^ "^^^ extraordinary Succefs- to 'embrace Cffr^""'' T^ ftvera[ Families ChrS P?"""""^' .'^^ "»Sht them the W,J!l "'*'/''"'■?'''' thatisPfKr, to in- . tv with "^ "° 7 ^1"^.- «•= /"fo^^y that Du- ty with more Zeal than Difoetion. The Go- IferW V"?™'''>^.i*' '■^"' for him! mid at.er fome Words, order'd him to be fcoure'd t^enceT.'' ^T' ?'""'^' ^'* invinlkla- hkTc'ut ^'Jf." 'hey went about to take oiF his Toupet,, which IS a Piece ot Callico the /;:- ^/««y wrap about their Wafte, he gave the Per- hTthre'w Z' i'^"^ 'T " '^'' 'Thruft, th« er, frri ''n'^- . Immediately the Soldi- out of thfr' "TPl' beat and drag'd him out of the Town by the Hair, where they left Th^fJ. Vf"^"^^« t" return thither een^a P "? '° ''^^l ''^^" '^ Forerunner of a fheCrv! ''""°"' but a Calm cnfu'd, ai ,i the Governor went no farther. However, to prevent .11 Confequences, I made Clica ion to the Governor-General of the Province a Sa':" Tf"v-r""i"'-'' ^'^«^'' 'ow«d"chri! Ws i 1/ Y-'^' ^.''f ' *"'' 'he fmall Pre- vxpca j tor the Goremnr rsP i-l,o T' y^**«*«' aiMiB^B _ F 2 '--iv X v.vii was or— order'd hold Idols, OrderM no more to difturb either the Catechift" or the Converts* A:nong very many I bapti2*d was a Lady of the Court> call'd Minakehiamal, a great Confi- dent of tne Queen*s Mother, who had appoint-* ed her, as it were, Prieftefs of her Idols, for her Bufinefs was to wafh, perfume, and place them according to their Quality; when Sacri- fice was to be offer'd to them, (he was to pre- fcnt Flowcts, Fruit, Rice and Butter to them, and to take fbecial Care not to fc.^et any one, left the Idol fo forgotten fhould be of- fended, and bring a Curfe upon the Royal Fa- mily. She was marry 'd to one of the great Men of the Kingdom, but a Difgrace which hapned to her Husband, and his taking another \Ji(c, tho' at the fame Time he refpeded her as the firft, made her refolve to imbrace Chri- ftianitv ; but becaufe fhe could not after that at- tend the IdoISi /lie excus'd her felf to the Qupen, alledging her want of Health, and by that means was exempted from that Pagan Duty. Piety inducing her to make fomePrefent to the Church, file thought fit to adorn an Image of the Blef- fed Virgin Mary with a Padacam of Pearls and Rubies. The Padacam is a Sort of Ornament the htdian Ladies wear about their Necks, hang- ing down on their Breafls. It is our Cuftom, not to admit of any Pr^fents the new Converts offer, even to the Church, to convince them that we feek no Intereft, and accordim^Iy I re- fused it, ufing as an Argument, that an Orna- ment of that Value would move the Genti'^: t<> raifc a Ptrfecution, that they might rifle our Church. All I coiild urge did not prevail with her, fo that the Jewels were delivcr'd to a Goldiinith to mab that Or iiamcnt j but it hap- ^: % iiwd '4 ned as I had fai-1; for a Perfecution foon frf. lowd J the Goldfmith's Houfe was plusde?.. and MnakchiamaFs Generoflty became a Prev to a Pagan Soldier. ^ in I'l'i^*4yj'?W we, that feveral Poets being haH i!,5"^' ^^'^"^ ' '•^^'■"'"g the Verfes they had made m Honour of their falfe Gods, the n pi:J^ "*'"'"? ''""'^'f «P°" his Judgment midfty;K'V"\"°^^" Poe? ftood up in the Ofirmgs and your Praifes on maginary Deks,Goi' ' vjhuh deferve none of them. The %nly Soverekn "' ''«- fe,ns ,s to k vzon'd «, the true God, he alone L'fi'^ !* ferva yourHo,nage and your Adoration. " "Jfr"' aZ ! y?'^? provok'd the other Poets, who ■ demanded Juftice of the King, for the Affi-ont wKhV'^: ''^''- Theld^g-^nrwlvS wnen the Solemnity was over he would ex- th^rt w' ^T^'^- ^' ^^"^ »»^h lar-d by Ta ^^k'*" d*" ^"J'-" Accident would have turl ned to their Rum, becaufe the Heathens would fhIir,°"Afi. " " u*,'* '"'" =* Contrivance of J^L. u ■n"'^'? J"q"'fy> who that Stran- ger was. he appear'd to be a 2r'^chm-„, of a* Number of thofe they call Nmniguelr, tha t f anH ^„ fr'vT"^""^-^ °"^ Sovereign Being, ^ n'f K^'^''^"'" *^™^''l ^'■Gods that IS wor^ ■hip 5I by the Gentils. K Crrr *.^ L,. ~ Prauguifj [q jhey F4 the m Europeans, and reckon aJ! fuch a vile and infamous People ; adding, rhat being then ih want of Mony, he might enrich himfelf with the Plunder of their Church, where the StraneerS had certainly hid all their Wealth ; becaufe it had never beep molefted fmce the firft Founda- tion. The King pl^ as'd with the Notion of%o great a Treafure,- gkve his Minifter full Power. Ihc Fradam fent Orders immediately to the Mantagcinny or Governor of the Town, to ime the Mifljoner, and fearch all the Houfe, till he found the Treafures hidden there. Ne^ ver Order ^ was better executed. The Mania- garen pitch d upon Simdsxy when all the Chri- ftians were at Church, when he came upon them with his Soldiers. Some feii'd on the um}?"^^ f^^agging him away to the Houfe, whilft others fecur^d all the Avenues^ beat and Itripp d the Chriftians, taking from them the Ornaments of Gold they wore about their Necks, and m their Ears, and plundering their Houfes in the Town. The Father's Houfe was overturn d, the Walls wipre thrown down, and they dug all about it ; yet all the Treafure they g)und was not above fixty Crowns, being the Fund for maintaining of the Miilloner and the Catechifts. The Maniagaren f^cur'd that Sum', and all the Moveables of the Church ,- which he immediately fent to Court. The Kine, jvho expeaed a confiderable Treafure, was highly mcens d againft the Praianiy for ha- ving put hi^i upx)n an A(^ion fo unbecoming his Dignity. . ' . ^ The News of this violent Proceediiig at Co«^- ;wir Toon reach'd Cora/j, where F. Jojeph Car^ yaBQ^ cxpc<^in§ the Ume Ufage, fent what -he ^-' ^ \ ■- . ' ' .- ■ . jiad L73 3^ fiad in his Houfe away beyond to (^olaran, and out of the Reach of the Pandaratar. But thre^ Days palling without any Difturbance', he corf^- diided the Court was not fo highly inc^ns'd as had been reprefented, and therefore refolv'd to appear before the King, and beg of him, that he would releafe ^: Bertholtiptiy who was clofely tonfin'd. But firft he thought it convenient to ^ive Notice to the Kings younger Brother, who was privately an Enemy to the Fradani, land the Protedor of the Miffioners. That Prince, in Concert with his Sifter, whofe Au- thority is very great at Court, perfuaded the King to give the foreign Dodor a good Recep^- tion, and by fome Marks of Honour to make Amends for the Fault hfe had committed by the Advice of his Minifter, which had fully'd the Hotiour his Anceftors anid himfelf had gain d by proteding of Strangers. ' - The King, at theit Requeft, promised to do Juftice to thofe innocent Strangers, and fending for the Pradani, either, faid he to him, you mufl he very indifcreet in giving Credit fo eafily to the 'Reports hought you of the Wealth of the Sanias, or elfe you mufl be very maliciom to raife fo cruel a Perfecution againfi them, and which is fo difad- vantageom to try Reputation. The Pradani had recourfe to the ufiial Calumnies y alledging that under Pretence of Religion, they came to raifc Difturbances among his Subjedis, in order tq deliver up the Country to the Europeans dwellr ing along the Coaft. • Thefe Slanders had no Effed upon the King, as well knowing, that the Miffioners, who have fefided there fucceffively for above a hundred Years, have always perfuaded the People t<* pay Che utjnoft Submiffion and Loyalty ta their So- i-i " / vercigns. ( 4t€ttce. you not onlv f^^i^ » ^^wnted.to Au- *«& to his Prefe^^"'''i""S/'''">"^d P- Car. a Seat Mdtuh'J^t """''" '"" ^'' 'l"^" °" he allows to noTe of I^Tk^ 1" Honour which ?« «?/- ner fpoke to hZ 1^1' ^^^^"*'- The Miffio- tour. / iKfZf:"'*'; **' ^"^"^ o/Cout- M-d his Church, aTZuA r^nrT^'- f"' 'ot complain thm hTis awlH' tf^ ' '^ ^ if he were a k"het\fIVT/'' "^ l" M^n, flain thai the ra,u7u '" ," ^M''' i hu I com- / teach, JtJbZ f T *f "°' i"" ''""^ '" '«^- '« A S E C O N I> PROM *■• *•* ''. Father MARTINA • ■> Miffioner of the S OCt E T Y o£ jESVSinlndia, i ■Ti ,"•'' T O r^ iJnsi' ■r.;o:> ..lot F. de VILLEITEi Of the fame SO C IE X IJ"- R E V £ R E N D F A T H E R j " ^f ? <*^^ ^' '^ ''^'''' TH E Perfecution rais*d^ againfi iha Chriftians of Couttpur \!ic^t.m^^,i Counampatj, as I acquainted yoii m my former Letter, whithc;r fuch z multitude of People reforted tp the Celebxa- tion of Eafler , that there would have bceii t.mployment enough for, feveral Miflionersi m I had all the Aifift.ance I ^guld from the .■M(Mn IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-S) 1.0 I.I |jo iMBi ^ U& mil 2.0 1.8 L25 14 1 1.6 „ 6" .. Photographic Sdences Corporation # \ ^. \\ ^ ^9> V i'^J^ o^ %^ '- ner. Thofe Meditations are calculated to the Capacity of the Indinwy who Hften to them with the greateft Attention^ arid all Tokens of fm- cer^ "f €»de«iiefs. - , r. - f^'^^h^A 5|pyr? we /ang the Sufferitigs of our Lord, and then pray*d for the Neceffities of ttie Miffioiiy paftkularly recQijimending to God t!k Churches dfeor^^' ^nJcot/tfowr, then under Perfecution^5;^^I qu^i&Vpo^, but the fer- vent Prayers of the Converts obtaiilM the cea- fafthtg^ fing of it fo foon. Some of them us'd all Sorts «pc. of Aufterities, and tho' they have been diipen- fed with a&tothe Rigoair.of J'afting, on Ac- count ^fie fcoKh%g*lkat^^f^ih^^^ Cl%iate, and dienLightnefi of their'Diet, yet are there fome wlp throughout, the^whole Lent eat no- thing hkt md anti Mei^s ill feafond, ^yiy once a Day. I have known them faft two whole Days in the Holy .Weeb without taking any §u{lenance> which L take Care to forbid, 6e<;aofe-'rt''pften weakens them fo much, that tiTey ftndiituch Difficulty to recover it, and yet Fcamiot ait^ays moderate their Zeal. ChAvity. Sucli a^'ai-e wd.i to prafs, ^ive Alms every Eray in Lent lb a: certain Number of Perfons ; 5)tfte toFiVe^iiiRemembratjte of the five Wbifnds df our Saviour; others jfo Thirty Threfe,- on |Lcjcounr. 6t Air living fo* many Years upion Earth; 't79l Earth ; and fome to Forty, for the forty Day* he fafted in the Defart. The Alms confifts in Rice and Herbs ready drch*d, which they pu^ into large Difhes, and difh^ibutc it themfeivc* with Angular Piety. . .. ThoTc People are extremely concerned whcri* we are oblig'd to defer^iving them Abfolution- they life all Arts for obtaining it, even to re- veal their Crimes to the Catechifts ; bur a Mif- lioner ought to be careful how he complies with' them. We will pafs by many Particiilars o£ what was done that Holy Week, and to men-: tion the Numbers that were baptized ; but f cannot forbear taking Notice, that among the 'I I • ^/!?^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ Vimge came' ' With his Wife to defire me to admit them inta the Number of the Faithful. They told m^ Aey had long been fenfibie of the Truth of ouf> Hply Religion , but that, worldly Cbnfiderai tions had kept them in their Idolatry, but they co^d no longer withftand their inward Call. The good old Man added one Particular, c^^iPu. which denoted his folid Judgment, ane nevef^ fittcetommitted any Sort •/ Robberyy either by mr M,or by my Slaves, ad is praBifed by the povaef^ fill Men of our Race. Neither have Ipartahniif the ^Robberies committed by my Children or Ki£^ ared, tho tt be a Cnfiom among us to divide amn^ ourjelves what every Man has flokn by hiittfem They have often made a yefl of my Simplicity; r imm •*•« O^ imm i: 1 1 4 '. k0 fhavtahays held m% Refolmmi and Ifaf^ tincemore I am of Qpiniotti that pty fefujing to of- ^nd thi true G^4» tho\l4id not yet worpip hinti has prevaird with him to open his Arms tq receive, mey as unworthy as I am. The Mk of Sin\|^Ii- city with >vhkh he irtter d thcfe Words, charm- ed mc, and having embraced, I admitted him into the Number of the Catechumens. . ; The News of the ccafing of the Perfecution! at CoutiouK iKiadc a new I^eftival for the Chri- V ftians, who return'd Thanks to God fgr the fame in folcmn Manner. The Pool o( Cou- nampaty being quite dry'd up, I refolv'd to rc;- pair to E(acot4richy, but iirft to 4ouy, to conf^^r, there wi|h the Miffioners. about fome Difficul-' tics I met with at firft. There I found the Fa-^ thers, £owvet^nd Carvafio, quite fpent with thcj ^ntinuai Toil of a Month. Never any i:«/*^r. ^ad been kept ^hcre in fuch; folemn M^niiC^ ^nd with To great a Concourfe of People. ' JJxCj Indians beiii^ great Admirers of PoQtiy, F. 'Both-, 'vetjizd causa the Vidpry of, IJlavid over §^- iiah to bc^reprefentcd in Verfe,^ and it was*aU ft'aMpng an .Allegory of the , tfiaory j e s w s Christ ^ii}*d in his %fiirrea:ion over the Fpwers of Hejl. It was aU inftrudive ^nd Among the many People that reforted to it npm all Parts, there were fcveral of a n^igh^ bouring Prpvincc, profefs'dvEnemics ^o $hc. Prince, to whom the Town of Aour is fubjc(^ They came arm'd, and with a great Rciinue, That unludcy Accident, and the unfuccefsfiii Attempts ih^dc by that Lord, to extort Mony ftom the Miffioners, incens'd him, befbre iUai- Ic^ed towatife the Chrift^^,^ . .. , .. ' .■v«* v„ Some '4i C8i J I t?^l"1 9^?^ ^^"' of the Couiitt^ round about*' laid hold of that Opportunity to ftir him ud ftill more agamft the Chriftians. They m tZ him m a thireatnirig Manner, omitting nothing rtat might the more provoke him. // it not a ^^^fftey faid they, that you Jhould entertain in your iJommtom a Stranger, who makes it his only Bu»^ finefs to deflroy the mrjhip of our Gods ? He /pares f^tther Labour, nor Expence^ nor Feftivals, to raife ^ Religion on the Ruins of ours. He feems by the Multitude of his Difciples to give Laws to you, in your own Temtories j the very Gentils are devoted to him i more People reforted to his lafl Feflival than was remtifite to fubdue a whole Kingdom. Be^ fides, that foreign DoB.. has publickly affronted our Gods. What can be more infulting, than to reprefent to an innumerable Multitude of People, a^ y^ng Lad cutting off the Head of our God Pcrou-. rt»al ? Even thofe who pnfefs our Religion are fm tHjatuated by that Stranger, that they applaud him/ and clap their Hands when they fee 6ur Gods dijho^ mur d. If you are fo mean fpirited as to permit titm any longer on your Lands, we have refolvd t9 ^*M ^'W our felves by main Force. What they proposed was very agreable to that rrinces Inchnation, but there occurred fome i^ifficulty in the Execution of it y for he ha- wrded all he was worth, i{ he us'd Violence ; becaufe on the one Hand, he had Caufe to ap- prehend the Refcntment of th^ talavai, who protected the Miffioners j and on the other, his own Intereft check'd hinri. If he e^cpell'd the Miffioner his Town, it would falUgain to rl^a- ^^^^^^> as it had been before : all the t-iinltians, who were come to inhabit that Dc- icrt Place, would be fure to follow their Shep- Wrd, and by that Meani he would deprive O himfelf SM» | iM! « »ifcpi | i^ IJ! m I \r himielf.pf' the. beft P^rt of his Revenue. Thefe ii^rfrpdwetf;4yAirgMnientS'Vir;th 4 fearful Man,? and who lov'd his owtt Intcreft* However, , In- tercftji^ once y§it4e4 to the; Hatred he^ pore Ghriftifliiity. ,,He jfmt; tjie JvliffipneiT Word>, that he could no" It^nger withftand ^he Inftai^ces. and Threats of the neighbouring great Meft> and therefore,, in compliancy with theni> he, cotnmanded hjpto.jbe gone out of his domi- nions within three Days. , .vC a^ «omV ". V -.This furpriimg Order put ii? fbmewnat ottf, of our Byafs ; fo that ^Jv^e were fome Time wa- ni/tring What to do» and began to think of with- drawing j but th^ thought it was a difmal Thing, that f<) incon^ideltaMe a Prince fhpuld in a Moment iuin thcfinc(l and moft flouriftihg Ghut^ iri the MiiTMyiii. The bare Name of the 'falav^ wasi fu^ciert t tcy n^ake an ImprefHon on o*lr Perfecutot. K Rmhet was then, making a Macliinei to mbunt a Water^Dial, v<^hich he wa^ to . pl^fent the,7^iavai. He therefore an- fwer'd^he Priftce, that it was needlefs to allow him) three Days t© d€i>art his PominiohS) fince a Quarter of an Houf would fuffice ; but that having promis*4 the? 7^/-a^w; fome Ma«chines he had Occafion fori .hie muft ftay till they wcr^' fiaifli'd ; whichi 45 feon as^ donf j , he would [g6^ p^efcnt themtoi, a^iditeUr him* That beit^g in Diferace with ^ Pjrince of .CataJoufti rwho.ba-: niflitt him altvhi^ Dominions ;_he 5egg;d c^j him fbme iittk Corner in. his Kingdom, whi- ther he might retiiBp, tp build a Ghufch and a TRown for hii Difeipies, whFpr!i?Il€nding,.at the fame T^^ th^ Lofs of his Revenue, and the Indignation ^ the T^^f^tim . Being tJujs,mpllify'di he-an('^er-' ed, He did not; deiire the Mi/Jioner ^ouji de- part j; (but thftt he, would nor for the tohtfie cclebxite my fwch fol^mn Feftival$, w^ich.cLrcw together fcr great Nunib^irs of People, aq4 jave . -I Jealoufy tp the neighbouring great M^n. 'if hiw EBouGbit continu*d tocxercifc his FufjSibiMp At that Time an Acmdetit befell one of (xmShdnge Cate^ifts, ,Whom the Father had fent t;o the^'ft^P^ Prince* which jnuch furpriz'd us. He fiad. tra-^ ^^^Cma vellid in all the Heat of the Day,JMid being very Thir%, waa Co jUdifcji-eet as to drink, without the\!^mi Fre^autipns. He immediately fbuhd hittifel£ jfei»*d .with that extraordinary Indi- geftimii «rhi^h they e^l inin4ia MorJechinym^ to which f0ftie of the. JW»c/» have given the Naitie .>0f il/^rj ^ c/f/V^ , that is, D.o£s J^eathit imagining if h^d been fpeafl'd, becaufe ifcaur* ^ les a vic^ejitand (:rueliDeath- In fhort, it puts t&e Patient t<> ^he ;npft racking Pains^ wbi<;(i docs. fuchi Violence t^ J^J^ture, that Very, ftW efcapei upleft thf y apply a Remedy > ^uch mi along the- QQpk, but little kno^yn up the In^- laaid. . . jT;hi$ Remedy is fo effeaual, that icarce Two iiija.Himdred iriifs being fnatch*d frpryi the Jawf 'of.Death by the AppIic^tio^V of i^. That Difteinper is miich more commPn,ii|i,if»r diAt\\2.i^,iXi Europe j the continual Di%aUQn of the .^irits, occafion d by the inte^ife .He^t of that /fore hing Climate, does fo we^keur, and fcnt to acquaint us with the mi-»- ftrablc Condition he was in- The News was not brought us till Kine at Night ; I hafted away immediately to the Af-^ iiftatice of the Patient, and found him fttetch'd out on the Ground almoft befide himftlf, and with violent Convulfions. All the Village was gatfcef^d about him,and every one was prcfling to gi^'t hint feveral Sorts of Medicines, which were properer to heighten than to alleviate his J)i' ft^mper. I caused a great Fire to be lighted, and wanted an Iron Rod for my Remedy, but there being none, took a Sickle, fuch as they ule to cut Rice and Herbs. I made it red Hot in thcF^e, and order'd the Back of it, red Hot as it was, to be apply'd to the Sole of his Foot, about three Fingers Breadth from the Back of his Heel ; and to the End they might commit no Miftakc in an Operation, which they had never feen perform'd, I fcor*d with a Coal the Place to which the hot Iron Was to be apply'd. They held it hard againft the Foot, till the Iron pe- netrating thofe corny Skins, which in the Blacks are extremely hard, caifte to the Quick, ar I wa^ felt by the Patient. The fame was done to the other Foot, with the like Precautions, and with the fame Succefs. If it happens that the Patient fuffers himfelf to be burnt, without gi- ving any Token that he kcls it, the Cafe is al- moft ddperate. The Operation being thus perform'd, I cau- fedthem to bring me a little Salt powdered, for want of which, hoi Afhes may be us'd, and ft re wing it on the two Dents made by the Iron, had thofe two Places beaten for fome Time with the Soles of his Shoes. Thofe who were C8J] were prefent could not conceive the Viituc of that Remedy; but they were much fiirpri^'d, when in kfs than h^lf ^ Quarter of an Hoar, they faw the Patient pejrfe(5tly come to himrey; without any of thofe Convulfions, or the other mortal Symptoms he had before; he felt no- thing but an extraordinary Weariness, and aji ardent Thirft. I caused forae Water to be boi- led, with a little Pepper aiid an Oiljoni and gave him to drink. Then having reconciftl him, for he had been lately at Gonteffion, Ileft ftim very cafy, and returned myfelf to Aour. The next Day he was in a Conditwp to come to nie» and to return Thanks to God for his Cure: . .Perhaps you mav be pleased to liear another ^^.^y Remedy, which I have riot tryM, but it ^is^ainjl taught mc by MonJteurManouchi,kti2bUl4^^*\^^ tian PhyiTcian, who has gairi'd much R^^«t^ti i^ofir " davampaty was the firft Towii t came tobri niy v ^ J A. ^^^^^ ^^ formerly a'very fineChurclL '^ '^ and Chriftianity flourifh'4 • bm: the Wars ha^ G txiw^-,*'! *nw SB I !i5 ■ rained the Church, however, the Chriftian Cop- gre§ation ftill fubfift5,.at Icaft in Pai^t.' 1 found t^cje a great Number of CouVem, who had buift a little Church, reforted to only byPtfrrVj, jgjich is the meanal Race a.'m6'tig the Indians. TJey would have had me rebirild' the former Cni:rch, biit my Stock' would notreach. Sev they are no lefs ^h^^iilf at'iihfj- m f r^ten^es io cosat: off from' their' Word, il 111 ^r ?^ A*^ l;Wn T;W,;ari^'d'pfiring hM to CEoIoran W^$. i f «'s K tji^p ^ih€ into Jrcof ar^ very C 87 3 vcrjr p^cafant to the E^. t?hty were ikl! OV^ /covef'd irith Flowtrs i)f a Sbrt of yc|kyWifls White, and about as big\4'At'Wi» the ufual Effsd of them upon all fuch zi arf n6t us'd to cat Hhefm. ' The FlOwfet* i$ all the Fruit that'Ti^gc beai^y and they 'e^trii^: sin ©ylfironl it, which is exttlknt ^rSwitiUf, ■ ' ; ^ 't;a 7:^1" ' ' I j>tocfeeded: 6n my JdUHWyfW! along the C(^ /()ri?« , aiid about Noonl ^Wd«hM £/«c««rWfW. Th^ Gate^hiflf \^a8 very bli^ ^here, finifhing ^heGhtirth^ iVhich, VAq ^tmk all the dtherl, i? ©hiy * gtiJt lofi^ td^ge, thatdi'd wiA ^Ruflie!y,^'^^the' End bff'^hil^fv there js'aFar-* rition; -fb^thcMifTiofte^^'^i^ididraw intfl». ^ ^ The "fitfte Night rani^tai^ EfncourYidhI, A«t- Vicp ^as'brought me bf' %L,^cfs from Gwl- ^n ill of ayio-» > and Earfty ' f tnd'' living only j^eisicf^ ^o«r, that K Benholdni lent £>efluaion fallen 4 . fct out iirimcdiately t6 . fhcfryjth tlie Pdifty of a Kn^if^,> ttoeh they ^a^ j>I v'to' it a Sort of QSb^r Cttpf;ifi§^rf* fel, witi/ which they f uitt^ the Ai^,>«itd:A) Uraw tf ii^^ B!5bd out of the fOre Jasf ^^^aitQ Gafhcs- made by fcarrifyilig. ' ^ ^ ^ " ^ ': n hzd ' 0\ix 'ihdmHsp:tt(o ignOiUnt, that thcfm^ jieir Ig* no B'iflferenee between a Venn and an At^ct^r. vor^n^a Moft of them do not Xoow ^'•"ctl^ef ir is'«»:A5^ « /^«< ' '1 1 -il V C 88 ,1 tery or a Nerve that beats, r,r what i« the Oc- cafion and Caufe of that Beating. However, ^h^TJ "''" f'^>'."'! """^ SkTllW than any mhcr Nation, they had already apply'd feveral ^IX**''. 1° '^1* Miffioner. whicV hadTnfy ««§ L"'''^ r L- ?"««■»?«• In three Days 1 «asd him of h« Pains, ,„d r«urn'd to ElJow- ^co^Z. '^t'^ "^^^ ''^^^^ ^ Chriftian i„ that or the They were all of the Race of the /^^.;«5, a Peo- ?^!.i!!^^ ^""^ contemptible in the Eyes of the Ido aters, and therefore the great Numher of Chriftians there ,s of that Sort is rather an Ob^ P I... . " a Motive for thofe of more noted Races to imbrace Dhc Faith. The mofl com- TLf:^^'''^''^^^''^ ^^^ "P^" '^^ -inverts is, to faytaey are become Parias, and confequently feHen^from the Dignity of their ow^^^ceJ. Nothing IS a greater Let to the Cohverfion of thofewhoare of noble Races, than that No- tion of Pariamfm, which they have fix'd upon our Holy Kehgion. However, many more Converts might be made , if the Number of Miffioners were greater, or thofe tbat are there enabled to maintainmore Catechifts* Yet are not thofe Parias lefs, honourable in ^e *ght of M)d, thar* the otbpr. more exalted Races. I W one of them, who before his Con vcrnon had been a LibertJ^ iti the higheft Degree, and 4P fec^,and haughty, that all the CpunW ftood . in Awe,of Jiim ; i>uc Cod fo changHhis Heart aftj. B^ptifm, tha^ diftribR^d. -hat he had 4mon|his Children, he whQlly g^ve him^ rn^p to Prayer and.Mprtification, living up,

-., :;.,m,t IfL^-- ^- Cwr«w went to Tifit thofe.-//^Mrf, and found them fodocible. that after 'omeS»??e, f*°"i? •'6' appointed them. Hehadalfothe ' Po f '«f°p "• ^'Pf^^^e ^"^ 'h" were "t ^ Amazons, had folAS'n""ff*i:'^'^' *'' '•""'' '^''"» "^ was a N^nin '"?'„','"'?• ^° *'•= Eaftward there Tdmitt^ ofVl ^"■'''"' u^°™''"i '"at they fon?of fh/v " ^1?''"S them at certain Sea- Chidren rh.?^""' *''2' "''>' """tderU the Male .m ,h? T^ '^ "^''^ ^"i"" •' that they brought up their Daughters with Angular Care and enur'd them betimes to the Toils If War. '""*^'*' l*«t the moll important Dilcovery and which gave tbe greateft Satisfaaion to f. cJL was IWM ^i **,^*"«'- That Nation is mortcTvi! hzd than the M.XOS; their Villages are very fnd PW'of '^r' "■* l"^™^' S"^ts in .them! cxerch'd "p^Atms where their Soldiers are ^ r'j W -i^'^ty Town or Village is encom- a-^-Sinft r^*[,?8 '"''*'■»''"' which^fecareT". .«( i)i/:/. SawW.luch Weapons as are us'd in that. Coun- try 5 they iet up a &n of Snares, or Toib on E^hf fh "'^^'u'*'"'-'' '^^P their Enemies. In mal of r^n?" • ."'" '^ " ^°tt of ^B«cklen^ made or Canes mterwoyen and cover'd with Co ton and Feathers of feveral Coto„„, "nd they are Proof againlt Arrows. The« make Choice of the Braveft and moft Experience a- Wong them for their Commanders, and punftu- aiiv Fa u res Indians. pline. ], biting hat their iesaftivc, :ackthcra they get Ms and ^ncrsi he ch Laiids I alib the re at the ^eans he rd there liat they ain Sea- theMalc brought d eiuir'd d which ian was >re civi- re very a thera, iers are encom* e it a- C-CDun- Pails on ies. In i(ctler% drwith r$j and I make ic'd a- punftu- aiijf' a! y obey them. All their Women arc decently Clad. They entertain their Gueft courteoufly Klnin^fs and one of their Ceremonies is to fpread on*''^'^'»'»- the Ground a large Piece of Cotton Cloth, where.^'''- on they caufe him to fit, whom they defien to Honour. Their Soil feems alfo to be better nf r^"ili ^^T ^J^'"' f ^ ^^^'^ ^'^ abundance oi fmall Hills, for which Reafon it is likely that Corn, Wine and Eurofe4n Trees would grow there, if the Land were never fo little cultivated. F. Cyjrian penetrated far into this Countrv, and vifited many of their Towns, where he ftill found People very docible in ail Appearance* and who feem'd to relilh the Law he preach'd :l w\ u.^ ^."^^^^' ^^5 a great Satisfadion to him, but his Joy was not lafting. Two of, « the Converts that were with him in the mzhu""^ heard :k great Noife of Drums, in a Town they had not yet been at. Being in a Fright at it they prefs'd the Miffioner to fly with all Speed! before^ it was too late, becaufe, according to the Knowledge they had of the Country, and the ' unlettled Genius of that Nation, that Moife of Drums and that Motion of the JndUm pre&R'd fome 111 towards them. . i.^,«*-5^ ,.^- S'^f'''" ^^e« perceiv'd, that he had put himfelf into the Hands of a Nation, who were Lnemies to the Holy Law he preach'd, and not quellioning but that they had a Defiea a- gamfb bis Life, he offer'd it up to God for the balvation of thofe Barbarians. He had not eone maay Steps, in Compliance with the Apprehcn- lions of the Converts^ before he met a Com- pany of thofe ^^//w, arm'd with Axs, Bows n^r-., h?m n^;Tl^ '^'^ ^IK '^''^^"^^ ^nd'revirdrK hira, at a DiHance, and then let fjy maay;Arrowsa./crr ^ at hira, which at firlt^divj no Hurt, by reafon of ( 2S4 ) of the great Diftance ; but they halted on and the Father was Wounded in the Arm and Thigh. The Converts, in a Fright fled out of the Reach of the Arrows and the Baures being come up with t(ie Miffioncr, fell upon him in a furious Manner, and gave him many Strokes, whilft he call'd upon God, Praying for the Converfion of thofe Barbarians. At laft one of them fnatching away the Croft he held m his Hand, gave him a Stroke on the Head with an Ax, which put an End to his Life. Thus dy'd F, CyprioH Barax^a on the i5th of September 1702. He had himfelf Baptiz'd above Forty Thoofancf Idolaters, and reduced a brutal People to Civi- lity and the greateftSenfeof Religion. The refl of M KeUtion coneermng only the , Chara^er of the Mijfioner is emitted. A Letter from Father Gabriel Mareft, Mffioner of tU Society " Jesus, to R de Lamberville^ of the j.jne Society, Pro^ curator of the MijJtOHs of Canada. Rev. Father, .nV ■J\. IT is fomcwhat of thfe lateft to enquire of me for News from Hudfcr^^ Bay. I could have given you a better Account, when I re- turn'd into FrAnce^ after being releas'd out of the PrifoB at Plymouth* All I can do at pfe- fcnt is to fend you a Ihoirt Journal, which I writ at I on and Lrm and d out of res being him in Strokes, for the it one of Id \n his with an 'hus dy'd hr 1702. rhouland to Civi- only the titted. Mareft, , to R i»l< ^uire of I could ;n I re- out of at pre- :h I writ at ( «^5 ) at that Time, whereof 1 have kept i Copy. R bcgms with our Departure from Pwrfer and concludes with the Return of the Two Veflels which carry'd us to that Bay. Give me leave firft to give you an Account of what I had learnt at Qutbec^ either relating to the Jefuits^ who had been there before me, or to the firft Difcoyery of Htidfin's Bay. It is not above Two Centuries fincethe Na- vigators of feveral Nations have attempted to find out a new Way by the North to ChiM and Japarj^ without any Succefs, God having laid there an invincible Obftacle, in the Moun- tains of Ice that are found in thofe Seas. Upoa this ^me Defign, in the Year i5ii, the famous Effgiijhman Hndjon^ penetrated above 500 Leagues Hudfon Jurther than any other had done, by Means ''(T'^ver* of the great Bay, which ilill bears his Name 1*' ^-^^ *, '%. 1^ ^ M ■"#■ Phote)graphic Sciences Corporation 23 WES1 MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. 14580 (716) 872-4503 ..V *•<* K. %^ ^ O^ 1 Nil ,1' '3 ( *58 ) Mind, grtw into a meJancho!y HumODr^fij.ljd: fancy 'd that the Father deceiv'd hitrt^ sms^^t be was gone to meet the others* ojidy t^.m^i cenfe thena againfthim. Upoi* iihis-Go^c^iti^chc took his Ax and his Fire Lock to run? after the Father, and as foon, as ht had ovcrtiikeia^ «pr- braided him with Treachery and a Dcfign^ to deceive him, and at the lame Time «;«w-hint*' a Blow wiPh his Fire Lock. The Mifliofier. tOf eTcape the Fury of that bafe Man, l^p'd'nipon a^reat Piece of Ice, which was floating oa the Water. The Smith leap'd on after him and cut his Hcdd in Pieces with his Axv;^d ha- ving caft his Body under jtliat fahie Piece Ol Ice they hadftood oa, rctaca'd to the Portu wher^f the other Five arriv'd foon after. iTifeteas Ig^iitt that Wrefcdt confcfs'dof hitf>owft Accbrdi jYttlJlft they bad. hinv in Irons. : , '.ci^^^id Ud trrii I, It had -been refolt'd ;ta fctep 'him i^iithat Manner, till the Arrival of the nqcir.ijhipia^ aboard wtiich he wa& to have been fiut^^ b«tib€f fore any Relief could come, the ^£«gi//l^r:a^t8C'k'd tfhtle ^^^ ^^^^' "^^^^^ ^^° guarded it h^d«lsakea Care to keep all the Gannon and Fi^iB^^Epck)i they bad, charg'd, and by that Mcani i^wewe. ia\ a Condition to make a furious BlrevAupoa the Enemf^ v?hen they would have niadc^thei^ Approaches. That extraordinary Firc^ Vlhick kiird and wounded feveral of thei^ Mtn, ftad«. them believe there were flill many Men ia the l^ort.and dierefore they went bj^v ^^iit iv»ith a Refolutian ito return very foon with la i^rcatcf Powef . Accordingly they retum'd oonditwiere preparing iwith a ndrtvoere m./ The ngtiiiino ii^^Evcipc : Gannon be Smith ill been; kfl6Wn- but nf^L <;! ^p tnem has not haw here rkted!'^ ^^"^^ '" Account of all I The Difafter befal'en F 7)^/,„^ ■mx-'J\ j ^ 5;/w£r from eoine ToL T- i^* ?"' <^"«^'" /"""'s Bay to ftf^l fh,^^ Time after to iVW- a Way to KO Dread, ^thP^^fr'^'^ "P"' ''*"""'=" Nofthcrn sfva«r ™h,v ., Gofpel tp the moft was to devote m* ftlr^ *r 'W' '^'«»«» the ffi^/^„trepoflefi=a ofin HuMAn^^l *^°4^? if MM S 2 We ( 26o ). We imbark'd on the loth of jiugH^. and about Mid-night came to an Anchor, in turuing of Cape Tonrmeme^ which is but Leagues from Quebec, and cali'd X^^tfrrner^te^bC' cauK.if there is never fo little WindjtheiW'Ater is there as Boifterous as in the Sea. \Ve turn'd that Cape on the Eleventh about Sev^n pi*; Eight in the Mqrning^ but did not m^ke mtich iWay the reft of^that Day, nor for Three Hays fallow- ing, becaufe the Wind was contrary* \r^ii ;> Belle Ifle. jhc Twenty Firit, .we pafsM hf'Selk^ JJle, which appears to be round and lyes in Fif^y Two Degrees of North Latitude and Two lilundred Twenty Leagues from Quehecy in the. midft; of a Streight, form'd by thePle of Nemfrun^UttdA^Vii Moumains the C9ntincnt of Tierra ile, Labrador, Wc tegan ^' ^''' then to fee fome of thofe great Mount^ifls of Ice, which float in the Sea and difeover'd fl^ut Twenty of them. At a Diftance they lopkM like Mountains of Chriftal, and fome of, them; like Rocks, {uU of fharp jutting out E]oint;§. oi ? ThffTvv'enty Seventh, the Mornii|g was Very Calm fJM in the Afternoon the W^ifld^iptt^vM . contrary, J5)L»w hard and lo continu'd the jTwen- ty Four^l^ and Twent;y, 3?iifth. The Sqafojiwas /ar ady^fic^a and we ^f^qre gping into a,Coui:itry w here ij|c Winter ani;icijpi^te8 AututpQ y opr La- titude ,w!as then but^FJi^ty. S»k Degrees^ «nd we bad ftiUajlong ryn thro^glji a dangerous Sea; by Reafon of the great J&ank"vpf Ice j^fually :met with there;, amidft vv^ich^r^yve were, ^lipv .P'ake our Way to the Latitudf'^0;f Sixty n^^ei]^ pe- grees. " ' „ ■ " ^ "'.. ,, ._, .. The Twenty Eighth, about Eight in tjip E- vening came up a Snail Gale, which is ;hqre a Sort of Trade Wind, or Monfon, wl^ich being right aftern, -caus'd us to make much Wiy during two or three Days it lafted. The Thirty Firft, the Vfineskv the bqt^ ^.ight ^'q turn'd 1 pr; Bight nuch ;Way iy$ /allow- ^ettii JJle, Fif^y Two ) lilundred midfl; of a We tegan mnt^i^is of rer'd fl^ut lopkM like them; like ?• 01 ?• g was very Ifld^OPtt^Y'd the vTwen- SQafoii .was a> Country &% and we >U5 ,3ca; by dually sHiet ^,,;9,;piake <^^ei]^ Pe- ia tjip E- is thqre a l^ich being S/iy during lirty Firft, the ( 261 ) tb« Wind Mted a little, but ftill continu'd fa- vouj^bltf ', bi^t it fetched up a thick Fog, which hindered our feeing the Land we judg'd our felres to be near, as we really were. About Noon the Weatherclear'd up and we eafily perceit'd the Coaftv-^before which -lyes^ a Number ot Rocks, calrdi the Sugar Loaves, becaufe they are of that Shapej^ and they were all cover'd with Snow. About Evening w« 4ircoVeT'd the Mouth of ^^e^treight, * which looks into Hnd fan's Bay. Tliat Stf eight, t^hiih is call'd the Channel, or T^^ckin- fi Nm Stretch, is very difficult to pafs, by Rea- S^ ^, ''!' fonofithelc^ continually coming from the cold?,! Countries, which runs, out that Way into the Gceaa- Th^ Land of the Streight lyes about. W N W & E S E. At both Ends of the Streight there are fome Iflands lying to the Southwat^d. ! Thofe iQands which lye at the Moutii of thei^ireight on the fide of Europe^- are^calr^l Bittofth lH^nds, znd in about Sixty „„,,„, Degrees ant fome odd Minutes of North Lati- ^^T dV tud2. V Thofe at the other End of the Streight vis'* /. are call'd I>4w'/'s Iflands and lye in about Sixty- y^^"-^^- three Degrees. Th€rc are belides feveral in the Middle ol and along, the Streight, which is an Hundred Thirty Five Leagues in Length, it : is a- bout Sevtnror Eight Leagues over in the Nar- roweft Place, but generally wider. At feveral Diftances there are large Bays, efpecially beyond Button'^ iflands. One of them is more confidera- ble than the refl:, through which fome pre- tend there is a Way to the Bottom of Hudfins Bay ^ but that is very uncertain. Ships are fomeTifnes a long while in paffing through the Streight j. but we by good Fortune pafs'd it in four Days. Wc enter'd by four in the Morning on the firft of September^ and were out again the fifth in the Morning, with a Wind S 3 which m\ ( 262 y which was not vpry favourable and Utw ffiw^ft harder the Sixth- the Seventh, the weather grew Calmer, and gave fcveral the Qpportumcy of performing their pevotion?* 'ii-j-'^d The Calm continued the Eighth, Niathv anct Tenth, which gave all the Crew mucbftfteafineft. The next Night the Wind favour 'due. .Qn, the Twelfth we difcover'd the Northern land^ bvit below the Place we Defign'd for. The Wifld proving again contrary, w.e made feveral Trips for fome Days to no Purpose and were at laft o- blig'd to come to an Anchor. We now began to fuffer very much, the Goid increas'd and^.w0 wanted Water. The Night betWefen thcTwien- ty Firft and the Twenty $ec6nd it pliis'dr Qod to giv€f us a fair Wind. i^ w ^ a/ jicubon. The, Twenty Fourth ab^ut Six ia th© BVen^ mg we entcr'd -Bowte. River. All. the ^mn -were extremely rejoye'd. This wasiod a ffrid^ when we fung fome Hynins in TJiankfgiving, The River to which the 'JFrenck haMte given ■ th^ Name of Bourbon, is by the EffgHlh callfd Parttef' /<»/?, a^nd thence mailyfrtfjrirJb call the. Qoilritry a* bout it, the Lands of Pormtm. ThafrrJUver is great, wide and riins far op into the feo^fitry; but having many Falls, ifisnot lo commodious for the Trade of the Nitires, and therefore t\[t Efjglijh 6}' not build their ^«)rt on it's Bank. ^ . „ . , on the S. E. of Bowbvn ,River and into the iame Bay falls another griat Rivety which the French^ who were the firfb Difcoviercrs of it, calld 5/. 7«rf/^, , becaufe the Difeoverer's Wife bore theMamebf tharSaint* r/r, ;::f Thofe two Rivers arc parted from cfrch Whet by a vcry^ low Slip of Laad^ which occifions many Shoals in them both. Theif Months are mabout.Fifty Seven Degrees ^om^ odd Minutes ' ■ •■■ - .- of ?t Tere fa ^ver^ : weather (portttiHCy Horth,; anct Land^ bvit ^he WifJd iral Trips at la ft o- f began to 1 an^ w0 thcTWiC^flr th^Elren- tlie Cr§?!C da ffridt^ nkfgiving, giv©a ■ the Joilritry at 0j JUyer is CoWtty; immodious therefore t .on it's 1*^*1010 the ivbkh the rcrs of it, ifeoverer's jfich otheir Qidcifions ropths are d.Miiiutes of ^J^V^fe^^ they both run upon the Die teiigth^ their Channels are not gbove a Jj^^^'Vfl IT from each other.^ The ShoaU thofh fv» River it was refolv'd, that the />«;/*• ?^^^^-^ that Rivei- and the S^^ma^der pJMi^A^'^''^ ^^^ *^'"^ whereof the f%mhm built their Fort, ^ndqii the Slip o£ LaAjf i^irhich parts the two Rivers. '" r^ ^ ** AA^arriv^l, ^ has .been laid, the Twenty F6wrt]^^or_Pecemher, about Six in the Evening 'lU.w'y ' 1^ 5*^'^''; '^^^^ ^^^y N^'s'^t fomc of o«? Me^^efe fet afliore, la order to endeavour to ^mitefomc of the ^«r^/,;/&. They had much W^-^j^ set to Land, by reafpn of the ?\o.3f>aQcJwereforc'd to leap into the Water, ^hi0i. was a great Hardfhip tne Banks of the Oliver being already frozen. An Iroquois Indi^ Tl )!JH°1 y^^^ been^elTr'd to baptize, when I lejt^wi?^^^,:, vvas.on^qf thofc fent afliore. Con- sidering the Panders he was going to be expos'd to, I thought It not fit to defer his Baptifm any I "¥!^jJr^"8 put it of till then, that he might be tlie better jnftruaed. One of our C^nUiAns, who fpe^ks the W/oi/e Language perfedly well, was very fervlceable to me in inftruding of him. The People we fent afhore could not take any Enillfi Mah,,becaufe we had been difcoverM the Moment we arriv'd, and they immediately re- tirdinto their Fort-,, but on the Twenty Fifth they brought us two of the Natives, whpm they hadt^keh near the faid Fort. Mnfeur d" Ikervilleyv'^sgon that Day to found ge River, in Order to find fome convenient Place, where our Ship might lye under Shelter flurmg the whole Winter, and had found one S 4 very ( 246 ) Yery convenient. After having vlfitcd tjioft he had appointd to Land and given them his Orders, he dircSttd Mofj/teur d' Serif im to carry t,\\b^Poli to the Place appointed, and on the Twenty Se- venth went himfelf to the SMmandek' Whi* ther Ifollow'd him. j . That fame Day in the Evening we afriV*d at the Mouth of the River of St, Terejay MnfuHr d Iberville fet out about Midnight to go Jfpund that fecond River. The Twenty Eighf wei%nt a League and a half up the River by the jkAp of the Tide. The reft of the Day was' ■(Jent in foundmg all about. The Twenty Ninth we ad- vanc'd again about a fliort League arid Monfiew d JberviUe went alhore, to mark out his (pamp and the Place where he would have th^' Ship come up. He found one to his Mind, half a League above the Fort. A great Pgint bf high Land jutting out into the River, there fbrras a Sort of Creek, where the Ship could lie fully Ihelter'd from the grating of the Ice, wluch h much to be apprehended in the Spring. Our Men that had been fet a/hore were brder'd to incamp in that Place. There were hot above Twenty of them, but the Natives had told the Englifi, that they were Forty, or Fifty, which kept them from going out ot tlie Fort. The Thirtieth, we could not poflibly: id Vance : On the firft of O^o^^r we continu'd ib the fame Condition, the Wind being ftill contrary, our ^?.^^^^.Sfound at low Water and thefe bein^ JO PofTibiiity of tacking. In the mead Time the Wind, the Cold and the Ice increased every Day. We were within a League of the Place where we were- to Land and in Danger of not bcii ' able to reach it. Our Crew grew very uneafy° ladvisd them to have Recourfc to God, who Ua not forfaken us, during our Voyage and ( 265 ) tl¥M.«[J|-Pay.tbc Win* came about fair tor M^»i , I ■ .. ' . .;■ ■ . Jkb^xxi Six in the Eyeaing we wcigh'd Anchor the Moon Ihining very bright and with' t|ie Help Our Gf»^^»4»i/eturn'd no other An- fwer. than mt\\ Si^Jfu^Kfues^ fo they call the ShQute of rejoycing t^iey qfe in Wa;*, which we Cal[//i/;u:^. '.^ .■ ;rr / .:J]»e Second, our Ship had like to hare pe- rimd. As we were making ready, in Hopes to be very foon in the Port, which we fould al- moft reach, a great Cloud of Snow took away ^'??.,"-i**^ Sight pf, the Land and a ftrqng Guft of Wind at N W qaft' us on a Shoal,, wjiere we ftuckat high Water. There wehad a difmal Night, About Ten the faid Night, the'lce car- ry'd by, the Stream and pufh'd on by tl^e Wind began to beat againft our Ship, with Vfuch a dreadful Force and Noife, that it might have been heard a Lcl^uc off, which Battery lalted^ four or < five Hours. The Ice beat the Ship fb violently, that it cut: the Planks, ahdinfeveral Places they were rubb'd off four Inches deep. MonfifHr d\ IhervilU caus'd Twelve Pieces of Can- non and feveral other Things, which could not belolt,: or rpoirdin the Water, to be thrown overboard, to lighten the Ship j and afterwards had thofe Pieces qf Cannon cover'd with Sand, forFear they Ihpiild be carry'd away in'the Spring by the Force of the Ice. . ":.-' ,4 The Third, the Wind fomewhat abating, Monfmr d' Iberville coricloded to unlade his Ship, ; \ which C 265 > which was /till in IWiiger 6f perifhrire.' Wt could not make ufe of the long Boat rot* \hat Scryice, there being n6 PoiTibiHty of calrying it a croft thff Ice, whkh ftill came on in" A-cHt Quantity; .'bat we m*d the Ganoe^' hiiffi 6f Bark, wMeh w'e had brought from ^^hc^^ijd which our i^artadUns conTey*d athwart the Ice, with . wonderful Dexterity . . . ^ i ;. r .» I had bfeen out ^f OWerfomc Days iilfif^ Bid a Fever. Monfieurd' /i&em'/Ar prefs'd' me t(^^ go aftorei but I conid nSt* think of quitting ific Ship, whiift it wa^ in fbch Danger, and feeing all the Cre^ iii fuch' Ji donfternatibn. fias foon after obli^'d to c^onf^nt on Account of tiid W. d'l.fad News brought bs, Mi Monfienr de adfiian- Brmber' ^""'^^ 3 Yourfg Officer, dbout Nineteen 'Yeafs of m% ^S^ and Brother lo M^nfiifir d" JbeMte.Ud. gone to make a Ihot toward? the Eniiifh Fort, to amufe thdm, that they niight not tak^ 'No- tice of the ill Conditio^ viTc were in, aid ap- proaching too near to l^ W^^'fhot quitt through the Body. He defir'd I would come tp hdar his Confefllon, and I wVrtt' ittimediatelvi ^e thought at firftthat Wouncf had not b^'^n mor- tal; but wore foon undeeeiv*d, for he dy*d the next Day^, ■' '. ■'';■. -'i^'^' "'-- Butambnient befori?,'we had he^PdW!tte Toll and were inforro'd that Ship was itf nb left danger than ours. The Wind, the Ic^j and the Shoals had aHconfpir'd againit it. Onte it ran a^roui}d,agreatPiQceof the Keel had been ^ar- Dange-^y^ away, fo that four Pumps would nbtdif- rous Po- Charge th6 Water it made. Several Barrels of ^«reo/»*e Powder had taken wet ii^ unloading of theVef- ^^'f^' fel. It was not yet come to the Pkce Whete it Ihould have wintered and there wa^ d^pgcr ^hat it could not be qittfd up thither. ^'hv- li All tot '^hjit I in grcu the Ice, Uwm tic tb^ go ting tfrc id feeing .' i Aias ft of ihd Yeits of M, had [/fc Fort, akie No- and ap- thrtiugh h^ar his ;^n mor^ difd the ni left and the c it r^n ieen hr- ndt dif- rrels of hV:Ver- rlrete'it 44pgcr u;';; .\u..\ All ^ AH :th^ melaacboliy Accounudid^.n^ make 445»f^tr«r d'Jkervf/it difmay. ! He w»8»vcry djuth cpoccrnfd at this Detthiof his Brother^ whom he J^ always tenderly lov'd; but hetcfiga'd him* lelt to God, m whom he placUialBhis Confi- dfiflcei and Confidei-iag, that the hmft 3icn of uftwfincfsm bis Courfteiaiicc, wonld pot ail his Mcja into a ComlefflatiQ©, he ftill hot e up, with W^s^^ftm Rcfolution,. fctting all the Men to w^irj5j :aaifl| birofelf and giving his Orders with? as iflfMjph Pjefcdcc Of Mind as ever. God corafbr- Jfidvhimthffame Day^for the fame Tide carry 'd 1^ th^ Ihips out of Danger, and con^ey'd th^WiHtothef Places appointed for. them to win-* jt^BlHi Fiftbji I baiptiz'd two Gbildrcttof an /«^ dt4ft, who had been long ilck, and I tHcsn judg'd th^ .to be in Danger. I was the hmrc hafty, Nf^yfQ the aext Day, the Nativife wierh to dc-. pan^to fpend the Winter in the Woods at d gi:'eflfi Qiftancfe from? m^ They were .both the i^^l 0fione Father; but by feferal Mothers, WygBmy being ailowM among the STavages of tWti Gounti'y. One of them dy'd,and the Fa- tb^htpi^ht the other to me again the next Spring, as he had promifed. Our next Care was to build Huts to ualdad the Ships and to pt^- pa(cc for i:he Siege. , ; i iiv.^uiaui. ; iTh^Mnth I fecout towards tte ?b/^, where' Mmfi^PT Wr 7i7/y, a Lieutenant had been dange- rwifly ill for fome. Days. This was the firlB J«ur4^y I took into the Woods of AmericM. Thfc Ground w« were to travel over is very Marfliy and we^etie^biig'd to go far about p- a!tfoid>' the. Bogs. The .'Water begari to frcere^ bat the Ice was not thick enough tD beat us, arad we: often futikuplhalffW&y the Leg. iThus we tf&tel'd .Five Leagues on the Snow -and in -'• the :^p.i ( 258 ) t*c Woods, if we may gite them that Name- lor there are no folk! Woods in that Country, and they are no other than Bufties and thick Brambles Ilk, foine Places, iutcrmix'd in others ' with open Plains. Being (Ame to the Bank of the River of Baur^ hen, we were much perplex'd. T' e River there IS a League and a Half over, it is very rapid andl at that Time was full of floating Ice. Thofc who toorc^me Company, thought the PaOage impra- «icable and 1 had much Difficulty to prevail with them V but foon after the River dcar'df the Ice beine carry'd away by the Ebb. We^ then imbark'd, after having carry'd our Cano^ over the Ice that was along the Bank- We fet^ oui- about Sun fetting and t,ot ftfe aboard joft at Might ^all.- :,/ ^ We found the bliip in a fafe and convcriitoi Flaceandthc Men began to recover afCer their Iftte Fatigues, Having perform'd my Duty to- wards the iick ,Man, I went in the Afterdo'^a to vifit our CanaMans And S&ilcfrs -who had hutted alhore. When return'd I was told the River was paflable and therefore went off immediatly, having Dromis'd to be back, becaufe of the At- tack of the Fort. , fcS ..IJe Eleventh we arriv'dat our Camp, where ail Things were in. a great Forwardnefs for the Siege. Agood Way had been made acrofs the Wood, to carry up the Cannon, Mortars and Bombs. The Twelfth the Mortars were plan- ted. The Thirteenth, when all was ready to fire we lent to fummon the Enemy to furrender, olfering them good Terms, if they yielded im- medially. They demanded to be allowU till Eight the next Morning tore irn their Anfwer anddefird they might not be difturb'd that Night about the Fort, which was granted'. The ^-^J next ^. -■ . <• t Name- Country, nd thick ia others of Bovr^ ver there apid and^ hofc who e imi>ra- > prevail ' dcar'df bb. We^ r Ganoes We fef d jail: at mtriletki ice( their Duty to- (tirAo^a d hutted le River nediatly, the At- )i wHere for the rofs the ars and re plan- eady to rrender, Ided im- •wUtill Anfwer I'd' that i. The next (^69 ) next Day, at the Time appointed they.f^nt c^t their Articles, which were allowed, without 'ny Difficulty ^ for they neither demanded their Arms nor their Colours. Theit' Miniftcr had drawn up the Capitulation m L4tm and I was In- terpreter on our fide. They hrd iieen in a fright CTer fi;,ce our Arrival, and had all ^he while kept clofe up, without Aarinfe to sd out ewea in the Night to get Water at the Ri- ver, which wafhes the Foot of the Fort. - ;M>ff(kur. d' IberviUt fent Monfwm dtt Tatj his Ueutenaat, the fame Day, with &^ty Menl to take Pofleffion of the Fort. He went himfelf the next; Day, being the Fcaft of St. Tet^fa and gave itithe Name of Fort Bc>urbch,\ f-id Mifs there ihc fa?-»e Day^ ^nd we fung 7'r Diurk* It is only a wooti-n Fort,, weaker aiid f .aller thaa wej had imagiii'd; rbc Booty alfb^oand lA it was mqce incor.fiderabtethan had. been expeaed. ThAtewcreiQ itFifty/|ThrceIJE>7^^ ilJ-of them ^^^l}^}^- ^^^^ Their Commamder ^as better skiird an Trade than in Martial Affairs, havine never been a Soldiet, which was the Caufe o" :'rr< fa! N V\ hisjTurrendcring fo cafilyp That feme Day I thought fit to retiurn, toifce i>/aiV2f«^;iifc 7Ji//jf^ wfi^iji' I had ieff Very ill. I fee ottii ifter dinoer ahd coniing ft* fhe'Bartk of BoHrhon River, we found it injpaflable j for which Reafoawehuttcd and Ihy'd thcrtf**lNh*t' night. Thff nex:t Day, „ the River being la. ^^(!» better Condition, we madegteat SulokesPon vtheBanfe, being the Signal agLcodiob to giv^:!^^^^^*!!^ Ship IV/iof the taking! of the FOTC.^ 'They.'a•> fwetf'd'Wkh the likft Signals* and we 4i#ttirn'd to thet Foct.A Three I^tays »:after,s i«fe« '% ,oa the iEigfateewuH of O^^hti; iMinfieitr^h'Cdfimm^ ^vo- thet to Mfi»/ieur df ^//^ two other&^Vjf his R^ htms^^CanddiAn mi I'^enkti^lw tiJ^be-Ri- ■••-T ,1-: ' \ . ■ ver u ■ ( 270 > ver and pa-ft'd ft the next Day, with veifcctween the Fort*and:|he foll^Monimthc fiicte sin both Places. !foi srn i- ioo'i s((3 e^rlitw rbiflw fT. bon/ro^ff»aDore^tn« F<^t, wher« fdme lOands' c^&ntraa: over, the CUanpel » but jive ilidinpt ; begin to pafsover jjpon the Ice. before the Fort^till thcML^th cyf JVovemhr.[ Ms Mouf!lfoa^iR\jet was not ^uitc vFroizen,^)?^ l^tlll ithse. Nights fcetweeii /the vs3d. ^nd. the . ;i4Bh, 6f ^kfmdttj> 1695. 3Rrdm that .Time forward we wfcntlddiciaiy over, on^ the Ice; to the. W^ whichHftv,U;iteJvery maoh Way. The Ice began togi^ way in the River ^fSt. Terffay on tiHe jQth cff jf/^i^^Und not- i till the nth of jHtjf ia Bourbon KMri Omthe'ioth of July we imbark'd tovM down with; mrl^wo Ships toithe Moiilhbfithfei Kmt oiSti'Terefa ?here to.expRjft the £^/<^ ^h;ps^ wWcb iiAjally ":«ome aoQut that Time fihoc owe, waited in vain jfor they ^^Ht\ 1 appeato'dj- "Si -^ . . • /i «-«« -^ ' .: I had i^fuw f7- ►enFcizen • pats: over e ii^Bth of not quke 'the '^3(1. from that m, on-tbe aoh Way. iver 0fSt. t^i till the tfie loth '■©ur'S^wo ck tt&ally ik vain, to {Jearn thought had re- near the w6en the Man was not their /ho hated Hamour, ritheVi- fits { »7i ) ntf rl madft them ha* c^^ goad EfffA, for I was beanpe, fijmili^r w'lf^ that poor Man, and 1 be- gan to liiftrua him.jttic, belt I pc^^y. he fell SicKKlplir'd Baptjfip,;, afnd I had the Satisfaai- oa, tpi a^iraimfter ,if to- him befor^he dy'd. Here follov;s. what Ihave been able to learn ooflipe^nij^g the Natives ot that Country. . ir^pare ^eveii.pr Eight fcverai Nations, Indian that m^iDeaiiag^m^h the Fort, and Three i^'*"*^. H*»^re4}or more pf,-th<;ir Canoes came thither tq.rJ)ria#!rthi8 y««r KJ55. The j^lt. diltant moftr.niMliierous, aod.mufli confiderable are the 4mt(ftM and the Kri^if^ otherwise call'd th« KH'ffi^^f^s mxi if Jf, oplyrequifite to learn the L»«g«ag^ of,tho^Jj4yp^ Nations.. Xh€ Lan- gM^^,[the i^fftcfc, wliich is ^^ki^nquwe and -^^^Tr^^ aav^S.w^q ^re o^m^^, the Fort lyW /am^ bati^/orfle few ,Word? .an^ aimafl W^P^ce rim th^^ 4ccfftt. The Language of m m9tk(i4f.Ui^r: 4iflerent fr<^ undertarke, the feme War,s. Sevc* [^imrMm ^wi'o*// ffoeak the i-aaiguage of the Ar;o^Wi*d Tfircnty Five I)ays Jourtfey to it from the Fort \ the j4jfimboels are Thirty^ Fivcj or Fbrty^ Ifeys jpurneyfrom the {aid Fort.'", [^ V^"* f* Natives Thofe Savages are well fhap'dv they arc lafge^ deferib'd. ftrong, brisk, and hardy tb endiire Cold'and Fatigae. The J^j^w/W/ have large FigureS^^ on their Bodies, teprefen ting Snakes, Birds, aiid fcveral ^ther Things^ whidh they meke 'by pricking the Skin with HWle ftarp B^wei and filling up the Holbs wkh thd Duft af Ch!a#oOle. They are fedatc and feem to ] be very ti^mftiick. The -RTm** are more fprighily, always- iii-^J- on, and continually Sinj^ingVand ibanciag/ filoth of them are brave and Love Wati Th&jiffitiikoks are compar'd to the FUMmings and tfit^'X^Ms to the Gafcom, and thdr Humours have f^aflly foroe Refemblance with' tht>fe two 'NWidflS. ^ They , are always wandriiig aad removittg ItOm Place to Pla^e, living upon wHat they - Mil In . Hunting and Fifhing, In t^e'Summeff tfeiy &f- femble at the Lakes, where they continuie #Wo or Three^ Months, and ^heiifhfey;gt^ gathet Willi Oats, which Is «11 their Scorfev.^^*' '-''j bau. . Thofe neir' The SaVages n^x't^Ho'tW jsdft Mffc^attoge- tbeforu thcr up6rf Hunting vt*iiy^*&/c eontinailly tUR- ning about ill' the wddds, Vvith6ut fixinj-ih' any Place, ertlier ' Summer bt- Winder, unle& Whfen they meet»'^th much -cSafney for ^c»nHhey Hut there indftay ti^l-fbife^^haVe iio' tmk to Eat/ ^hey^at^e otten fedutt'd^to live thtlieor foui^ Pays without Eatirtg, 'fbi? 'Waiif 6f Fore- cafti 'They are alfo, like thb others Hardy to endure Cbld and Fatigue \ but in Other Refpcfts they are^ Cowardly, Tim6rous,-Idii, Stupidj s^nd altogether Vicious. ' l* ■ • - As to the Religion they profeft) 1 believe it i§ the r^nie as that of the other Savages ) but cannot particularly teH wh^ifein their ^ Ido- ->? Their I{e ligion. i-*5-j 'if lat the Fort jj brty^Days arc large; Gold'and i^igureS^^ on iirds,' aiid mekei 'by Bhi^ and ' (Mioblt. ciagk Both haVc f^aflly ¥irtg Itdm ey Mil in titiaie ^^o ithet Willi ifeiatiog^- lailly t^na- :in0h' any ilefs Wh^n ^€»nHhey y liio^ to « thtlie* or f df Fore- Hardy to er Refpcfts itBpidj ^nd [ believe it ^ages ) but their * Ido- latry ( 27J ) latry con/ifts. I have been infofm'd, that thev have fome fcrt of Sacrifices ; they are ereac Juglers, and have as well as the others the ufe of the Tobacco Pipe, which they calj Cahm.t. They fraoKe the Sun and abfent Perfons, and they have caus'd our Fort and our Ship to be fmok d J however I can give you no Account ot the Notions they may have of the Deity, having not been able to dive into them. 1 will only add, that they are extraordinary Super- Ititious, very Leud, that they allow #f Poly- gamy, and are very remote from the Chnjiian Religion. •' By what has been faid, you may perceive, Reverend Father, that it will be a very difficult Tasic to eftabliiTi Chriftiamty among thefe Peo- ple. 1 believe if any Progrefs may be made in it, we muft begin with the Krkks and Mmboehl tor befides that rhofe Savages are more Nume- rous, they do not fecm to me to be fo remote from Religion. They have more Senfe, at Icaft they arc more fettled for Three or Four Months a Miffion may be more eafily eflabliih'd in their Country. Not but that 1 forefee what Trouble it would coft to fix there, and I know nor whether our Fathers met with fo much Trou- ble in their firft Miffions in Canada, as is to be expecled here ; but that is not to deter us, God will provide for us, and I hope that the more Painful thofe Millions are, the more MifTioners will oifer themfeives to i^v\e God in them. It flill remains, to give you an Account, I^eyerend Father, of the Climate and Seafons in Tht ciu this Country. The Fort, as I have faid before mu. is about the Fifty Seventh Degree of Latitude' featcd at the Mouth of Two fine Rivers but the Soil is there very Barren ) all the Country 1 11 ( 274 ) is Marftiy and full of Plains. There is little Wood and that very fmall. For about Thirty or Forty Leagues about the Fort there are no Timber Trees *, which is doubtlefs occafion'd by the Violent Winds from the Sea generally blowing, the exccflive Cold and the almoft con- tinual Snows. The Cold begins in Seftember^ and is then fevere enough to fill the Rivers with Ice, and fometimes to freeze them quite over. The Ice is not gone till the Middle of Jumy but yet the %)ld does not ceafe then. It is true, there are during that Time fome very Hot Days, for there is fcarce any Medium there betwixt much Cold and much Heat, but that is not lafting, the North Winds which arc very frequent foon difpel that firft Heat, and very often, after Sweating in the Morning, a Man is' almoft frozen at Night. The Snow there lies Eight or Nine Months on the Ground, but not very deep^ ebc greateft Depth this Winter having been t#D or three Foot. ExcefTtve ^^^^ ^°"S Winter, tho' it is always Cold is Cold. not equally fo at all Times. Sometimes indeed the Cold is exceffivc, during which Time there is no appearing abroad without paying for it. There are few among us but what have born the Marks of it, and among the reft a Seaman loft both his Ears^ but there arealfo fome fine Days. That which pleafes me moft is that there is no Rain, and that after a certain Sea- fon of Snow and Powder, fo they call a mighty fmall Snow which penetrates into all Places, the Air is pure and clear. Were I to chufe either the Summer or Winter of this Country, I know not which 1 fhould prefer ^ for in the Summer, befides that the Heats are fcorching, that the Weather often changes from violent Heat to much Cold, and that there are fcldora three is little t Thirty i are no ccafion'd generally loft con- )eftember^ ers with ite over. fune^ but me fome Medium leat, but vhichare [eat, aad irning, a he Snow I Ground, pth this a. » Cold is es indeed ioie there ng for it. lave born I Seaman fome fine is that rtain Sea- a mighty ill Places, to chufe Country, or in the fcorching, \ violent re feldora three ,W- t^'^'J^T ^"?efl'»^ely, there is fuch an iffimenfe Number of Gnats, that there is no going al/oad without being covered with them and Itung on all fides. Thofe Gnats are more Add to this, that the Woods arc full of Water and that there is no going far into them, without being up to the Middle in Mire. ♦1, T :' ^^^ Country be fuch as I have defcrib'd, that does not hinder but that Men may live well enough in it-, the Rivers are full itf Fifh, there is Plenty of all foits of Game, and ail the Winter there are Abundance of Partridges, oU-iu r.„, which we kill'd at leaft Twenty Thoufand! ''^ '^'"' in bpring and Autumn there is alfo a prodi- gious Number of Geefe, Buftards, DucksfBar- nacles, and other Water Foul. But the beft Hunting IS that of the Caribom, which lafts all ttie Year j but more efpecially in the Sprine and Autumn, there are Flocks of Three, o? Four Hundred and upwards together. Monfieur de Sertgmhas told us, that on the Days of AU Sawts and ^// Sonh at leaft Ten Thoufand of them pafs d by, in fight of the Huts the Men belonging to the Ship PoU had on the other fide of the Bourbon River. The Caribous are much like our Fallow Deer, excepting their Horns. The firfl Time the Seamen faw them, they were afraid and ran away. Our Cariadi^ ans kill d fome of them and the Seamen having been Jear'd by thofe CanadUm, took Heart and kill'd fome afterwards. Thus God pro- vides for thofe Savages. Tho' the Soil is Barren God furnifhes them Food, in fuch a Multitude of Game, and giving them Ingenuity to kill it. o o J T ->. ( 27^ ) Northern Befidcs the Nations which come to Trade at Nations, the River of St, Terefa there are others more to the Northward, in a Climate ftill colder than this, as the Ikoviriniouch, who are about One Hundred Leagues from the Fort, but they are at War with the Savages of this Country and have no Commerce with the Fort. Beyond them are the Efquimaus^ and on one Side of the JhvirinioHch another great Nation ally'd to them, call'd the jilimoufpigius^ a numerous People, that have Villages and Itretch out behind the J^niboels^ with whom they are almofl con- tinually at War. I do not yet fpeak the Language of the Sa- vages well, but neverthelefs there have none come to the Fort td whom I have omitted to talk of God. It was a Pleasure to me to make H}m known to thofe poor People who had never heard of Himj many willingly gave Ear to me and at leaft they perceiv'd that I came to fome other End than the Reft of the French, I told them I would go into their Country, to acquaint them with the God I ador'd, and they were well pleas'd, and in- vited me. I know molt of the Words of the Savage Language^ Mondeur de la Motte has taught me many, and an EngUfl) Man^ who is better vers'd in the Language has given me ma- ny more. I have made a Dictionary of all thofe Words, according to our Alphabet, and if I were but a fliort Time among the Savages I believe I could eafily fpeak and underftand their Language. I have tranflated the Lord's Prayer, the Creed and the Ten Commandments into It. I have Baptiz'd only Two Savages at Age, who dy'd iramediatly, and Three Children. Our ade at ; more colder about at they ountry Jeyond ;idc of ally'd merous behind il con- :he Sa- ; fione imitted me to t who ly gave that t of the ) their God I nd in- of the tte has nho is roe ma- ll thofe and if vages I d their Prayer, ts into t Age, n. Our Our Two Ships failed about the Beginning of September 169U and it being likely that thef would go direaiy for France,} chofe rather to inhirrlt *^T' ri^ ^'Bhty Men left the e Dciieve, that having more Leafure after the De- parture of the Ships, I might perfeftly lelrn the Language of the Savages, and put my felf hJf l.^X'^'^'T'^ ^""^^S^^ ^ Miffion there/God came and befieg'd and took us. 1 told you when I went over to France the Particulars orourlm- }l^7^'' I am.'"'' '' '^''-^'^ ^^ ''^''' ^^^ Reverend Father ^ Tour won humble and moftr obedient Servant in our Lord, Gabriel Mar EST, i^(po»er ^ of the Society of Jesus. ExtraSi of an Account of the Country of ^ccadia, i» North America, yielded up in the hfi Treaty of Peace by the Kjng of France, to the Crown of England, con- tuning 4 Defcriftion thereof with the Cu* Jloms, Manners, and Religion of the Na- pves, &c. Untten in the Tear i-j 10, by a French Gentleman, and fent to a MtfU- oner of the Society of Jesus. rSail'd from Rochelle on the 20th of jiu^un '<^5)9i and the Seafon bein^ fhr advanc'd had a tedious Voyage. The Wind provM often T 3 very ( 278 ) very boifterous and having once been contrary for fome Days, I took Notice of a ridiculous Cultom among the Saylors. One of them cry'd, that the Wind we wanted was in fbme Cellar, which was an Indication that every Man fhould be made to drink for it , but that Contrivance proving Unfuccefsful, another faid we Ihould never have a fair Wind till they had whipp'd a Grummet Grummet, it was unanimoufly Voted, and where- rvhipp'dfor^^ it is ufual at other Times to draw Lots d Wind, for him that it is to fall on, they now laid hold of one who had ftolen fomething from a Sailor, and lafli'd him feverely. He roar'd with all his Might, but the Mate told him, he ihould never be fpar'd till he call'd for a N, E. Wind, which was that we wanted, immediately he cry'd j^orth East, and was as foon difmifs'di. It happened that the Wind came about fair in a ihort Time and thus the Seamen were pleas'd with their Folly. At length we arriv'd on the Great Bank of NtwfoHndlandy where the Sailors Duck all thofe, who have not been there before. The Manner of doing it among the French is thus, three or four other Sailors take up the Perfon to be Vmlivg, duck'd by the Arms and Legs and dip his Pofte- riors feveral times in a great Tub of Water, and at laft drop him into it, with his Feet up againft the Edge of the Tub, and whilft he is ftruggling to get out, the reft of the Crew pour Half a Dozen Buckets ot Water over him ^ all which is redeem- able at the Price of a certain Quantity of Brandy. To leave thefe extravagant Diverfions of the Sailors, 1 obferv'd upon the Bank, that the Water is there whiter than in any other Part of the Sea, and the Reafon of it is becaufe the Sand we took up with the Lead was as vvc took ontrary diculous n cry'd, ; Cellar, a fhould trivance e fhould hipp'd a I where- iw Lots low laid I from a r'd with le fhould f. Wind, itely be ifs'd. It air in a : pleas'd Bank of all thofe. Manner three or m to be lis Pofte- iter, and p againft ggling to a Dozen 1 redeem- Brandy. IS of the that the J other 3 becaufe was as ii _ «»» _ iiS, vvc took ( 279 ) took as much Cod as cover'd the Deck, asalfo another fort of Fifh, in Shape like a Place, of a Dark Colour on the Back, and the Belly white • ^eUate but it is four 6r five Foot long, two or three'^'^* in Breadth, and one in f hicknefs. Our Lines could not bring them up, but as foon as they were on the Surface of the Water, our Men llruck them with Harping Irons, and one was as much as two of them could draw up. W6 have found a whole fmall Cod in the Belly of one of thofe Fifhes. The Head of it is fat and delicious ; and from the Bones is fuck'd fuch an excellent Subftance as furpalTes the fweeteft Marrow. The Eyes, which are as big as a Man's .Fift are alfo delicate, and the Belly of It is nothing Inferior. The Seamen eat only thofe P^rts I have mention'd, and throw the Body into the Sea. Tho* fo good frefh, we falted fome and kept them a Day or Two, and they were ftill better. Abundance of Wa- ter Foul ply along the Bank feeding on Fifb. Some Days after, we difcover'd the Coall of Nem France and Ten Englijh VefTels fifliing along It, who told us we were off Port St. HeUn^ and the iiext Day we could fee a very wooddy Country. Wood and Water growing fcarce, and the Wind blowing hard, we put into a Port our Seamen call Chibomon^ but fet down on the Bayefennc Map Bayefenne^ on the Coalt of Accadia, This^"''- Harbour is very Spacious, forming a good Bafon, befet on every Side with Firr Trees, and on the Bank of it Huts for the Fifhcrmen and Stages to dry Cod, but then abandon'd, I went a fhore and having made fome Shots at the wild Foul, the Natives took the Alarm and two of them arm'd with Axes and Fire Locks met our Seamen, who went for Water, but as foon as they underftood that we vi ere French they laid down their Arms. T 4 The Nithet tbojrd the Ship, Port Roy al tiov? Anapolis Jorvu. ( 280 ) The next Morning Three of their Chiefs came aboard :n a fmall Canoe, to vifit us. We entertained them with Fifh and Flelh, and the^' eat Bisket and drank Brandy very plentifully, v;Khout exceeding the Bounds of Sobriety. I obferv d that they faid Grace very devoutly both before and after Eating. Each of them had a Fair of Beads about his Neck, and they had been Baptad by a Prieft, who was fince Dead, and whom they had bury'd. I went to fee his Grave and found they had made a fort of Arbour over ^^^ 2 uul"^^^,'* ?^ ^ '^^^^ Stone, was a Heap of Pebbles, plac'd in decent Order. I gave thofe Jndfans fome Powder and Shot for thsm to bring me wild Foul, and they would certainly iiave done It, but that the Wind proving fair we J? . *.J^^Jl^'^^^^y' ^^P^ng along the Coaft; but tHc Weather changing we fpent four or Jive Day ^before we could get into Port Royd our intended Harbour having been fifty four Days in our Paflage. . The Town of Port Royal (Note, Once for aU^ that this being now in the Hands of the Englilh *< cattd Anapolis) takes up Half a League in Length, and about as much in Breadth. The Houfes, which Hand at a good Diftance from each other, are no other than very ill contriv'd Cottages, with Clay Chimneys, and enquiring tor the Church, I found it no better built than the reft, for It look'd more like a Barn than the Houfe of God. The Curate having e^tertain'd me very courteoufly,conduaed me to fee a Houfe, which I hir'd, it had formerly ferv'd for a Church, was the belt ui the Town, and confi- ited ot three Rooms on the Ground Floor, with H^^'!;^^L?^^i; ^^^"'^ ^"^ a Stone Cellar under the Middle Room. The r Chiefs us. We and they entifully, riety. I utiy both :m had a had been cad, and lis Grave our ov^r a Heap ive thofe to brinig ily have fair we I Ck)aft5 four or rt Royal ky four f for aH^ £ngliih ague in \i. The ce from ^ntriv'd iquiring han the lan the srtain'd Houfe, for a d confi- r, with under The ( 281 ) The Country all about the Town looks Plea- iant enough, and the Avenues being Narrow a very ftrong Place might be eaiily built there. Two Rivers almoft encompafs that Spot of Land. The firft of them, callM the Dauphin's is about oaupMn as wide as the Sewy comes down from about j^wr. feven or eight Leagues above Port Royal, and there are Inhabitants on both fides of it at certain Diftanccs, as ulfo good Meadows. There are alfo fome Inhabitants upon the fame River, jbelow Port RoyaL and fome Orchards, as well Planted with Apple-trees as any in Normandy^ batine that thefe Trees are not Grafted. Thofc Dwellings reach down almoft to an Ifland, call'd /' JJIe aux Chevresy or the Ifland of Goats^ which is a League from Port Royal, Below that Ifland the Sea forms a Pafon, which reaches to the Sea, being about two Leagues in Length, and one in Breadth, very Beautiful, and there is good Anchoring every where. Two Redoubts on each Side of the Entrance, would fecure it, for it is not above fifty Paces wi3e. The other River, taird du Mouliny or of the Da Mou- Mill, and which falls into that 1 have been fpeak- Ha Rjycr. ing of, is not above a League in Length and much narrower than the other. There are three Mills on it, one for Corn and two for fawing of Timber, with three or four Dwel- lings. The Flood goes up almofl; to the End of it, but not fo far up the other. The Soil there is fruitful enough, produ- cing all Sorts of Herbs, as alfo Fruit and Corn, and there is Filh and Flefli, Wild and Tame Foul, of all which more hereafter. There are only Three Towns in all that great Only three Country oi Aecadiai, the firfl: is Port-Rvyal ofTovms in which 1 have already faid enough •, the fecond is ^'^"'^'^- les Afities^ nr fh*» Minpc nnA 7ii>^,.U^fr,M th^ r._^. third, ( 282 ) third, I never was at thefe two lall and there- fore cannot give any Account of them ; but this les Mi- 1 know, that hs Mities affords more Corn than nes Tomt. all the reft of the Country, by reafon they hare dreirk'd all the great Marlhes about it^ and that the Inhabitants of Pon-KoyMl have fettled their Children there on the Lands granted them for peopling and improving of the Country, where- in they fucceed very well. As for BeaHbuJJin, fo call'd by reafon of it's Situation, It is the fmalleft Towri, and has the leaft Produd. The Climate is the fame with France^ the Summer is about the fame Degree MuthCcU.^} ^^a^ ^"t the Winter is colder ; for it Snows almoft continually, and the Winds that blow are fo cold, that they perilh the Face *, there is no going abroad during the Foudrilles, fo the Inha- bitants call the Time wher* it Snows and Blows hard together. The Snow lyes there Seven or Eight Months on the Ground, efpecially in the Woods, which makes the Air fo Iharp. Lipor to The beft Drink they have here is a Liquor -P'^w*. made of the Tops of the Firr Trees well boil'd and then put into Casks, with fome Leaven and Molafles, where it ferments for Two or Three Days, and then fettles. When clear they Drink it, and it is not amifs, but the common Drink is Water and thofe who have no other, are neverthelefs llrong and fit for Labour, because they Eat much and do not work always; for they laL-no mere Fains than is re- quifite barel: > fivi, bel.ig contented in their little Huts with as much as fuffices Nature. «'fJ!!y^^ .T^^y ^^5 ^^^y prolifick, few Houfes b 'ng ^cmctt. without Five or Six Children, feveral h.^e more, and two Couples near Tort Royal had each Eighteen, and a third Couple»Twenty Two, being llill likelv to have manv mnr^a XI^a \I7^man ' • ' ' ' are itc nev or the i among den is can ob Parents they mi lity. I\ Parents are ver Keeping Labo Toil tc Upland Woods, well in ken to inconfid throw j they cal arc ovei infinite cuditms which plant fi Places, lay oth( each of with C cannot Works out at at the follow'c chargea Pleatifi when id therc- but this orn than hey hare ind that led their hem for f wherc- n of it's has the me with Degree it Snows )low are re is no he Inha- d Blows Seven or Y in the Liquor ill boil'd Leaven Fwo or n clear but the bo have fit for ot work in is re- in their ire. s b 'ng 1 h../e ad each o, being VV VIIi^M ( 28j ) ire never known to be falfe to their Husbands or the Men to them, nor is there any Lcudnefs among the young People, but as foon as a Mai- den is Marriageable, the firft Young Man that can obtain her Confent is not retus'd by the Parents, for they are all equal as to Eftates and they make no Difference, on Account of Qua- lity. Many Children are not a Burden to the Parents, for as foon as fit for Labour^Iwhich they are very foon, they do more Work than their Keeping amounts to. Labour there is very dear, for it cofts much Toil to make the Land fit for fowiiig. The Barren uplands, which muft be grub'd up in the^'«»''' Waods, are not good j Corn does not come op well in it, and tho' never fo much Pains be ta- ken to manure it, ftill the Crop will be very inconfiderable, and they are often oblig'd to throw it up at laft. The bcft for Corn is what they call the Lowlands^ being the Marihes, which arc overflow'd at High Water •, but then it is an infinite Labour to drein them, and yet our Jc- c4dUns perform it, by means of mighty^Dikes, niieno which they make after this Manner/ Thty ireinMit- plant five or fix Rows of great Trees along the^"* Places, where the Sea enters the Marflies, and lay othtr Trees along one upon another between each of th'ofe Rows, filling up all the Cavities with Clay fo well ram'd in, that the Water cannot penetrate it. In the midft of thofe Works they make Sluces, for the Water to run out at the Ebb, and to hinder any coming in at the Flood. This Work which cannot be follow'd but when the Sea is low, is very chargeable and requires much Labour-, but the Pleiatiful Crop it yeilds the fecond Year after, when the Rain has walh'd that Land, makes 3 menus ior tnr Expence. As thofe Lands be- long (284) bng to many, they all fet their Hands to the ml e'irH"' "■ '^'l H°"e''' ^° °°e Man, he Zt Stv/i*'f •"'" °'^"'' °'- give them fo S^r^ '""""'"■' '' ""^y ''^'i ''one for him, which IS the common way among them. French/*. They are very Ingenious at all Handicrafts' ^.. £ ^^/ l'fl,^""'''''\ '^''^ «" NecS ror Ule, tho they never learn'd thofe feveral t.aps and Stociungs, withoac troublinK them- their'o'w^-'khn''' ^Z'^?"'- They alfo make tneir own Shoes and Linnen, and will eafilir CaT "" ^""6 that is brought them The? ft fntTh^'^i " ^^'^ """J^' » "" them uZ About h^ M-^r'"'.'' '•'^y ''''«"'' nothing^" hniM R ^ ^i'^'"^ °^ W'"'" they began to bnJd, Boats about twenty Foot in the Keel fi£ 'for'S^" ^\"^°^'* was'full of tS ^. ,.F;th:r^of\tSr::^„""''-'-%^.th^ S/ soSr inn'""^'./"';:'^'' the Beginning of the Summ^eV K. "f^ "■"•" the latttr End of the ftTeft [a th/r' " '^°»d certainly periffi were s doni in ir^''°'""'x,'". "'^ 1°"S Winter, as perhans romfT'; ^'"rs "'^ Winter Ld pernaps lonie Part p{ Autumn, fome of the Fr^.^ Inhabitants follow the Hunting of Mar- S. wht'l°r'f7^' '"-'• Bears 'Tnd°o^h"r SeaU'oJves When the Sea Wolves or i" A^ultitudes ^, a^ .wv/ diL- maiiing back to the Sea. One One ft of ther are thu fometic Young they oc Reafon Feet bi of theii have V( like a ( doing a fant thi Of thel( heft the make Si as the ] Countri Ones ha dull Wt I the Hail thofe w it is v( Drefs'd. To fa dians^ tt which tl ing weai and Ral the Wo( better I^ Beautiful Winter big as til Colo a r c efpeciallj Dark Br and thcii nds to the le Man, he ! them fb e for him, ;m. andicrafts, Ncceflaries ofe fcveral te Cloaths, ing them- alfo make will eafily m. They hem upon )thlng of. began to the Keel, I of them, )f them, rhoufaad. Royal, the ingofthe ind of the T'fli were 'inter, as Iter and e of the ; of Mar- nd other 3unt,and a (here to ofe Crea- pafs'd by e Fifber- Liltitudes the i)ea. One ( 285 ; One ftroke upon their Kofes makes an End ot them, and fometimcs Five or Six Hundred are thus taken in an Hour. The Old Ones are fometimes as big as fmall Bullocks, and the Young ones like Calves, all as fat as Bacon, and they only crawl along, not being able to run hv Reafon of the fliortnefs of their Legs, their Feet being like Fms. They do not make ufc ot their Teeth to defend themfelves, tho' they rf ^ ''S'LS^^^ °"^s ^"^ a great Head, much • like a Calf s, but make a great Noife, without doing any Harm. This Sport is no lefs Plea- ftnt than Profitable, and no way Chargeable. Of thefe Creatures they make Oil, which is the belt they have to burn. The Skin is us'd to make Shoes for the French Inhabitants, as well as the Native Savages, and in Fra?jce and other Countries they cover Trunks with it. The Old Ones have their Skins fpotted 21ack and of a dull White, and the Young Ones are all White 1 the Hair of both very fhort. As for their Flefli. thofe who love ftrong Meat may eat it ; but It is very forry Food whatfoever way it is Drefs'd. • To fay fomething of the Diet of the Jlcca^ „. dians^ they are very great Lovers of fat Bacon, which they eat twice a Day, without ever grow- ing weary of it, and prefer it before Partridges vmridgss and Rabits, whereof there is great Plenty in the Woods. Thofe Partridges ot Jccadia are better Meat than ours in France^ tho' not fo Beautiful to look to^ however in the Dead of Winter they are nor. good, but are twice as big as the French, T'nereis no Difference in the Coloar of the Young and the Old. The Hens eTpecially are always Grey, with a Mixture of Dark Brown. Their Tail is broad, like a Fan, and their Wings large j on their Head they have i I i I 7u ( 286 ) have a Tnft of Feathers and a fine Down on their Feet. All the Difference between the Males and Females is, that the former have a large Ring of a changeable Colour about their Mecks, like that of Pigeons. They perch on Trees, and beat their Wings fo loud, that they are eafi./ found by fuch as feek for them. When feveral are together on a Tree, they may be all fhot one after another, becaufe the firing never makes them leave the Tree. When the Snow lies on the Ground they feed on the Tops of the Branches of Trees, which makes them poor and infipid. I mention'd Rabbits before, but am more apt Bares, to take them for Hares, becaufe they do not Burrow, but lye out on the Ground and have but two young at a Tirae,bcfides that their Flelh IS black. In winter they are White and in Sum- mer Grey •, befides in the Winter they having nothing to feed on but the Branches of the Firr Trees, which gives them fo ftrong a Tafte of it, that no Drefllng can take it away* They differ from the French Hares in that they are never fo good, befides that their Ears and Tail are fhorter, and they are not fo large in the Body. The Frefjch AccadUm never cat Veal, nor Lamb, but let them all grow up, and throw the Sheeps Heads, Trotters and Pluck to their Swine, which are the moft Numerous of their Cattle, nor do they put the Tripe of their Beeves to any other ufe. Thofe People look upon Mufliromes as rank Poifon, but I often cat them without being Sick, nor do the? care for Salads. ' «c.c,j, They have all forts of Garden Ware, except J^ots, &c. Artichokes and Sparagrafs, and all excellent in it's Kind. There are whole Fields of Hard Cab bages Cmk. Herbs, L._ * ? Down on etwcen the mer have a about their f perch on I, that they for them. J, they may re the firing When the n the Tops nakes them 1 more ley do apt not I and have their Flelh ind in Sum- hey having of the Firr a Tafte of I vay* They at they are rs and Tail irge in the Veal, nor iud throw ck to their >us of their heir Beeves look upon often cat ij care for ire, except excellent in Hard Cab- baged ( 5^7 ) bagcs and Turneps, which they keep all the Year about. The Turneps are much better ti«a 1 T'u' ^"^ l^.'y ''^'^" ^"^^ them roaftcd in the Embers. They pull up the Cabbages and n'J'.h^T. i". '^' ^*'l^' ^^^^ '^^ Head down and the Stalk upwards, the Snow which falls covers ihem five or fix Foot in Depth, and fo they are preferv'd taking them out of the Snow H^ rf^J?K"r kk'^^'^^^P^^ '''^^^' but The Heart of the Cabbage, and give all the reft to their 8v^ine, which have nothing elfe to feed on in Winter. There are fome Iflands in St. John's River, where it cofts nothing to keep thofc Eeafts all the Summer and part of Autumn! becaufe there are Abundance of Oaks and Beech Trees. In the Spring they put in feven or eight Sows with Pig, there they Farrow and .^ are fatted with the Maft of thofe Treesf and """ kill^nJ^if '.i; '^''''' °?' '^^y ^"^« ^^'^ home. kiUandfalt them, without any other Trouble! The Pigs are delicious Meat fomewhat fmaller and fhortcr than ours. t:n °^n ^f ^?^ •^i^'*/'^'^^ who are well to pafs kill a Bullock and keep it in Salt, the larg.ft Beef. I not worth above fifty Livres ^ and two Sols a Pound IS a fet Price for Beef, which is excel- lent Meat. Thefe Cattle run in the Woods and feed on all forts of Herbs, which gives . them a delicate Relifti, nor do they return Home till forr'd by the Biting of the Gnats. The Mutton is alfo extraordinary good and Mutu« very large; the beft Sheep is fold for cipht Livres, and they are feldom fat but in Autumn becaufe there is little Grafs on the Uplands! which are the only Places where they can feed. Ji7^u ^,°!^ ^'" "*^°y' b"t ^^^P tliem for their WooU. Neither do they kill Cows, becaufe they are great Eaters of Millc. pn.^ r...u.^. that Ill ( 288 ) that is the Reafon why they do not cat Veal, for as foon as the Calf is taken from the Cow, Ihe gives no more Milk in that Country. fouU There is no want of Tame Foul, but dear, and the Inhabitants keep them for Sea-fa- ring Men. Wild Foul is Plentiful enough at fbme Times. Shooting of Ducks, Teal, BuSards and Geefe, is done after a peculiar Manner. When the Foul is far off on the Water, the Fouler hides himfelf in a convenient Place and a Dog taught leaps and skips along the Shore, after a Stick thrown up*, at that Sight the Foul draw near, and the Dog ftill allures them towards the Place where his Mafter lies^ who at one Shot kills a great Number of them. This is done in the Spring and Autumn, for in Winter the Rivers and Lakes are frozen and in Suriimer the Foul go elfewhere to breed. Bc- fides in the Summer there is no going into the Woods by Reafon of the infinite Swarms ot Gnats, which fuck a Man's Blood, and even in the Houfes there is no way to be rid of them but by Smoke. Bujiards* There is good Shooting when the Buftards * fly in Swarms from the North to the South- ward, and when they return from thence again to the Northward, which is in November and May. They are almoft as big as Swans, of the Colour of our Wild Geefe, all the Difference being, that their Neck is of a Violet Colour, and they have large white Spots on each Side of the Head. At the Time when the Fifh comes up, which ^^P' it does not at all Seafons, the Inhabitants drive Stakes about the Mouths of the Rivers and Brooks the Sea runs into ^ the Filh palfes over them at High-water, but returning at the Ebb it is flopp'd by thofe Stakes, and taken by the i-'eopie. Pcopl( Jiot fc inferic nerallj they E fond o what good, they g< they la have w are Sha mon. Asf( of feve Cellars forts t( tion th( licious Woods Plenty 1 a fort c is no 01 Spring i Liquor, Inhabita Tree^ a the Wat it; this Time, s long as ] Cauldroi then to ; H^vin, ments of it's Prod Savages, meat, foi jat Veal, he Cow, r • Lit dear, Sea-fa- lough at BuSards Manner. Iter, the 'lace and e Shore, ight the res them ieSj who >f them, imn, for 3zen and ed. Be- ing into Swarms md even of them Buftards e South- ce again 'jber and 1, of the ifference )ur, and le of the ), which Its drive ers and Ifes over the Ebb by the Feopie. FrHit4 ( 289 ) People. The firft fort of Filh is the SmeFh ' not fo good as m Fr^ct ; next the Plare „oV inferior to that of other Countries but T nerally eaten with Oil, for want of Butter for they malte but little in the Country beine more r^H I ^ '^''^'^fel. bot fmaller and not fo thev f,.?^. ■" ^P'^l" '» ""= ^f^* Water, and they lay them on the Tops of the Houfes that arTsh1d°«''^f" Roofs, to Jry in the "n The mon ' ^"""S^""' P'lchards, Trouts, and Sal- As for Fruit, there is great Plenty of Apples forts'toi'rlf ^i"'"- T^^^'^'-^ ">=">? oth lorts too tedious to enumerate. I will onlv men. Su^^h'^"''. r •'V""' whlh are Zre •": w^i "■*" S^f^ °f <""• Gardens, and the K'of"s^/""h°^'^^'P''^' "°' " "'^te left a for/ nf ^'""''?'"es, which are eaten with a lort of Sugar the Coantry produces which .s no other than a fwefct Liquor diftUlingS Spring from the Sycombre Trees. To fave thU Liquor, which i? as clear as Rock Watir rh, f"'-" "^ Mabitarits -ntakl a deep rounS^H^e^^;' ttte^. 1 ree, ind a Channel m the Bark to convey he Water down to theVeiPel that is torecewJ Tj'm, " J *■?»« to^many Trees at the fame Time, and the Veffels empty'd every Dav as long as the Water runs; they Boil it in areat Cauldrons, till it comes firft to a Syrrun^and then to aSrowniJh Sugar which is verygSod Hwng fpoken of the Manners and Employ- k'rProl^''',^"M[' '"""""o"?' of AccZZ Saw.« u ' ,"'" ?ow proceed to the Native Z L "l")""g.'s their principal Employ. «"""«>! ment, for without it they muft Starve, and Na-""""* '*' IT SiVigi f -f turc •i^^ ( 2ao ) 5 turc Teems to have for m'cji them accordingly, for they s^rc fo robuft, that the][ can' live Ba|ht Days ywithout Eatipg, ooly' Prinklne fonie Sir Bears. Water, which they never want. Jhe Bear is one ot the Beafts they kill with fipit Eafe, when found. Thofe Creatures, at the B^gj^ning of the Winter make them(^lves Dens in the Earth, which they cover with t^ie pjrai^ches Qf tbe Firr Tree, to kee^p off the 3ijip,w \\\i th,(p, next Spring, there they l-ye all the Wjiiter, but- what th?y fubfift on I know not, yet; this is certain, that they come out fitter thia ,they. went in. When the lavages kill ♦^Hem they^ Cloath themfelyes with the Skins a^d eat the Flelh, vyhich is faid to be verjr goqd. TbtEJh The Eljfe is hardef to b^ takign, a^nd jmjuil be run down in, thje \yoods, which takqsup two or tbfjje Days. \tU purfu'd by tlje-TrJ^k ont the Snpw, l^iflg n^turatly a flothful, Cre^ture„ that wll fit, or lye in a P^ce as long as j^ has any tl^ipig ,ta feed q^^ Hunters i bu; on|C^ J^^^i^4' it wiU rt^n Night and Pfty tiU it drqps: down- ^an^* %;^Y4ges nevec ceafq to pu^|Rie,j tA\t_the B^aft, is fpcnt,^ when.i^cy cafily kill it,^a^d it is^^pn^e <>f the bell lj)fts of Qame^JOirj^fte Ele|h.is.^'x^i;a^r^^^ nary good, either tr!^,ordry'dj wjief^.^: wpuJd keep all ^th^ Year,; but.th^t thf y npr^rigijfc o- ver ^»tipg.as long as there is ^ny of ^t;ief^. ^ Th^q Tongue and Ithe Snpu; of it are ye^x deli^^te- Thip Qre^tuire, tho^yery lafge,an4ha)^i,ng'^gi:cali Horns iriakcs no Defcnqe ag^nft thejlui^tp^^ Caribou?. The CaifihoH^ which i^a fort c f ^q^ ^s kill; d by lying in wait for it, infome Ptaqe it reforts to, tor it would be imp^offible to riji^ itdown* The Flefh of it Is al|b e^tea/by the jS^y^ges? and it*s^Skin ferves tfeem for "a Siupmer Gar- ment. . . - \ ,iv/ JOl .^, The '^ Bi&ht me 6ir Bear is it Eafe, in the laches Qf ^ill th,c Iter, but I; ^his is 2^1 'they, m they I eat the imB: Be up two 'i:;^k ont ire^ture,^ IS, i^ has wU'd by \^ Nigjit ■^y^ges h fpent^ e !rts it; (Jown. lavages, lei" Qar- the much 72.!"rS!':i,"/£i».!'»»B..*»i » ^ s?i; wsis. ;s e£ III ! fh,, :^ • u J "leir Tail, making fuch a Noife No ice 'ti'Th'*-'' S;^'" '"'?' "Dd that is to Se tf«|„eranftt™?^Vl'fe— ^1 of Hard Fat and Sinlws, which eives W ,hl Strength to H,ake fogre^t a Koil' o^ t"e Wa by the wa> it 'makrA fliAr*»rf in the ( ^91 ) tU Water, under thdr Huts, that they may not be bblig'd to go farther for ir. The Sivages alfo catch Otters, Wild Cats, Wolves, Martins, l^oxcs, and fcveral other Cre- atures, to Trade with their Skins, but this is done wirh Eafe in the Winter taking them in Gins •, tho' fometimes they (hoot Otters, when they have Plenty of Powder and Shot, which they commonly have in Exchange for their Furs, with Ibme Tobacco. I will non fpeak of the Cufloms of the Sa- vages, wherein perhaps I may not be too ftrift- ly regular, but deliver them as they cccurr'd to my Obfervation. I begin with their Marri- Mmuafs dges, will proceed to their Children, and fo through all the Actions 6f their Lives. When a Young Man has a liking to a Maid, he goes to her Father, and iaysf / woM wUlitj^ty be ad* mimd into youf Family^ for they qfe" no Com- pliments i the Anfwer he receives is, that he muft fpeak to her Mother, and generally if he is a good Hunter the Courtlhip is foon over. However fometimes it cofts the Lover many a weary Step to gaiA his Mifirefs, for he is o- i blig'd to maintain the whole Family during a certain Time, and if the Maid be very deferving he muft Purchafe her with Prefcnts. There is not much Ceremony at the Marriage, the Fa- ther and Mother fay to their Daughter, FoZ/ow that Toung Man^ he u your Husband ^ and all is over. 1 hey go away into the Woods together ; fome Days after they return and invite all the Neighbours, who Fealfe together and are very Merry. The Father commends his Son-in-law, and recounts the Exploits of his Forefathers, and ^11 the Company Applauds his Choice. ' the \j ^ vvnea ( 39^ ) When the Lovers arc not too remote, the Marriage is Celebrated in the Face of the Church, and I faw many who vcre Marry'd before, after the Savage Manner, come to renew the Matrimo- nial Bonds in the Church. As foon as a Woman believes Die is with Child, fhe muft acquaint her Husband, who ne- ver has to do with her again till Ihc is Dcli- vcr'd ; but this is not generally obferv'd by all. When the Wife is near being Delivered, fhe leaves the Hut and goes away into the Wood, «t fome Diftance from it, with another Wom?»n to afllft her, and the Bufiners is foon over. The Woman Delivered gives her Afllftant the Knife which cut the Navel String, and that is all her Keward. The new born Babe is immediately waih'(J, whether it be in Winter or Summer. The firft Nourifhment it takes is the Oil of fome Fifh, or Malted Tallow of fome Beaft, the In- fant is made to fwallow it, and after, it has no- thing but the Mother's Milk, till it is big e- nough to feed like other Children. It's Mantles are^Fox, Goofe, l>wan, or Buftards Skins, and un- der it's Pofteriors they lay a Parcel of Mof5, that it may not fpoil thofe Sne Ornaments. The Cradle is a fort of flat Box, with a Lid, or Cover, with two Hooks at the Lower End of the Bottom Board, and a fmall Piece of Wood at the Upper End, fticking out three, or four Fingers to fallen a Leather Thong to, by which thcy^carry it, and in it the Infant h made faft, with only the Head out. The Mother carries it thus wherefoever fhe goes, and they are al- ways Back to Back: When fhe will unload her ielf, Ihe never lays it along, but fets it {landing upright againft any thing that is convenient for the Purpofe, or elfe hangs it up on any yhing that can bear, it. If a Son is born there is >tc, the Church, e, after atrimo* is with vho ne- ts Deli- by all. 'd, Ihe Wood, Wom?»n it. The e Knife t all her :diatel/ ummer. cf fome the In- has no- big e- Mantles and un« f Mofs, aments* Lid, or End of • Wood or four y which dc faft, carries are al- oad her landing veniept on any n there is 1 ( 297 ) i« great Rejoycing ^ but if it happens to be t Daughter they are rather difpleas^d. When a- ny Savage pafling by goes into the Hut and feeing the New-born Infant, takes it up and makes much of him, the Parents make that Per- lon a Prefent in Retnrn, and if the Child hap- pens to Pifs on the Party that holds him, as it otten falls out, tor there is always a Hole ia the Skins he is wrajpp'd in for that Purpofe, they wake another Prefent for Satisfadion. When the Child cuts the firfb Tooth, they make a great Feaft, and cxercife their own Teeth for Joy, that the Infant will foon be a- i>*e to ufe his own. This (hows how fond they are of thc'r Children, when born, but they are not fo kind to thenj in the Womb, for if the Mother proves with Child again whill the for- mer Infant is -fucking, fhe takes a Potion to make her Mifcarry, alledging that fhe is not a- Mifc^rri. Die to afford Nourifliment to Two at once, nor ages fro- to carry them about in the Woods, and therc^ ^ur'd. fore fhe thinks it reafonable to deltroy the one, in Order to fave the other. Again, the firfl Time the Son kills any Game, there is another Entertainment, for the whole Feiflings, Family and all the Meighbouring Savages ; if ic happens at a Time when they are abroad in the Woods, they wait for their Return, and ^Iry their Meat to preferve it; At thefe Feafts a very peculiar Ceremony is obferv'd, the Young Hunter and his Parents do not talle one Bit, of the Game he has kill'd ^ but look upon it as Honourable to diftribute it among all the Com- pany, tho' it be never fo fmall. ^efides they take Care always to put it lafl: into the Kettle; for they cat no roaft Meat, but all boil'd. They perfedly cram themfelves, without any other Intcrmiinon, than whilit they fhout and fine in hoi^our, , "»* ( 298 ) Honour of the Young Hunter. All he kills; whillt very Young, is given away to others^ to fhow his Dexterity and Courage j but he is not fo tree when Marriageable. The Hopes of attaining to fome Command, encourages every Man to excel in Hunting, that Trefer- being the way to Preferment •, for there is no ment If Inheritance or Birth Right i only Merit raifes Merit, every Man. When once a Man has attained that High Poll, he can never be put out of it, unlefs it be for fome heinous Offence. The Ho- nour of that Dignity is not great, for he is on- ly the firft among about an Hundred of poor Wretches, more or lefs, according to the Quar- ter he lives in ; yet they pay him Rcfped either in Peace or War, and obey his Orders as good Subjeds do their Kings. I have {Q(;n one of thofe Chiefs of the Savages come to the Fort of St. John's River, to receive the Prefents made him by France. His Name was Sa^aine. Fort St. That Fort is only fodded, having four Bafti-' John. ons, with fix Pieces of Cannon on each of them ^ however during the laft War, it was defended againft the Eftgiifh by an Hundred Men. That ^fffOHwt c/ Chief I have mention'd, was Grandfon to a Sa- * '^* vage, who had been made a Gentleman by King Henry the Eighth of France, for having expell'd the Engliflj Savages out of his Dominions. There was nothing, either in his Mien or Garb, to diflinguifli him by, from the Reft of his Com- pany, he was of a Middle Stature, and all his Merit m.uft be in his Courage or his Senfe. As foon as he came into the Fort, I obferv'd, that ; A .. after fome Compliments he made the Officers, which Idid not underi?:and, he fate down, with- out much Ceremony, but looking very grave, thofe who attended him, being about Twenty or Thirty ilaading in Order about the Room. That That w what af Fort a Savages me in t ment co Brother for fuch, anfwer'c he was c and to ^ I mentic Prime Ft fome W ly at th( vage To where h faid abov forts of turn for fortunate me and t Then bacco. Pi which tl fell to it. and gave with a n fame Peri he had dc they all 1: Time toe Brandy. the Ente fifted of I gether in he the fw Dainty. & kills; erSj to is not imand, g» that ! is no : raifcs ttain'd C of it, heHo- ; ison- )f poor ! Quar- t either IS good one of le Fort :s made r Bafti- fthem; sfended That :oa Sa- >y King sxpell'd There arb, to s Com- i all his fc. As 'd, that Officers, n, with- grave, rwenty Room. That ( 299 ) That was the firft Honour I faw paid him, but what afforded the Speftators belonging to the Fort a pleafant Scene was, to fee one of the Sarages part from the reft and come to falute me in moft profound Manner, all his Compli- ment confifting in the Repetition of the Word Brother about Twenty Times. I knew him not for fuch, unlefs in JESVS CHRIST^ and only anfwer'd, by bowing as he did \ but perceiv'd he was one of thofe I had treated at Chiboueton^ and to whom I had given Powder and Shot, as I mention'd there. The Wife of one of the Prime French Officers, a very Witty and Hand- fome Woman, came up to him. Laughing hearti- ly at the Adventure, and ask'd him in the Sa- vage Tongue, which fhe fpeaks as well as French^ where he had fecn me. He anfwer'd, what I faid above, and added. That he had carry'd all forts of wild Foul for me to Chihoueton, in Re- turn for my Civility to him, but prov'd fo un- fortunate that I was gone. This the Lady told me and the Savage return'd to his Place. Then they gave all the Savage Company To-^i^ Enter.. bacco. Pipes and Brandy to refrefli them; ^Lt^^irimenu which they feem'd well pleas'd and prefently fell to it. One of them fill'd and lighted a Pipe and gave it to Sagaino^ who foon puff'd it out with a mighty Smoke, then return'd it to the fame Perfon to fill again, and fuck'd it out as he had done before. As foon as he had begun they all lighted their Pipes, and from Time to Time took Care to wafti their Throats with Brandy. This was only a Preparative, whilft the Entertainment was got ready, which con- fifted of Peafe, Prunes and Flower, all boil'd to- gether in trefli Water without Salt, that it might be the Tweeter, and was to them the grcateft I>aiiity. Ail the Dilieience between them and Swine 1 1 9 ' ij ( 300 ) Swine in the way of eating that Pottage wasj that they laded it up to their Mouths with their Hands, for they are as greedy of it as thofe Cre- atures, only by way of Precedence the Chief be- gun firft. They made no long ftay there j for the Chevalier de ViUebon^ Governor of Accadia^ dy'd that fame i^ight, and they being concern'd at it, went away immediately, after having receiv'd their Prefents, which are generally Fire Locks* resftiriB ^^ ^^^^ ^'^ *^® Entertainments the Savages Among f^niske among themfelves \ perhaps fome will savttges, hardly believe that a Dog is their greateffc Dainty. If they are to treat one of their Chiefs the poor Dog is fure to dye, for that is the mofl: Honourable Meat they can fet before them, and whitn beft exprefles their Refped. Nor does the poor Creature efcape, when they enter- tain any particular Friend, and it is not the worft they have that is kill'd, but that which is moll valuable for Hunting. Nothing is fpar'd, when they make a Feafti but their Joy is often mix'd with Weeping \ fome old doating Savage Woman, in the midlt of the Rejoycing calls to Mind, that Twenty, or Thirty Years before Ihe had a Son kill'd, then fome one of the Guefts^ taking Compaflion on her Misfortune promifcs her Revenge, and never gives over till he has kill'd one of that Nation, which committed the Faft, he brings her the Head, and flie eats her Belly full of it. The reft of the Company ne« ver ftir till they have devour'a all the Meat, and for Drink they think of none but fair Wa- ter. ivomsn. '^^^ Women generally drefs the Meat for their Husbands and do not eat with them, but with their Children, giving each his Portion, they tliey hav go away frdm the that (tay felves tel Fiihing, Subject o to fuppl Drunk w moft eno The V\ tions, as fometime When tl Wrong, make a S up their i will not whole O Mock Sk were in "i * they are Conceit tl prefently Fortune-t be in a 1 Their 1 follows, of the \A fcarce ma pointed t his Body makiiig fu any but t foaming fa tlU there to aafwei ge was; ith their lofe Crc- )hief bc- crcj for Accadia^ oncern'd having ally Fire Savages me will greateifc ir Chiefs It is the re them, \. Nor ;y enter- not the It which is fpar'd, f is often g Savage ; calls to s before e GueftSi promifcs II he has litted the eats her ?any ne« lie Meat, fair Wa* i^eat for hem, but Portion, WJUon < . VV HVi» they ( ?oi ) they have been at Feaft and are quite falJ, the/ go away together to fing and dance far enough frdm the Hut, that they may not dillurb thofe that (tay in it. Then the Men left by them- felves tell what Feats they have per*brm'd in Filhing, Hunting, or War, which are the whx)le Subjea of their Difcourfe. It has been forbid to fupply them with Brandy, becaufe, when Drunk with it, they were wont to commit the moft enormous Crimes. The War is fometimes between different Na- ^'^*'^* tions, as the EngUfn and the Vremh Savages and fometimes among thofe of the fame N'ation. When the Chiefs think they have receiv'd any Wrong, they call their People together, and make a Speech to encourage them, then lifting up their Axes the Queflion is put, whether they will not all agree to take them in Hand •, the whole Company confents, and they make a Mock Skirmifli among themfelves, as if they were .in Earneft. They do not always flay till they are infulted by others, for upon the leaft Conceit that a War is likely to break out, they prefently have Kecourfe to their Conjurers, or Fortune-tellers for Information, that they may be in a Readinefs to receive their Enemies. Their Manner of confulting the Devil, is as follows. They withdraw into fomc thick Part of the Wood into which the Sun Beams can ^''''^""''^ fcarce make their Way, there the Savage ap- pointed to be the Soothfayer turns and winds his Body into th- moft extravagant Poftures, making fuch monftrous Grimaces as might fright any but the Devil, gutting out his Tongue and foaming hidcoufly, which he never gives over till there is a Signal, that the Devil is ready t© anfW'Cr; the whole Wood quakes and cracks J .1)1 au.. ( ^03 ) afid all the Company hears the Voice and gives entire Credit to it, I never went to fee any of this, and could Icarce believe it, as not much regarding their Super- ftitions^ however I will mention an Adventure that happen'd whilft 1 was in the Country, and which convinc'd me of the certainty of the Soothfaying in an extraordinary Manner. A Gentleman inhabiting that Savage Coun- stnnge t^y \^^fX 3 Brother at Sea, who happening to ifivtf»r«re jjg j^^g abfent^ he fufpefted him tobecaftaway, . and to be out of his Doubt he refolv'd to con- fult the Oracle of thofe Soothfayers, or Con- jurers. There was no Difficulty in performing it, for there were enough ready to oblige him in that particular ^ but being himfelf prefent, the, Devil fignify'd, that he could not return an Anfwer, becaufe that Pcrfon had been Bap- t'z'd i he withdrew, aftd then the Devil de- clar'd he fliould fee his Brother alive^ within three Days, which fell out accordingly. To go on with the Supefftitions of the Sa- Worjhi^, vages, they formerly worfliipp'd the Sun, whom they call Niehekaminovy and which in their Lan- gnage fignifies, the Greateft, they rcturn'd him Thanks for the Good he did them and intreated the Devil, whom they call Mendon tp do them no Harnli They had Magicians, whom, they honour'd and refpetlted^ giving them at their Fcafts, the belt Bits of the Filh or Fkft they had to cat. Tbefe crafty Magicians abu$'d their Credulity j forbidding thofe Morfels as deftru- aivc, that they mighk feed on tbem.themfelves, faying tbey were of ufc for their Art, and the others bad fo little Senfc as to believe them. When one. of them dyM> they us'd to put into his Gtave, a living Dcg, att Ax, a Fir$ Lock, IndUn Whfatj a Pipe, Tobacco, a Rettle, Pow- dcr, der, Sh was goi all thai Milfiow Folly Piece o out ^n( ^nd Bei would and CQ£ nor wi they wi Buitafd fancying would ^ tfeeth. If a I ft^fX XXY{ Hftt^ he arod is J h^r^wtll iiciftiil pe^jr wl flieJpapj ^^. WPIJ was no tliU,Op ^Imtfh, their ii Con4itP givei^ei; Minrii t( and ^^s J her- Let ^ Savages coq3Lme(] nd gives lid fcarce r Super- dventure itry, and of the er. ;e Coun- selling to aft away, I to Con- or Con- r forming blige him ' prefcnt, )t return }een Bap- Devil de- e^ within r-, , , if the Sa- un,whom :heir Lan- irn'd him intreated > do them 10 jn they I ap jLhcir ?klh tliey )u$'d their as deftru- i^emfelves, t, and the eve them- ) put into ?ire Lock, ttle, Pow- der, ( ?o3 ) der, Shot, a Canoe and a Blanket, believing ht was going a long Voyage and flood in Need of all thofe NeccfTaries for his Subfiftanee •, but our Miljioners have made them all fenlible of the Folly of fuch a Notion. They flill retain one Piece of Superllition, which is that they pull out ^nd throw away the Eyes of Filh, Birds ^nd Beafts, alledging, that if they did not, they would be fecn by the reft of the fame Kind» and cpnfequently could never come near them» nor will they ever burn the Bones. Befidc* they will never iinge the Feet of Ducks, Geefe, Buftards, Swans^ or any other Water Foul, as fancying that the others which are ftill alive would never be able to ftand upon the Sand^ ^4,: conlequenily they fhould kild but few o]^ hm If a Maid that hasher Courfes happens ta i{idhuJoM ftepover a Batchelor, as they live in the fame ^or/ow5. i^fir, he conceits he is Difabled of. all his Limbs, and is fo fully coavinc'd. of his Weaknefs, thaft h^f;,wi;ll not attempt tp move one ftep j hut lies, itill till the imaginary Courfe of tie Diften^^ ^y, wb^b is of the fame Nature, is over. Shaulc^ Ihe happen to touch bis Fire Lock a,t; tlut Time, he; ;W9W coinclude it Inchanted.,, and, that there was no killing anything with it ever after, aod tbis,.Opi(HOU is fOr ftromgly rooted, in them^ tlmt they are lelj,;, afraid of the woiili' Spels ^'V their inc^aqters. .When a WqijilaUjis. in th^t Con4itipn, ftie ravift go out of virh^ way,, an4 givei^er Husband isiatic^j> teft he ijiqiijd ha¥je;.4 Min^tP touch Ji^rf, ,withouX ^^lijjf^v^ija^ oi iif'^ and^^s Ipng as i(:, Jaft^The cjoe?' WVcpOie x^ Let ^s leave ;the foolifli Super-ifiiioni of the Savages. to procee(J tp one of theicbeftandmoS coqimendabk QnaUtii

s, which Is their Hofpita- /<"#'<«% I'ttv "'■■it C J04 ) lity, for they fupport one another to the nf- moit of their Power ^ if any one has Provifion, he never fails to Ihare it with thofe who have none and are in want. A Savage will rather itarve than eat a Teal alone, when he has kiird it, tho' it be to fave his Life j but will carry it to the Hut, where he knows others are in want as well as himfelf, and give every one his Ihare. When one of them goes to vifit another, he ' /I?, s receives the Vifit, does not inquire into the B /?ziefs that brings him, but the firft thing is to fet Meat before him, and after that they talk of their Bufinefs, if they have any, and the Reafon they give for it is, that if they ftiould firft talk of their Affairs, as foon as that were over he would be gone. When feveral of thttti are Hunting together, he who happens to kill a Beaft, contenting himfelf with the Honour, gives it up to his Companions, who dividing of it among themfelvcs, gencroufly return him the bcft Part. It is wonderful to fee the Boldnefs and Cowardife of thofe People at the fame Time, they never ftick to attack a Bear, that comes in their way as they are Hunting, and yet they Quake at the Sight of fo gentle a Creature as a Horfe, as I have my felf fecn more than once Sit Port RoyaL cUrhyto When an old decay'd Savage can no 16nger oii Men* ^0 a Hunting, and happens to lofe his Oiily Son m the Wars, he in his Grief and Defparr tails together his Friends, feafts, and gives them an Account of his Misfortune. They being liiov'd v»ith Compaflion, confider his Calamity and in- gagc to furnift him with another Son, which they foon endeavour to perfornj. They go away into the Country where that fo much lamented Son was kill'd, and look out for another Youth for the unhappy Father, who has loft his own W ItUU4 whorti t Man c( which i thus th his Son. Tho' Beafts, t Brother. Sifter, Modefty. heinous look up( con tin ua fo that t Refped 1 Degree. break \A ihould b pening tc Occafion fide, whi ftung it, them awi other Gn head, he; Condition When he Foulnefs Countenal felf. Wh cafion tha not to ma Company, It may have drai come to i faim. If 1 torn, and Whom they bring and he adopts him : the Vo«h<* Man confents to it and ineape^ hi,\,f 3 which is religioufly obferv'd S. tL.^'"''^ thuy^he Father i Co^,forted"l??^^';^f-"^^ Brother wi 1 never fneak a urr.^^ u e '' .. ^'"*"f Sifter, which mav he l«n- "^"^k '"^"''^ his ,*/".'/ MnHpft,, -ru i ' 5 '"" misbecome her Modefty. The Lyt given would be a rho^ heinous Offence, and the Parents would ever loolc upon him as an unworthy Brother l„I continually make him fenfible/f ther Air/erf fo that they are always very cautionT ,„a^M,- Refpea towards their Sifters ?cti!'„^ 5 '5'f Degree. Should a Brother ha^e Sl"i break Wind, he would rather bnVftlhan k ' flionld be heard. A Brother and Sifter ban penmg to be together in the Wood he hi^ Sl„«7^ * h P°'*«"0" were bare the Gnats ftung It, and heputt ng back his HanH tr,^v? ' them away'-defil'd it with his orfuJe ^L$ other GnatiT.at the feme Time bitKs'^?^ head, he elapp'd bis Hand to it i!f rhL ? 7 Condition, \^A left fome of, the Filth 'on'^^"c When he return'd to his Sifter, Ihe feeing".the" Foulnefs on h.s Forehead, was fo much olt of C°»ntw;l|«, that Ihe went and hang'd he' felf. When the Savages have any natu?^ Oc cafion that preres them, thiy are verVc-refoi not tomakeitlsnown, but w=kdraw frL S Company,, witholut fpeaking one Word. ' , It may fiU-out fometimes, when theSavaaii have dranlcvtoo mnc!. Brandy, that thev Jfii ^r l" {hKfol"'"''^"^' H.ufe Vnd a aim. It their Infolence is more than carf b« born, aad they, are well beaten,- they will r *- * turn / HAb'tt. turn ^re long and beg Pardon for ti^etr DfFende^ and ^? an Attoijiement bring a Prcieot of their J)elt ' Commodities ^ but if any o-n^ is I ruck, wlthowt having given a Provoej^tjon^ for thdy know when they are in the Wrong, he will certainly remember them. There is fcarce ^ny DifFereace between the Habit of the Men end WoriiEn; but th^t the Wpmi,n's hang ^own to their An* Wes, like Petticoats, and t^e jVlQn'i do not reacfc beyond their Knees, that fheir Legs riiay be the fireiir for Hunting. In Summer^ Tome VOung^ i^eii wear only a Shirt, ^nd thatt £o:ikort, tha^ peyare forc'd to make ufeof a Girdk, to which a Piece of 3tufi or 3kin is maide fallT to covet jtbofr Parts that oipghf to b^ 1h4.l That Shirt ro'ts'on thjeir ^ack* for onqe ipo,! yifenj they never J^e^i; pfT tin gU, W^ag?. ipth .Mcaand Wo* ipen are almop; , continually bareheaded \ thtx* ibmqtlmes they put on ^ little foct of a Skull Gp|), which cpvef s only ^heCfOwftof the Headi Sohie few wear Sho^s and S^ck>n$, but moft of them^ne. TheSjOfiikins ^rem^de^ofc. two Pieces of Cburfe Clotl^ 4ew^ together,; ^Q: that there ^re^lways two Flgps four Fingj^s broad be- yphd the Searp. -Tfjieir Shoes sji-Qiibadc of th« Skins of Sea >Vo)vfis, or S§*bilJike the^ i/rji/1 Brogues, witl^ijt l-|eels, 4i«l: ty'jSl on wlith Thongs, which run ^tjbjroHgh the. ^Qilarters likt :th€ itfing of a IPyr^?.;. jh^y <''«i&f\mafcc them of Etk^s Skins, w hid) thpy imbellefhiwlth G> l^ui'Sg and an^j^git^ of- PprifupiAe Qjiills Red "' ' and &'•«♦' and A/I lire to Both . than i bind ti fnjall of it, This ( Wome than ;tii and is daub i JBflena ^AOQC cow ai Aiir.vf in the tlic Spa to Fo<> jkcf ;€< eaillyk Sidns ^ as; wibil •Boys-laj greatef] {Tiler 4ipon a! felvcs.ii tiieFac jRefoiul endure ifor niy thofe b .'dk^ qn iniiMon, pQuadei ly ^ifti sf their i ruck) ibr thdy he will >pportu- , or his . 7 ea, thef f Bsafts, receir-e )y wrap iifereiace heir An» lot reack y be the : Ybung^ )rt, tha; to which to covet lat Shirt ^y never Mid Wo* bed i tha' f a Skun he Head; tmoft of nro Pieces at there road be." e of the the Jrijk on vlith ters lik^ ike them /fflth G> jittls Red and and WWte; but thofe they fell to fuch as de^ fire to, carry them to fliow in other Countries. Both Mcjo and Women«*paint thcjnfelvES more thaii any other People in the World. They l«nd their Hair v?ith Strings of black and white fnjall Gl^fs Beads, and make up a great, Knot of It, w^ich haijgs no lower than thcii': Ears. This Ocnament is com»6j» both to J^cn aiid Women, k i' the formei* / have no more £card than the latter* Their Hair never grow? Grsy^ and is hi ways, very (mpthnlfor they continually daub It with Greafe, or Fife Oil, which is their -Among .Ch^fe inany Eaggamuffios, there are cow and tbta fome B«aus; who afied.a ireftch ^^^^Pt Mr, Whcri: they iiaye kiil'd many Wild Eeafts ^''*'"-' in the Winter, tJ^ey'iTrade Ivith their Skins in tlw Sprjflg,ia*d CJoitb .thiomfekes from Head to Fo<>t; with what I()fkey7i^ceive in Exchancer i)utilftft*b©yrllooic like Gypfits; being of a Dar- ^cif-€omplfiXian ;tbaaithey, fo that they arc cafily kdtovyn ,^| .^ mi^na. ,. iHowev^r tihtf Uieir Skins ^e.ot an OlivtevCalour^ their Teeth are as: wibkeaScAlahaftervdnd Men' and Women. aoys^landiGitas ai^ fmokc Ti^bacco, wJiich is their greateft Delight. ' .iMn-L {Tiierd israQlJtherThittgi which they aifo look 4jpon as; aa Ornamertt, that is, marking them'- felvcs.on ftnierd Paifis ofttbe Body, artd even f/,„,,, ,„ the.,Face^ M i;t rcclBires much Haticrtc0 simlthcir bo iKclolutiOfly for it is iiong doing and they. ,ratjfl^^>^ afii endure mucb. . Some: frfncHMcn have, try;'d it, ^^ "• ifor myPacCjlhad hperJtbftCuriQfit.y tof beiir.ing thofe MasrfcM- They iwkk tbeiSkin iwitba^JSee- m1:3"^ '^^ fiil t»P tjjc iHofcs, fome with Ver- miHiWii, and .fome with Gun-poWd€f> both pounded i^r^ry finc,:.faitbat; each Golour i^ pjain- ly diftt%u!tfliable on ithe/Skin. and thus they V48 (jo8) make all forts of Figures, as Crofles, the Name of J ESVSy Flowers, or whatfocvcr clfe they think fit, and thofe Marks never wear out. I law; a Savage dye in the Hotd i>ieu at Puris^ who was mark'd after that Manner-, the Sur- geons fiead him and drefs'd his Skiii)^ and yet that rcmain'd in it. I was much furpriz'd to fee People, who underftand nothing ot Pain- ting jior Drawing, to make ihofe Figures fo Jiicely ; but they do Paint fome Things curioufly enough, on Skins they drefs, with the Juice of fome forts of Fruits. j jUivv *; speaUvg Their way of Writing, if we may fo- call it, tj H^i' is very fingular, for whereas fome Eaftern Na- tions will underftand one ianothei< by the Help of Flowers, thefe People exprefs ' thcmfclvcs by little Bits of Wood varioufly plac'd. Tiiey make Collars of thofe littJe Sticks, which iVrvseicithcr to declare War, or to projwfe Peace, aad they fend them to thofe Nations with whom they, are at Variance. When the Wai< is ended, I they bury the Ax ^in a Pit as deep as they can dig it, that it may not be found again, by which they would denote,' thajC Peace - is fo amiable and precious, that it ought never ^^ to be di- fturb'd. -. They do not computbi their Years by Days, Weeks, and Months, but by Nights^ or the me- morable Accidents that happen, and fometimes the Time flips avyay without being obferv'd by them; When they ar- in a Place wherethey find Plenty of Wild Beaft > Foul, they ftay as long as thofe laft \ and when they have almoftdeftroy'd them and thePot is not wey fuppfy'd/they remove to feek out more, being never' fonviTeUpleasM as when there is much to eat, and! they exprefs their Joy by Singing and Dancing. ^ /Thdir Vqices are very agreeablcwhen ' they wiS fiag well; :/,f:! ' - but Cooi Voices* but thei gant. ] Church Even- So f were fo Angels J not fee mix'd w Time mj vifh'd. ted into Tunes, a iioner wl in that < had a gr( Car^ to i it, and b they wer I defcrib' tion. The S; ther, in a Feet join another i and Grim Tone, wh is HoHen^ certain 1 which alft ftrument I Staff aboui Savages w Tree, c: Place they the fame 1 inwards fi that they are fitted ( ?09 ) but their Dancing of ali forts is very extrava- gant. I have heard them fcveral Times, in the Church of For," Royal, fing at High Mafs and EvenSongx the Women's Voices more efpecially were ^o fweet, that I faccy'd I was hearing the Angels praife God, and the more, for that I could not fee their Lips move. The Men's Voices mix'd with thofe of the Women from Time to Time made it fo wonderful fine, that I was ra- vilh'd. They fang all the Holy Hymns tranfla- ted into their Language to moft Harmonious Tunes, all which had been perform'd by a Mif- fioner who liv'd there a long Time, and dy'd in that Charitable Employment. The Savages had a great Lofs of him, for he took particular Car^ to inftrua: them, and they were fenfible of it, and bury'd him in the molt decent Manner they were able, being the fame whofe Tomb I defcrib'd, about the Beginning of this Rela- tion. The Savages dance clinging clofe to oneano* rming, ther, ma Ring, leaping gently with both their Feet join'd, and endeavouring to outdo one another in monftrous Motions of their Bodies and Grimaces. The Time is kept by a fort of Tone, which if it can be exprefs'd in Writing, is HoHen^ Hoven, Houtn, and they Hand ftill at certain Times to make moft hideous Cries, which allb put ^n End to tHe Dance. The In- ftrument is anfwerable to the reft, being a fmall Staff about a Foot long, with which one of the Savages who does not dance ftrikcs againft a Tree, or fomc other Thing, according to the Place they are in, finging through his Nofe at , the fame Time. Their Feef, which are turn'd inwards from their Cradle and long kept-fo, that they may go the better on their Rackets, are fitted for fujh Dancinj?. Thoft- Anrirk- X '^ Dancers panccrs came fcvera-l Times, upon rejoycing Days to give me that Divcrfion, but I am apt to believe they did it for the Sake of fome Brandy I Eavp them, Jor which they will go a great way. oddKj;orv jt jj very remarkable among thcfc. People, ''^^^- that if one of therp in his Way Tpyes the Pf iot of another's Foot on the Sno'«'j or on the fotc Earth he certainly knows by tne manner of the Heel and Toes, or by the whole Foot of what Nation he was who Uft that Impreffion. CcpdScenu -po fliow what excellent Nofes tHev have I will mention this Inftancc. A French Man had a little Brandy left ia the Bottom of n Boael, which he kept very choice till he cpijldget more, never drinking any without great need and but a very little at a Time. A Savage hapned to come into his Hoiife on theCoaft, almoft fpent and ready to faint with Toil and lor g falling, and begg'd of him one Dram of that Liquor he kept fo clofe. The French Man, who referv'd it for himfelf, made no Difficulty to fay he had ^lone. Have you none^ anf'ver'd the Savage? Why do you lye ? I fmell it, give me fame for it will ftvc my Lifty hecaufe I am quitei fpent, go '» ^^^^ and you will find it. This he faid pointing to a Place clofe by him, but he would have fmelt it cut at an Hundred Paces diftance. The French Man could no longer refufe to relieve hira \ but upon Condition he ihould promife not to tell his Companions j The Savage promis'd it, but aC the ame Time told him it was to no Purppfe, for it any of them came into his Houfe they would fmell it out as he had done. Notwithftanding the irregular Courfe of Life the Savages lead, they live to a great Age. They often pafsfrom the greatell Excefsof eat- ' * ■> _. ing ipg to c) tjsration Wher much T amoH^ t fweatm^ tjie^r ov\ with St< Bed of Bottom which t tlie fame qous nat fhort T cootiauc molt ad were alv a River came ou the Wai by foch c They biit natu 9II their Bark of mon tht Tprpent that we ] in every it. Ift they fei Boulfter; with the Limb, CI Tree, b( Shape of but to joycing apt to irandy I I great People, le Pfiat tli« foft [• of the Df what have I [Q had a L Bouel, et more, and but pned to R: fpent 5 falling, iquor he referv'd f he had Savage ? ^or it will 7 in there ing to a fmelt it le French im^ but tell his y but aC Purppfe, ufe they J of Life eat Age. fs of eat- ing ( ?ii^ J ipg to extreme Want and yet thatmakes noAr- tiBration in thirirStateof Health. ' ' Whea they are fpcnt ^nd difpirited with over- Wdi of much Toil,, which is the moft general Diftemper/wf*»"'«2' among them, they cure thcmfelvcs by much^ fwe^twg, i^hey make a Pit in the Grotfnd df tWr own length, both Sides; whereof they line with Stoics made alai^/ii red Hot, t^i^ by a Bed of tbq Br^iTches of the Firr TriJe'^ae 'ihe Bottom ^edjy eon it at their full Lengthy after which they afe ffov^r'd with mare karrthos of the fame Sor^, which heat,[and being of ab^tumi- i}pus nature make a thicli ^. ike, and thus in ^ ihort Time they are in a . rough Sw»\at, ancJ contiaue fa long as they thmk lit ^ buc' viliiat \ moll admir'd was, that thofe Sweating Pks were always made on the Bank of a Laktf of of ^ a River and that the Savages as fooA asi they ^ came out peeking Wet threw therafelvcs iatn . They often meet with Hurts, by Acdd^nts, ^p*^* f°* biit nature has provided a wonderful Remedy fior'*"^'""* ^11 their misfortunes of that Sort under the Bark of a Sort of Thorns, which are vi^f com- mon throughout all Jtccadia \\it\ng a Sdrt of Tprpentine much finer and! raofe balfemick tha*ri that we have from Venice, and it is to be found in every Placp, where there may beOccailon foi* it. If they happen to break an Arm, or a Leg, they i^Qt the Bone again exaftly and make great Boulfter* or Pads of Mofs, which th^y cq\qv for hroUn with theil' Tui'pentine aod lay about the? broken ^^""' Limb, covering all with fome Bark of the Birch Tree, becaufe it is pliable ^nd eafily takes t!he Shape of the Part ; nor do they omit fpjintering but to keep aU tight, they take long Pieces of Wm^X iPgrii and make a proper Bandage ; thm . ; . , X 4 ' " ' ^hey 'Jit i JI2 ) th^ lay the Patient conveniently on a Bed of Nols and this Method never fails. If fuch an Apcid^nt^happens to a Savage when he is alone, tic either fires his Piece fcveral Times, to call o- therstohis Afliftance, or if he has none makes a 3mQk?, which are the ufnal Signal* '^ong them; apd always anfwcr in Time of need. Th^y bpiWa Hutintbe Place where the Misfortune happens^ after this manner. They fet up Fifr' teen or Sixteen Stakes in a Circle, according to the intended Bignefs, two Foot from each other, and about two Fathom or two Fathom and a- Half in Height, the upper Ends meeting in a Point and bound together \ the whole is cover'd Vith JJJrr Tree Boughs and large Pieces of the Bark of the fame Tree, or of Birch and fome- ^jmes,with Skins, leaVing only a Hole at the Bpttjom, through which there is no going in or tout but on all four. A Pole goes a crofs the fiddle within, tour or five Foot from the Grounc^ fervingto hang the Pot over the Fire,' ^Wd always very fraall and in the Middle of Jhe Hut. The Patient's Companions go a Hunt- ing and take Care of him till he is aWe to go as JM«g(r^«lj9^^hey. .m: ^i •idem, I cannot omit to mention an Accident which i^uy feem incredi;'-*, but is infallibly true. A French Gentleman , jwrhj had ferv'd in the Army travelling from i^eUsc to Port Royal^ which is above a Month's Journey by Und, had the Mif- tortunetobreskhis Leg, fome Days after he fet out, ^ndjjad no' Company with him but a Dog. ConlicJ^Fing what to do in that deplorable Condi- tion, he remember'd he had Paper about him and a Pencil, with which he writ to bis Friends at ^ i^^*"^^?, giving them an Account of hisdifafter, flefcri))ing the Place where he lay, and praying fDCedv Relief. Thi« nor** h# tv'H ah^^m- hi'e nncr-c coiiy poor ran Ik feeiilg and t Savage diipat Were( fevera fting. them a Ctire. tliej^ w do till with t\ related ■ 'To 1 recovei are oft ilight C fet.' 1 afhore, reft tha they filj long Gi ing of of Tbb clofe th the Enc of the d Guf, dr Body 5 I next Tr fee that upall'tli them to When tt i»ii\i gut a Bed of fuch an I alone, call o- nakes a g them. They fortune up Fifi. ding to fiothei and ig in a cover'd \ of the I fome- at the g in or ofs the >m the le Fire, ddle of I Hunt- go as E: which ue. A ; Army rhich is he Mif- r hefet a Dog. Condi- lini and ;nds at lifafter, praying «> Tin or 'c Collar poor faithful Creature to leave him* xffe Voz ransack toQuebtc, where his Mafters Friends ini ? ?•'"* foon obfervM the Paper at his Collar, fll^^'X 'i ^^ "[^<2erftood what iad hapned H?il f IS^"" ?"f*^ '^^ ^°"°^ry were immediately difpatch d and the Dog with them, by whom thev wcreconduaed to his Matter, who had then lain mnT^ ?u^\^''''^'^ T ^« '^' M°^s a'^d fa!^ S' I . ^^l^"^^^ ^^^ ^'■^"g^t Provifions with them and immediately apply'd themfelves to the ^/J*^ ^u°' V^ ^"^^^' ^he Pot fet a boiling, 5^ ffiU'^fu^^n'''''^'* ^ hunting and fo continu'd to ^iA h^r^'^*?^°''^''P''^^'y^"^'d- He came r.iil^ ^^"'l^^^P^^y ^° ^^^^ %'^^> where he related what has been herefaid. ^ To return to the Savages they have an Art of ^^rPms ah recovering themfelves even from Death. Thev^'?^^''''''"^ fiiaK?!^^" ^^P^'!? ^ ^^ drowned, becaufe their ;;i*^7 flight Canoes made of Bark are fo fubjed tD over- ''"'' ^' ILJ f^^u ^'""^'^^ 6°^d fortune to get ?eft^h^.'"'^Vn P°fl5We Speed to take up the reft that are ftiU remaining in the Water- then they fUl the Panchof fomeBeaft, or i large and long Gut, which are their ufual VefTels for keep- ing of the Oyl made of any Filh, with the Smoke ot Tobacco, and having tfdup one End very .Zl^A^ P^K ^° ^^^ other a Tobacco Pipe, the End whereof they put into the Fundament of the drowned Perfon and pr«fling the aforefaid Rnl„ 7r ^^u ^T^^ }^'''<' ^^3t Pipe into his Body 5 then they hang him up by the Feet on the f^^Z?\ and generally have the Satisfadlion to ^n H i w1 ^^'^'J °' S^'^o^^' »"akes them caft up all the Water they have fwallow'd and brings ' wh^. I'k ' i'?''"' ?^' ^^ ^^^y ^o'* them to perceive When the Patient r. recover'd by his Motions They Fartng They have an infallible Remedy for the falling sni^ejs acknek A Soldier beldnging to the Fort oC St. John, had been tronbled with that Diftemper aboutfifte^noir twenty Years and it feiz'd him alttioft evcrv pay. A Savage Woman hapning ta be ther^ when he wa$ in his Fit, was fo mucE concerned to fee him foam at tlve Mouth and beat himfelf, that fhe went away into the Woods to feck ont a %cifick fhe vyras acquainted with for His Diftemper. $he brought twq. Dofes, eacph ©f them about the bignefs of a Bean, of a Sort Qjf Root grated, or powder'd, gave one of th^m Uh the Patient, when his Fit was pvcr,. and na^s^d, him to be cover'd warm. She ^vc Kotice,i t^t he would fweat very much and that he wooW, purge both upwards and do w awards, all wnichl accordingly hapned. The Governor of the Fort was acquainted, but took little nptice of it, fay- ing that the Cure would be ru|fcient to verify the Truth of that Woman's Proriiiires. The next Day iheorder'dhe Ihouldrelt, and going away herfelf direfted the other Dofe ftould be £4vea him the pay after and he woulcj be perred^ly cnj'd j he did what was enjbin'd, the Medecine KM the fame Efi^ft as the firft Time, and the Soldier never had another Fit of his Diftemper, I faw him my felf Imig after in perfed Health.. When Seven or Eight Days were pafs'd a^id it was obferv'd that his Fit did not return as ufual, the Governor was much cbncern'd', he had not karnt that excellent Compofition of fo rare ar Remedy. He caus'd ftrift Search to be made for the Woman, but fliec^qld never b^ hear'd Our cxperteft Juglers would be alhaai'd to, Ihow their Faces before ih^l Accftdians^ who ^Q. wbnderful in that. Way. i .will mention tyra m^Q juglers. iedpc'j xnach, and vc tbeioK ihttsA; ■y**% It W it, w^ The foiilows ^ee^flc ♦l^hpc wuh tl ftaoc^c fog Gla ifhftt d< Thus tl; on his them, \ Then tl ^ips, a Ground his Feet iound w to a ftr* his Eyej a^d at i PiHicult Glafs, V m .■<*m mi rocc(^Jud?e thjDcvUniuIlJia^ their jPTintand grftidit as fmall as San^, which the? WVfr f«i.ti»eu: IfaJids and then f^aflow evcfl Ufm^K this p«rh»ps may be perform'd with- W:^he Help erf* thepeviL Wheri the Flint thai fcdpcdito Powder IS gone down intp their Sto- mach, they take a fmair Stick, afovi't a Footlonji aod^ery fmooth, they fmoke and , i( r^ceivc^ al f K *ri^^' muttcringfome odd Words next they thtt^ff It down the. Throat, their CountenancS 5Wa^ asjf they were choaking, they rake a^ tofttmch the Stick, and after foipe odd Griraa- ^*J??*^T^^*?P with the FHaUt^the End of It, wMe and entire* - -/^^u:^^ ^% Therecond Trick,, npt inferior tothe'firft, is ai M ^^ey gather up the gwd, behind m Folds fo that itlsin a Heap, pi^ the^right Hand of the Head, at the Dl- .^„V^vr ^1'°^ five Foot, they pface a Lookr: ^Ifll^P 15^ ^^^?."^ ^^ %"g themfelves jjM doubtlefs they believe Bcafis are fb too;^ Thus the Otter is put into a Pofturc to move up- pnJiis Paws, which they always fave, fleaina wjjm, when they would have an entire Skin, |hen the Savage, who is to make the Skin waUu' skips, and dances, leaps over ic,, fells on tM ' Ground, rouls about, torments himfelf, claps ms li^cet and Hands, rifesand makes the Air re- found with his fli;ill Cries. He puts himfelf far. to a ftrange Ferment, fweats till it runs down, his Eyes look like Fire, he foams at, the Mofatff: ^d at lail the Skin walks, at M with much Difficulty, but by Degrees it moves on to the vials, where it ftoDs. \X/hpn fh#» QHn :- k.^t i^i-.iii is va.«v- mq ward Jhe Devil beats tke Suvages, Sivage Nttions* St. John*: Algcn' pins. ( ?I^ 1 iiard in moving, tbe Savage tells thcrSp^aa- tors, who are of another- Nation, that tJicir Spirit is ftronger than his. , , ,1. That wicked Spirit fometimes beats them ontrageoufly, fo that all the Marks and Conta- Sons may-be feert about their Bo B«id to ' this Relat?otf^i^ :.. a^uuJ Y^ic^a.. "^^v^'i ,.';; •. -"ft I ^ ij Le^ff^ 7^^-l^thter |aj»« ^^v^Si' '-^ altjl ' 'JO <:JVi:l& i'li:: ^^iit^I :ooH ■y<.i ,.:i!i;a JfU'^ , :•■; ;r i •f:''i / /irljo f' : ■•' : D;:>n.L:,i cJ I :^"»d [Ik y^rij fi^fii biic .vn::' ^'''-^ '" V} Thlok it my Daty: t^^elve yon aft ^^^ , accordiriig to youtiMte, of the ©teffingp viod has been pkasr'd to ifteftbvr on the JWipo^ We undertake from Time^t^-llme, t^^^^^^ of the ArchipeUgo. SyphaHti^ ^^fk, Them^Ojikm A„j,... - ¥Ur^Cf> t»o Vifii-pH laft Year. ^P0r9fj «»w fc»*«*^ jj_* J'^^Z". -"" The ircfir $^ with ■an A)ff- as tieiiil Bdd to p'^ib '10 Jlli "JlJCi !J V ILL •rill >:•■ ,0V if: A Curiam •-; D'jnfJi r\J ;. \''' Acooiinit, The «rCami^fs. It 1^ line Coumry 1^ the Fruit, apt- e^ #,^d .rnt^i±t''ll^.^?* g«atl>lenty. '^Lferfittt w Trees; woultd be i tarefulJy CHltivkttiJii ■ ^ 01 line Wmds. •flft)riW*iiri' «?.L^i *L 4„ ■ ^*^"':mffr/y. ML^^^'T^^'^'^^'^^^^ came to in^" ^W ^ art^ifra Iwg* toWU w*tPdt«' which tbevy wwea to dirtaJn' Sij^'^Thonftfia Souls ^?i>AS« £f i^'±'h"^'5 Bight «# taa»f >^/ , or Monks, is Dtd^ 'cated to St:tli^h and ft§nds o^ the Topvof a very High Hl)l. The Jhiri/i^ abandon d.bt^ caufe there is no Revenue ijow belongiojg to % In'c7reffftf the Bifliops ar,e taken fromamoUg ihe Religious i(?pn, and; if a.^Mar Prieft ftould happen to be chofe^he.iyroMld be; oblig d firft to take .upon , him the Habitof a Rchgio-s Man, and to make his Profeffion m. fomc IVJoAii* V -The Two JVlonaftepies dC Nubs are alfo-Irt ibe open Country,: There are Thirty of thofe Religious Women/in one qfiJihen?,; and Twcpty jn the others all of them vpi;,y Ancient andHve by their Work, they are Devout aijd VirtuQu^i and perhaps W9# >e mucjj^ mpre fp if Peoi^e from Abroad Ji^d not the Liberty i)f.goiflg,p ^nd out as they pleafe. However, thof [the fltrianefs ojf Eiiclpfure is not; obfery'd. in .thiar Monafteries, it 'Jba§ never been heard that .they fiavc received tW. leaft Infult, Unce their firft Foundation^ 'Ti|C Infidels there pay an extm>- brdinary Refpe^^ to the Places where Wproea live and it would be an heinous Crime an¥)ng them ( Indecei The difus'd tie Chi one ia ierv'd 1 Latin , Countr are onj they ai fo forn the Far whole { iion of of man] are novi We j that is^ Operatii pcrfeftl] pay a 1 his Lea Miniftry but no tons, f Befon Lord A for the chate oj nour us be defir Power. ..\ ( J2£ ) them to go into any ftch Pkcc to commit anr Indecency. ' J^t kitei ot tht LatiH Church are much '^""'^^"' difus d zt Syphsntw, and there arc only Two lit- tle Churches in which they are obfcrv'd ; the one in the CaftU Dedicated to St. Antony ^n^ r**^. ^ l^r i Vicar,, who is fubordinate to the Latm Bifliop of Milo, the other in the open Country, Dedicated to the Bleflcd Virgin. There arc only Six LMtin Families in the lOand, and they are come from other Parts. It was not fo formerly v the Latin Rites flourifh'd there ; the Family of Cozjuiim, which commanded the whole Country was Latin^ but fince the Inva- fion of the Turks^ their Dcfcendants, like thofe ox many other Families have. Degenerated, and arc now all Cretks. ' . We arriv'd at Syphanto On the 24th of July. Vl^n "j* '''^'^'* ^"^^^^ *°^ I, with the Sieut Defldndes, who was fent with us for Manual Operations in Surgery, which he underftands perfectly well. The firft thing we did was to pay a Viiit to the Gretk Bilhop, and to asic his l^eavc to Excercifc the Fundions of our Minillry. His Reception was at firft very Cold ; but no Man afterwards Was more Courteous tons. Before our Departure from Confiantinvpley the Lord Archbilhpp of Spiga^ Patriarchal Vicar for the^Hply Sec, throughout all the Patriar- chate of ConfiaminopU,^ bad been pleas'd to ho- nour us with a CommifTion as full as could be defir'd, wherein he granted us all his own Powrer. Y On ( ?2a ) Ott tiic othw Hand Monfieur de FetM^ the King of fr4fice\ Embaflador to the Pme bad ^if en us a Pafs for Security of our Perfons. That worthy Minlfter, Who is cqosiny Zealous for Religion and the Intereft of his Prince9 ' declar'd to all Perfons, as well TMrh as othersi that we were tinder his Ma)e(iy*i Protcdion, and accordingly were not only to be permit- ted to go and come, reftde, and depart at oor Pleafure *, but that he alfo deGr'd wc might e- very where receive fuch FaToar and AHlftance as wc (hould Hand in need of. We began our Miflion at the Town, having firft provided all that was Neceflary for our Subliftance, that we might not be Burdenfome 130 any Body. Thofe poor People to whom Trieflly the moffc gratuitous Fundions of the Church Funaions ajg fold, were charm'd to fee we fought no r«w» ^tereft^ and being thereby convinc'd, that our only End was to bring them into the Way of Salvation, thought they could never fufficiently exprefs their Gratitudt. Preaching every Day to a great Multitude of People^ chat flock'd together from feveral Parts of tht Ifland ; Catechiliag of the Children^ vifitiag the Sickj and Diftribnting of our Medecines gratis^ were our continual Employment for the SfKice of Three Weeks. The Bilhop came feveral Times to hear us, and obferving how much his Peo- ple were improved by onr Dilcourfes, coold not forbear ihcdding Tears of Joy, feveral Times commending us before the Audience and ex- horting us to proceed in inftru^iog the Flock committed to his Charge, '^ This This in the 1 ing and pie, anc to cont the ope fpent in them, ¥ frequent bad not ordinar) Abiifes. tfec Fru.i Haviii wc tho Neighbo Qur iat flock'd A Children i9ity ha t^i» tli$ fake m* Tokens from ih< tiiem wi t& vifit t tile aroo exprefs'd gave U3, whom w the llUn (fix War ^ This fenoodmg'd ui ta viflt all the ViiJ^ges in the Man<|, where K. 4-«rJba prcach; pie, aod fon^^imes the Church being top Httlc ••^*" to contain them, he was oblig'd to preach in the open Fields. The reft of the Pay was fpent in goii?g about to their Houfcs to inftrud them, without interrupting their Labour. The frequent p(e of the Sacraments which forae. bad not bce« at in Twenty Years and an extra- ordinary Reformation of Manners, and pf fevcral Abufes that were crept in among them* wera t*jc Fruits, 9f our Ubours. ) ^i^j, - Having tbi^s Ipent Two Months aiid i Jtalf;. we thought it lime to repair to the other Neighbouriijg Iflands. Upon the firit News of Qur iateadecj Departure thofe g, and Houfes to hear Con. effions, and to vifit the Poor and Sick, has cdify d us very much, and it is a great Comfort to us to behold how much good they have done here ; they have not only affifted us in our Spiritual, butalfo in our Corporal Keceffities j their Houfe has been always open to the Sick, to whom they have lovingly diftributwl excel- lent Remedies, without admitting^ of any o- thcr Recompence than that which God re- ferves for their extraordinary Charity •, fo that we look upoh them as the Fhyficiws of our Souls and ^dies, as our Fathers and as our Apoftlcs. The Praifes and Bleffings, which all our Ifland bellows on them, the Prayers and Tears' that attend them- from us, are a fufficient Teftimony of what they •have done for us. We wouid willingly have pcvail'd to keep them here*, but their Zeal, ivnich extends to all the World, will not permit it. Happy thofc People, who Iball, as * as w * hear * of Gc * give 1 . * as oa * In T< * this p * at Syf ! 1700. Here Three I Havii] oar Bar] JiillTwt 4ry, IDG 9greeabl< much h Corn or few Trc Cattle fc BetKsbr (priMtux yet they large cK cellent 3; the. Yeai M^%^ RfE (flands, > IQand h^j of (he U The 4 is in a 1 very ftee and in a \. ( ?25 ) ^ as wc liaTe done ice the good Example And * hear the Holy Diicourfes of thofr^ mach itfti^^itet^, ahd*'^j»«ri6iHice it iMkh a Tonic, v#tk'^h9s fom^thiing Of StUiaefs that |^ovokes '^^^Umter. ■'\':^^^ ^'•■•' ■ ■«'^f?:!'l^i ;;■ ' jprVitaif^^'^llti^fla^d is go^et'n'd in Spirk<«ls % a Vi- c?#vcr»- car of the Bifhop ot Syphanto, His Jurifeiiiaron cxtencjsovcr five or fix very poor ^nd ill ferv'd W?ilht2hufdfe '^b Leagues frote th(6 Town is the Monaftery of St. Michael- ItAihkeA'hf kn Hundred Cdoyers^ or Monks. When we vrent . '^ifi%%J'w«? fdfa/id^hdiie biit !*h^^ A1*7 C by a V a yetie$i During i^i^fti t Bidit ^ ittach Tone, fovokes ekU * . iy a Vi- iiaidtron 11 fcrv'd t Towfl ;d fe^^R e went bKM; the ^f mm aiidi l^e OtiBlB^n "d oHdir di eKdfe he^iie •' -^ t Dgbiieut Lodgirig I, ^likih i€^, tiiftt if Mat to and the ^oqrteous itter, eil- 5wn Ac- cercifb of During ( jn ) Duripg fhrce WeeHs we ftay'd at Serf^a^ we prc«ch'd twice a Day, the Rool pf a Ho«fe being our Pf Ipit, and thpfe good People thronE'd to hear ws, aixf fecni'd touch'd at our DttfepiirSs. We iH^ere o^ilia'd there, ijiore than it Spph^m to make all Things palpable, and to dfclivef them in the plaineft Terms. Otir EnploynieflC there w^s ds has been fgid at Syphamoiand with as good Sviccefs. mi.- From Serpho we went to ThermU, which iSThermia Twelve Leagues from tht Jther. That Ifland ;/li»i. has takei^ bis N*me 6:og pn the Bilhop of Tiir4, a /^w^p<||a^ The X#r#» Rites arc foUow'd only by Te^,/ofiTwc!fe PamiUes. i.laoj . Y 4 At At oiir Arrital in the Iflaad, wc Wfcnt to wait on the Ecclefiaftical Soperior, he is a Man of SenfCj whom his Perfonal Merit and his Weaich diftinguifh much above the other Griek f)rief(s. The moft confiderable Men of the Hand, who were then at his Houfe, were Wit- nefTes of the Kind Reception he gave, and oi the Kindnefs he exprefs'd for ns. We per- form'd the Fundions of our Miflion preachiag every Day to great Numbers of People, who came to bear the New Preachers. An Abbot very much Refpeded in the Ifland, \k1\o had quitted a Bilhoprick in the Morwa^ to be mere at Leafure to mind his own Soul, was the mplt conftant of our Hearers. That virtuous Pre- late foUow'd tts about every where ; he was Co Zcaidus as to preach himfelf, and in hij^ Sermons extpU'd us and our Miniftry. - After feveral Days fpent in Injftruaions, there were fo many Confeflions to hear, tbat we were not fufficient for them, the C)tn^^^ ^nd tl^ a^ut 1 *4he tli Wa^ 1 l^mgn ■^^lei Herbs, ^rds to ton nit ions 'the Irf very d ptilous, Kon it Town Ho»'i^s Slip ol forms' verv ; . 1 y it to is a nd his Griek i the ;Wit. and oi e pcr- laching iy who Abbot 10 had 5 mere le mplt IS Prc- was fo ;rmo4s S, there lat we lY and D> make n their hat on- Ir Con- in the Village, fmall Stream, ore the »i from . Such h, th^C k. We (fig ) , '•]^)fee,ii|ent but Eight Days in tliat Village; liftiift'iBrhich we returnM to the Jown, in Or- der to 'go orer to J^ndros'^fot We ffiO'uld ne^er ^aVfc ;got thither, had we delay'd 6uV Dcpar- tUt't ^ Anincriiflible.Tlironc of Pcoijle foUow'd *s tf^ite to out ,0ark. Before our;' Departure, ^Ibtnlri'd up all we haid recommenced to them^ 'durlhgthe Courfe of our MifEon^add left them, ;^mif -'lifeful Books to inculcate the latile, and fo %fWi'ted. ' '^^ '' -^ " _^^ei(|and fifAtdrosis Twenty Leagues from Andro* iletfh^. The Mohntains in jt are Very High, /a,„l ^nd the Vales no Icfs Delightful. "There are a^ut tj^em Abundance of Country Houfes and mc-t^^rdens, with cnrious Streams of Water, ;tlfhjch'lccep tj^^m continually Greed. There is ^ea^ penty of pedars, Orange, Ummon,Fig, . \P6tamhate, Jojub, and Mulberry Trees, molt ''^r Jhet^^ wonderful large, the Oil there is ^ikttiletit^ and there is great Store of CorOt Herbs, and all forts of Pulfe. ^';^Wthe Point of the mand, which looks to- cavri^ yhxdi Capodoro, a Pron^ontory in the Ifland of ivi^f. / * J^^^ofom is the Port of (74vri0, capacious enough. 1 to tfontain a Fleet. In that Harbour the fe- hitians caus'd their Navy to Winter during the lail War. The Country about the Port is very defcrt, nor is the whole Ifland very po- ptilous, conHdering it's Bignefs •, for they rec- Kon it contains but Five Thouiand Souls. The Town of jindros is reduc*d to an Hundred ^onifes, built on the North Side, on* a Slip of Land, which juts out into the Sea, and forms on it*s Two Sides Two little Bays, not very fafe, Qa the Point of that >Jeck of Land / ( 3io, ) Land arc the Rains of ^ sclent Caftle, bnilt after the Manner of the li^or^r^es of Oldjt^^ Within m ^^11$ of the ^To^rn, is a &if piir Ji^^Cyif^f ytiikh there is oothlng wai^tin§ hut.thi? ^oofv the 'Wiiujows of h;.,f^e adora'd ^W^ cqrious pdlilji'4 MarMe. TJw Walls arj^pii cyery where Carj'd with itfc Arms and 1C^^^ :df the J^rds , of tbe Hdi4e' of iSflt an HuHdred Tears, fii Want* of p^opk to cuiuya.te the Ifk^iri fmo fwagcj. j^^g mul^ply'd, and hcen fi^ divl^,-,#jp :,^j(irp yinag^ 'f^hrec Leagues dlft^t ^i^ei^ ,^ ^fv The f^^.l^ei^ of the t%ind ace defcsoded LSI ^^f ^?y^>^^^ i^^ ^f tf 1^, . 4nd )that i iM«a%4 'Altf^/tt^v'who Raiiiieiii^lbii^e; Tia^ j^hfcji^ jfropi ^DlDCSBfei Abfence. ;i4 >1^^ Ifldlldi abcititw£i|jtitf^^Bolklr«d PMilif^^^f :^ot^«Se^^^^ and that the faid Noble Man gives a great Re- bpttiii^imi to^tlfb MaiiRicw^ ^Mk ^ftil^ncy m aAll^Uigta^nft^Antf' t^dU«7\A&>?«l>^wJMfl^ *lft"ihcp'«IOaittii o'jiii i fUiaatfM c 'f-nr j oj -liiVi lijo Vj /.jU 3rl3 i;nfi i;?7£riD.iUo ::r ;\ Mr.r- r i oimtF£irtiiei!s> iof^^dr<» hiad^oteitrly?4 ilfm; ^tottie^ Tdwuv^tha- little Oftardi^ De4tt«^ 3i(b &v^^^#»jir^wlikh'diey ihaVt^tetti ttblig'd :t> quit; Thofe FoMtti molt bf ttem bocn ^m^ ^ea^ to the- (?»^i^ • 5f»;gwiV,''^erf obliged «P obferve very fttMt keafaress^ und wicre. lysble very often to fuffer great Injaftice. The Re- vclrend Fathers CapMcim had alfo a fmall Houfe for |lcfe«^ftlbn, whipb'tfiey teire-jl^eral ....« ^rr.%cd i^d - retofit^d to t agaio. ' : One t>f ir Bitiitd^^ a dK)|fc Zeaions^and Virtuoos For- i^'latt^'coniec tiiifb^,^^iui we had. tfae ,^tfeftfiimi'c1l»Unibrace. l^imi^ The People] of ^^^i^y^ htfi^i King Jvififd oc^ fee us fettled fa ;iheif 1fad#i*iiif our. |?6f arty and the Seimty /iof EiiaBjRdtett ^Labomrf rsLirlH inot permit o^ to ^thiflk' ttf it f ^iit wfe wiB rftpply that I>^ttft ^W this ibrt «if freoDMtr Bxlciir4ipns, whicb .^1- ^wayt d6 tnfKtk^gppdf and ar^i4^ phargeito^oy Man. ,♦ J %j iiiiuAi ti • , '^ We '^wMt^fi^cdbrdtiig ito?oar Gbftooii asi^on ^'ik^ ar#iv>^ atiibitfnl^i,:! IqjjWBttJou tbd' GrftI [%id)(^^ WhOii^ectii^iis ia arOtoftobl^n^Maii- ^^eViinil^^ftlcvrwaids.was j^ >i« in tie Sterciftf^dfffllicdPianiftioiiM il^e?beg^n tdifrfach «Wthe ^^GAvpriBsipalnCHluQebesf iaocittt :t|i« Be- ^j|i!tiling^ofiilf<4MM^ wbicb'ii ,i 'nrime of ^Vsfting "^Mlk&g the^&y^jb. - nriie PifltppiWin alwaft tiiere ^km^ni lihe cftrf^and ouriJ^bciii^ , were very file- eieefifolii|lRBfof«y«g£th€f»ec^ > ,i 4 .j.i^ -v>i-*.r>- b ?:)yfo ■,.,,^-,.:jo51 bill t.:.; ""-t !>nn Y^l Haying fedSifd oar MiflSMI *ft-e.we depactod Arna Tililfofr j^rw^oi^AWtegcl qf; XhttuMmfih ^s^i W^t H^* ji|»rtheriveryr laleian^ miisA;ltirfdi bei^ x^igkl to climb a Mountain, Three lieagoes higb) carrying our Chappel and the Box of our Me- ^dedicines, ' laoili then TwoiTL^uies ;mor^ to i«[^i^ dovfb nbe) M^ntgiq^ialopg very •rpiigh <^Fath$ an K^ls^^r and Mj0i,j Brambles , Jkt leagth wefTfdch^d ithe Y*J^gfti ' and found oqr Jfelves amongiavferj poor Pfoplcj extraardwary 'l|^Iio^a^t, liUt aoibiAg. Biqrhaions. . r/rfo "^ ■ •■.> 1.1.;.:! i^;j'7^ 'lirli/i ^- :' y;t:.v tbl t^( bd* til I dai^d ii tMir Sc we wo we defii niftring for tfae> Sick. 1 andrwe hecJT tb( us front Itisc ^re abai or Moni Uknd t that is ons, aik to knovf have a Natnre quirie a^ tentsi, a is reqkc not trov lars^ ibi the)r ha fow, ;if tive. an( is //done^ a fhame vThich w Fiace»a!f l^bfe next Day hkhj^j Sunddjf^ We » tcpair'd 't<> tht t^c chief Churciie;^ where a; gneae Nam* bd- bf Peo^e wal kfleiAbled, to whom we de* dit*d In the firftvPiac^^vthat the only Caie of tbfeir Sools had bioiglrt: us to hcic ViHggc, that, we woold be fio Burden to itheoii^ iind that^ we defir'd nothtngtbift thete Prayers for admi^ « niftring the Sac.anieDt8,1for our laftrut^ons, andr i for the J Medcndnes Lwe fhoiild admifii(ler to tbf Sick. This Declaration gain'd their Affedions,- andrwe had full Employment for^Fo^r Pays tOt he«jr their OonfelfionsV the People* flockiiag t<^ us from aU Parts, l /a' .1.:!: ^;;. ; ; ,.[ It IS deplorable ttxfeehovr tliofe poor People^ .re abandonV by their Clergy, i The CaUwrs^ jpuritct or Monks of Twoi Mbnafteries thdre are in thei^^^^ Mknd repair that' Vailef but oUce a Year/'^^** that is on MaundM^ Thiitfday^ to iitdx Confeffi* ons, and fome c^ them are >fo. Ignorant as not to know the very Fbiiih of iAbfolution. They^ have a certain Tsack nthey > follow, as to the Nature of the grpflbr Sios*, then they re- quirie a certain Sum. of Money of the Pent* tents., '^nd when that is paid the Confeffioa is reqkon'd to be i pferfed. Sometimes they do not trouble themfel ves to deiceod) 'to Partictt^ lars^ but are fattsfy^d with askiugi whetheti they have not liiTAjas they did ^ thi? Yea? be-, foro, Jf the Pcnitenic:anfwfir in the Affirnw*s ti»e. and prefente thfil Money [agreed on, all is/donef and he iSi order'd fo im^e Rooni fot another. Wer endeiiyoar'd |o redrefs hc\k a ihameful Abu£e,-and feveral tothers like it, vThich wquld beltoo t^ious toraentipn in this PldCC*;aiid they promts'd t^ fb\km th« I3Afc&ioa& we^g^ve them fo? a 0mi^ ftfdn Ufe^ The Bilhdpi^ bping inforitfd,^^ that rte had madd aa Abridgraoat oi the chicif^ At^ tides of miii^ ^od €h^ipaM Duties, alkNi ill of us, la O^r tO' cauft it t6> W read every |mi« d^ in all tlfe fbriOies, afoorrMais. Thelprune iVten of the ilfllind, wboti they c^IH utfrtib/^ were fa IfeBfiit^ bodied the lirft Sermon w« made upoi^ th^lr l^xtoftisiimg that they immedi* ately apply'd tbemTeWei to do Right to the People, ft ha»< been a>'4pf^ial Bleffing of Gdd^ that we found Means to gain the Affediona of ttiiofe People, for the Grttks both Clergy and Laity 'I ... .:i I Uity 1 wards I where doiie in £cieot Conft4ftt$ ikna Soi Thoulan at Smttm have hek above *! much Re 'ihdi \t V.J // 4 K'(i;34r? F-aity have generally a natiiral Aver/ion to^ wards the Latins^ and yet we were crerv where weUrcccivU Much gppd might bo done ki^thofe Countries, if there wer?« M. i j ficicflt Naraber of f^reachers. The Miflion of .c^cSh « Conft^unofU contains above an Hu^idred Tlioa- ' '^'* '^ find Souls, there arc as many at 5«ifrw4, Tei Thouland at NaxIs, and above Eight Thoiifand wfrr^'^'' withont reckoning the Miflions li.,.;;. nave hete mentiord, where we had to dowith-* o^ above Twelve Thoafind Perfoijs. I am with '^ much RcfpcdL . "^"** ••J *-'u..u ;. .. •■' Z^.".' iiy ■J a // fbtdient Servdnt »/i' iWr litrj^ James kavierportier^ MlffiMer •/ thif Society, if Jbsuj: • <■■ ;■-: "'^ i/mr : '■h to"'. ■■' '.••'—■. ' ' ■ ■ S^lliBISg3S§iB^^ffi^^fSS^^ 1 * '>UVl iHuil f-li.:.ji •il>U Sbme BOOKS ktel/ . Printed for RoBBut .Gqslimg. 1. nnHE ii w» of Honour : Or^ i Compendtt 0mm. With the Author*sLife, adorn'd with Sculptures from the Dcfignsot the famous TaUdi'u Made Engh^ it^ tie QrigifaalV"'". by Capt. M4rr/tf Bhderi, The Second Edition improv'd; wifli Not. ■ ' ■ Civil War itaries, of or OpptM. ignsor the >c* Mirth the moft compar*(^ o», Dion, CiVilWa^ THE INDEX. ABraham and Brgma, t^e fame. Pag, i o. Accadia, only Three Towns there. 281. Much Cold there, Liejitor to drink. Women fruit' /«^' 282. Bay yen Land, Dikes to drain Marjhes. 283. Sowing, Hunting, and Seals. 284. I>iet and Partridges. 285. H4resy Cattle^ Htrbs and R*ots, 2%€. Swine., Beef, Mutton, 267. Foul, Bufiards, Fijh. "288. jidventwes, flrange. 302, and 312, Adultery among the Moxos* 237' Jges of the World, the Firfl and Second, 1 1 5 • The Third and Fonrth, Ti5 jilarm, a jalfe one, 8p, Albanefe Villages, 330. Algonquins Indians^ 315. Alphabet of China. 181. Altar of a New Church in China. 201. Amazons. 252. Anapolis, in Accadia. 280. Andros 7hc I N D E X. Andros IJlandj 3^9. jintidote ttgatnfi Toiforit 57* A pa no Caftra, 334- Arack, ^ . 122. Archamdiren rtfembles Job, his Tryalsy 19- His Rewards^ 20. jirithmatich <»/ Indians, 1 1 6. Ark of Noah, 8. Arma l^ilUge 33^* jirts and frudts taught the Indians, 245. A^rologer cut in Pieces^ 165. Jfironomy of the Indians, I inland 123. Athe^s^none in India j i3»' Athenian Families^ 330. B A iZ%z ( Father) ameng the Moxos, 241 - His Deaths I 53« Barbarous An fwer^ 61. Bitrh fir ous People^ 243. Barbarous Prn^icCr. ^ J^^* Bat tei^ Account of ^-^^i^^f 5 8 . ^aures Indians,'-; : :• 252. Their Martial Dtfcipline, ibid. 'J})eir Kindnefs to Strangers, . -Perfidiovfnefij they kill a Mtffionery 253. Bayefeune Port, 279. ^e^rj, 290. , Beajh on the Alountains of Peru, 232. BeaHs in Accadia, 307. Beef in Accadia, . 287. Belle /yl#, 160. Bevers, Account of them, 291 . Huts built by them, 192, Trees cut and carry* d, and Dams made by them^ 293. Bipjop o/Syp.ianto, 319' Bleeding in India, 87. Bones broken, how cu d in Accadia, 311. Books of Brama, of the Cre- ationt of Morality, Mnd of Sacrifices, 1 7* Of the Law in India, 1 24. Bourbon River, 262. Frozen over, 270. Brachmans,4 Fraud of theirs 39. Difcover^d, 41 . Again, 43 • Their Purification and Ma* lice, !I3. Their fuferfiitious F/auds, Pride, Obftinacy, and Ig' norance, 114. More of them J 111. Bra ma the fame as Abra- . ham, ' 10. Was the Indian Law-giver. \6. An Indian God, ic8. Burials qf the M OXOS, 237. Bufiards in Accadia, a88. Butter, how made in India. '150. Button'^ fiuttoi Cariboi Carnati Cattie . 1 fhe ft . Jn A Ceremon Gtrevtm .8.1 Certjfic, , fiom ) Charity . Slaves In oth Tohv charms 1 Cheat in Chief it? i ' , him.iy Children Chinefes, them/el others, lleirl Their 307. 2^7' 250. 291. 292. , and them^ 319. 87. d in 311. y Gri- nd of 17. ; >24« 262. 270. ■theirs 39. 41. 43. d Ma" !I3. ¥audsj ind Jg^ 1 14. 122. Abra- 10. 'giver* 16. 108. , 237- 288. India. The I Nn> E XT Buttony ^4»*ycrs, Greek A/«&ii| v.-flax.iieou-fou City in Oil- ■ ^ iV '.--.-vwS liijnA <^-i^oas Tefeis. 15^, Caribous Beafts^s%s\\ r'-ajfld Carj3atc-^///tiWf^ ,«2i C«?//r . tiKSttcA kht Land df the MoxoSi '.-;•> 24tf- Ja Accadia. 285. Ceremony^ ri^icuHdus, 45 1 Cerevicttiiiamgtfgthe Mdxo^ Certjfiir,.f^ 1 1'» : "RtVQurofM^f" ' Caarity of Ijidups r^wwifx /» ofV ReffcBs. . J51& To. Brachmansi ui . 11 tl 0/Apc«dians^»O/«f i^rtfc CWiw/ «/V ;» Curej, "57. Cifeff*^ w Buher, 1,501 C/>/>/ «:• Accadia, w^rtf#«»r ef ' , him. 29a Children marry^d. nj,, Chinefes, rJbfir G>w y»B>4r • of the New Church m ^ China, 2^2*. ChoUck, and if V Caw, i t^a^ _r^ ^'*»fdy aga,yffi it^ 8.5, ChR'-hnen ^xfak^ ma j?i- T^f 5f4 opens for him*- 1 ^, Chrifiianity commended fyi y^he EraperorandBrince of •cChina, 'j^ \\ f . \ t ^ ■ 20S. ^^'V">D' ^/ l»'^ Miracles in. ofndia, ^' i.^o. eijirdK m GHif^^dercrih^d^ ■"'^' ,'■■'■ 'J i'P9. 0ihrek baU'O amoni . th^ • Moxos, 245. '^^jiKother, ,i'>hM\ 'V i-V 247:* Church Cove^iimei^MT\^t* Q^mifts in India. rP^fako Gri-f «;»r//ii,;^i/^^^,j^j,|^^ ,2. Cirioman»/W^i«^/; v' .;i48. C»/ici i» India »MCfc». : it i . a/w^f,. at Hudfon's Bay. - ---J. •.:--.■ ■. ,ii.V.X73i Cobra Capelo Serpent. ^6. Cold Sharp h the Country of ''^the Uoxm: \^ , 232. Coioran ^/t/erli jv g^[ Confejfton, • it *m\ v > \ 23.* Conjurers and their Cures a- mong the Moxos. 234, and 238. Conjuring in Accadia. 30 1 . C(/» ijptracy The INV E X' Conf^lrjtey ngkhift m MifftO' »er, .'.t..u) ^.i<\ ^\\ 112. Confiancy of Cowottts^ ^4. ConfielUttons «/ J ndia. 1 1 9« ' Omvirts mTttdiay their Po^> .^r. *•. -N,. ThtirCoaJijimy^ . ^4- 4^ortf 0/ rJbe.ti. 130, and C&kn in India^ > vVr * I2i»> Cofercmonijius M:aris, 247 Counampaty Miffion^ tfo. CoHtiter^feiiiig '•/ If sing ppi fefid, iO. Coutrry vffrtftd ty Maho-J metans, 103. €omtry in. Chk^ m»'^r . , f Bcy 220 • Cfjotion of Man^ ,n • . ;i: V v 83- . ' : of other. Mijhi^^rur. i% i i . Fpr all.HMHsiib Miudhi Qt^ams of Chinefe Ladies^ ,0/ .r.v>i;v^>?. olscf" ■) I il'84. • They j}^ 4k only the ^eCU'* . s , l(/ .-A '} ' '> ;!pc. 141.^ DavisV JJlandi^ -vi rt a6ir Danphin ^jvtfr, ' 281.' Deafnefs and it's Cure, 151.' Decency thferv'd by Accadi- ans, 305. Deferts inCUui^ « , 177* Devils deliver Oraetes in India, 28. .ExpeU^d by Chtiftians, 48. . B^at the / zsid\zvi%^ 316. Dexnrity tf/4» Indian Prima ^'^inijier^ j6o. *}i%e tofiapA Rih/er^ 98. Dihs made by Sever f^ 293. Difiitvirers . of Thefts^ 33. Difiovery of tht Brachmans . frtsnd^ ..^ - ■ vi •.-••;4i, Dijtemper^ a {Grange one in I ndia, and it's (Sir^^ ^s^ Diftempers and Cures w In- dia, 151. Divination by Dreams^ 35. Drink of the Maxos, 234. Drowned Perfons how roco' ver^d, 313. Ducking, 278. Dying in India, 149. E • L I E Tbc IN D E X idians, Shspsn cbQou, a5K 281.' ■p. 151. \ccadi' 305. 177* 28. ans, 43. s, 315. n Prim^ 60, ^> 98. rf, 293- ^ 33. ichmans 41. f one in w, 83. ?i r» In- wjj 35- 234. r9C0' 313. 278. 149. E E^r^^w Wart of India, 149. Ediffes firetcld by Brach- mans, 1 1 7. Elks J 290. im^vor of China Hn4eteh''d - ' 155. < J^^ Bounty^ 157. BisEldtHSon, 155. ' C7>w« tfvw * extraordinnry Good- tie fs, 210. Bis great €harity^ lit, ETn^oyments of the MOJfOs, * • •23<^. Englifh Settlemem at Hud- fonV 54y, 255. 7^e> take the French Fort^ 258. Entertainment in Accadia, £(qaino3 Indi^as^ 318. Eueharilf^ fomething like it^ --•^^■- J 22. EvHuchy the firff belonging to the Prince of China, 203. ExLTo^egini defttis^d wfndia, i^^ff// ^y Indians, 105. <-3 Exceffive Cold at Kud{bn'$ ^>i 274. ExcemmHmjBa^ioTi^amongjffea' ihens, 145., Exhalations^ • ■— - * « 1 07, Exffofttion of Ifldidrt iVbf/>»j concerning God and other Deities^ a^ Fjible about ConfefoH\ F/f//i»f Sicknefs cur^dj 3 1 4. Famine among the French ^ HudfonV J?^, 255. ^a. Feafting in Accadia, 297, f '- ifwrf 300. Rr^ 0/ Chinefe Ladies very ' //»4/?, :. i84* Figures on the Bodies and /w« 0/ Accadians, 307, Fire perpffHMl, 15, Fifhvery delicate^ 279. F^^ «> Accadia, 288. ■Flood of Noah and his Arky"^ >" ' ^":' '-^ 8, Fhvsers^ odd EfeB of feme in India, ' 87. Food of the Moxds, 234. FoiU in Accadia, 288. Fraud of \ndhnPrieftSf 39. Difcover*d, 41. Another^ 43. French The 1 N P E X. French 4trNHudfon'/ Bayi 258. ^ In Accadia irjgtniom. i&/\. - //lAcc^dia,^ y.' 29s>' C"^ Adrayans Indians^ 248, J Gavrip?«rf, 329. Gemils in India /^^^f Euro- peans, ■ 105. Geography, Chinefes ignorant of it J 1 80. Gin-fcng, CWnefe PUnt, it*s Vtrtms, 2i\» Sndden Oferation, wonder' fulEffeBs^ 215. Vs'd infieiad of Tea^ in ,|., what Quantity j how boil% 217. Where it grows j Chinefes not tp gather it ^ 2 1 8. , IVorth it* s Weight iff Silr , .yVer, manner of gathering ih 2I5<. v; Hardfbips endured by the Gatherers *, ri;* jRoof j the Stent J . 220. Branches^ Leaves, Frnit, 221. iCs Age how known, 22:?^. Flower, other Rmarks ', Fa- ble ofit^ ■ " 2^3, Number of Branches ««- certain; Height, Root^ Name ; grows not in Chi- . , ' na, and, how cur* d, 2.1^ Cold and Silver Mines i^ the Jfland o/ ^phanto^ 319. Goldjmiths in India, 1481. Government of the Mogoly ,••.^! 104. . None among //;e ■ Moxos, -■• .:;\i .233. Fftablijh^d among th^m, .u»iK>[ . 245. Greek Monks, 3,26. Grindfl ones in \nd\a, 149. Grummet whipped for a Wind^ . - 278. Guardian (^ods Eight, 109. Gums in the Coftntry of the ; Moxos, 234. H.: .. H4^»> •/ Accadians,' Hsemorrhagia, or Bleeding at the I^ofey.^C, and it^s /. Curet:^^\J,Yi^,(^' •■• -151. Ha/ls by a Chinefe Churchy [fH^rtdierafts i» Incjia e?ccel' lent, I4^i, .Hi^res in Accadia, 285. Head Ach and iis Cure, -^ ' ■■ ■■' \5^ Herbs >hantOi^ 319. 148. Mogoly 104. Moxos, ^33- > 149. 278. , 109. of the 134« adians,' 30($. Heeding md it^s 151. Churchy 199. , e^cel' I4t 285. The I N D E X I jy^r^/ »V India, 122. In Accadia, 28^. Hereditary Prince of China fufpeBedf 155. Reft or' d^ 16 j. Uifiory of Indky 123. Honefly of Convert Sf 229 Hofpitality of Accadiaiis, ^ . . 3.C3. Houfehold' Idols, 6H. Hudfon difcovers the Bay of his Name^ 255, Ni^ives of the Country (ji^ - fcrib'd^ 272. T/i/e Climate^ 273. ExceJJive Cold there ^ 2 74, W^7^ ^^«/, 275. Hunting among the Savages in Accadia, 239. Huts made by Sever s^ 292. I I BervilIe(Monfieur de) his Brother kill' d^ . 265. Ice^ Mountains of it ^ 260. Idolatry of Indians, a Cor- ruption cf the Scripture^ 2. Tr^^eeedsfranf^ Poetry^ 107 Idc'smov*dby Devils^ -44I ^efcrib^d, 188 jQimtsfint tofarvey China, 22«>* Jewilh Cuftoms among juidi- sns, "14. Z Ignorance of Indians as to Bleedings 87. Of Brachmans, ^14. Of Chiiiefesfw Geography^ Of Gr^QkPrieffs^ 333. Immortality of the Soul ksf liev*dky (he. Moxos, 240. Incarnation^ how rfprefemcd by Indians,^; . ,^ ,22. Indians no j4theiHs\ thir Notions of (jod and other I)eitieSy Formerly worfupp^d 0?>^ God J 4. Their Notions of t'je Tri' nity, , 21. Not to be difputcd TPith\ but hov? man/tg'dj $6. Opprefs d by Mahometans, 103. Their Miferable Conditi- on^ y 104. JllloTpd their DiflinEiion of Ra^es^ I05» Hate Europjans, ibidn Their gs>od Qualifies y lc6. Theii- Religion , 107. The Learned gram One God, 109. 122. Their Qua! hit; 244. Taught tr i>Lve/i*l Nations of them, 271,; Tnfamy of taking another Miifi's ii'lfe^ . ^4. 4 Inhabitants i The INDEX. hh/thitdftts cf Syphanto, 319. Jnfcrifttotts in China, 1 74. Jn a Chincfe Houfe, 190. Jnfalence of Indian Pemtfttts^ 92. Ittflance of Chriftians cau- fing Orachi toceafe^ j^6, uinbther^ 47. Of a Manjlarine in Chi- na, 182. Joymng of torn Muflin^ jtnd broken Clafs^ &C. 1 48. Irrefolute Indians, 130. Ifaac, an Indian Paraliel of his Sacrifice^ II. Jfands divided among Mif- ftoners^ 157. fuglevs in Accadia, 3 1 4. Jiiflice how adminifer d in India, 105. K King in India J^etjy J, 108. KnovoUdge -of Accadians, 310. KricKs Indians^ 27 r. LaTcehoumi refemhUs Mi- riam, 18. ZangHage of China^ l8f. LaCm Kites f ^ii. Latitudf how taken in Tltdia^ Law givfn on a Mountain^ 17. Law among B-ohlhrSy 1 27. Lex TalionJs, ibid^, Lientcrh, Loo fenefsy 151, Lights appearing pnthe Sea^ made by the Ship's Wjiy in theWat^r^ 1 92. Lin'.e }» India, 150. Love of Children among In- dians, 49. MAhometans opprefs the Indians, ^d are Enemies to Chriftians, 103. Malice of Brachmans, 1 11 . Mandarines in China hard to te Converted^ 181. Marian Iflands^ 155. Marriages of the Moxos, 237i In Accadia, 295. Means us'd for Converting of T2ople^ 228. Medicines growipg in th CoMntry of the Moxos, 235. Megrim and it*s Cure^ 151. Mines (Lcs) Town in Acca- dia, 282. >^ ^Himsters The I N P E X. trntairiy 17. 127. he Sea^ WJty in 192. 150. mg In- 49. 181. Moxos^ ^y^. 295. ning of 22S. in th Moxos, 235. , 15s. Acca- 282, 'i Minifterr in Chitia /w>^V Mlnifters of the MotOS, 2^8. Mfcamsges proeur^d by Wo- men in Accadia, 297 Miferits «/ Indians, IO4. Mijfion anew one^ 61, //* tb Penfflfulii<>f liidk, 102. That Hf Qf nate, ihid, Miffioners^ their Employments It One Jfaultedf 1 35. Moderation of the Talavay, agreat Maninlndih* 95. Moguls hi^ Giivtrnment J io^, Monafleries in SyphantOjjaO ^t Androsj 331. Moon worfhiffdy \6l, MoYalityy Indian Book of tt^ - 17. Morals ^*f'^23I. Their Coni;erfiof^j''^'y 242. Taught Arts 4nd Trades^ fftilt^tvdi (ff C/i^d^^^'^^'M^ Mur dtr committtd^ ' ^5^. Mufick in Chfiia, 201; Mujlitt extreme fine, 148. Muttofi in Accadia, 287. , . N NAngan G'/y,. /» China, '-•♦'• , 177. Nations i» India, 122 OfSaVa^eSy ^|jtemptible Race of Indians, 88 Tarijhes in Sy^hantOy 319 Fariridgesj 2S5 Peking City in China, 227 ftnlttms in I ndia Cheat Sy g i Their Jfnjolencey . 9:^ Tenticcj afirange ane^ 1 49 Ferfecutionsy 6Sy and 66 Perffeiiive not known by the ChinefeSy 200 Hyftck in India, 123 Not vs^d among the Moxos, 2.34 fhyficiam of \vi!^\2iy 150 Pien, a Scepevy 203 Tteafure Houfe of the Emperor ef China, 227 foetry Caufe ef Idolatry .^ 1 07 Polygamy among the Moxos, 237 V9puUui Country in, China, 228 fort Royaly now Anapplis in Acradia, 280 Tower of Converts in India, $0 Preferment by Merit in Ac- cadia, 29S Pretended Converty 71 Pride and Obfiinacy o/Brach- liians, 114 Priefily FunlHom fold, 322 Pried s or others toffefs'd. io (T Priefis of the MoxoS, 238 Prince of Catalour, relieved by a Miffionety 92 Prince 0/ China, hisGoodnefs^ . 2Q5 Provifion for Poor in China, PHnifhment for Defrauding the King in India, 93 Of Officers inCtiiTiZy 168 Pnrgey '.^h/^ 153 PHrification of Brachmans, •Q. • ■:itm'5lp\- ^alities 0/ Indians jfw//, RAinbowSy , isf6 Hains in India, 98 Raman like Sampfbn, 20 Refieaious. ufeful to qltrifii^ anityy ,^^<>^^t,*.\ 3 Religion <^f India, '167 Of the Moxos, 2^7 Of the Natives of Hiidfon'/ Religious Solemnity among the MoxoSv " * 239 RemarJkofa Converty 79 Remedy agairfi a firange JDi- fitmfer in India, calld Mordcchim, 83 Jt^ainfi the Cholicky 85 Refemblance of Man with God ^oots how expoHJtdedy ! Ifittjtiifit/iticm "Mi^^l^Mp Ei^. •^ »IL t 238 relieved 92 China, ^v 213 tMudin^ 93 I,. 168 ;hmans, iq6, r' . 20 i'?A\t3 *\3 . ^517 .udfonV 90/;^ tht 239 ^/ 79 f C4Ud 83 1. 85 7i$hGod ^*«/«Indiaj )i,jjAV> 12^ ^#xfer«« China /w, 4rt4 dftn^ ■ gtrpHs^ i ^^178 r <>r«;er/ A^.«rc 'Very.^nat^ ib. , Two tf//?er/ ?i?f*,. . . '225 jobber Sy a Race of them, ' ' I2yandi6 Cannot be fubdu'd by the Roof of 4 Q!H?^V:in qfiloa, ,•-' ,'200 ^flflfj i» Accadiii, ; ,285 Scruple made about Worlk by a Jefuit liic to prove fa- •J -tv SAcrifice of a S^ep^ '14 Refembles the P,4f:kal '^Lamb, . ,0 ^^:'y:^S Sacrificfj^a Boohpftheni^ 1 7 Safeguards of Idolaters againfi Devils\ ,;. . -^ ,i8 >>2»^ W^<«ferj E X .t 'i'iu'n.^. TAlavay,4» Indian ^rr^f Man his Moderation^ ^^ Tan jaour, the King of^ 40 Tapacurcs Indians^ 251 1'htfts difeoverU hf the De^ thief how fcitnd amhng tHa^ fiifpeaed, 34 •fhetmh J/land, -^^^ Bil Tomh jich and Cure^ 1 52 7^jr» ^ u ^,.v^^ Wj4rs of the MoXOS, i ^6 />/Accadia, 301 Walking like Baptifm^ 22 Watermen 4>f India, I49 Way^ a nevf one a crofs the Mountains of Peru, 251 Ways to gain Barbarians.^ 243 Weaverfinladiaj 148 Widowhood comemftibU^ 1 1 1 Wife jor the Godsy » '^«'> ibid Wild Foul At Hudfon*> Bay^ Wild Notions of the Stats, 1 18 Witfdi viotem in ln6h\ -^i Wives bought and foldy W&men in Accadia,* ' W^ks of fhe Deifilr, ' Worjhip of AccMatn, Writing iftlndn^ :i«>"^^' 171 360 302 .*X TEdan,f^ff Indian tam^ Vermin in the Country of the M0XOS5 " 232 Vertigo and it*s Curey i 5 1 \ -T :'U »«>j z Odiaciy how dividfdby rfce Indians, 118 Books HT" '5? odd-) 3o8 'aheCan- I, tSi !f4/rf.! 83 jcos, i3«^ • 2^ 149 I, 251 afJSy 243 \ V- 148 bUy III .,v« ibid 275 frfj'/, ! 1 8 riru 171 360 302 Ift3 118 Books BtH)^sPri9p;idJ^^^ Robert Gofling:. 1 rgpiH^ HiftoriC8li'A«lqtiitie« »f MiertfhrAfi'm, with JL tbc origttml «f /Cottnttes, jHlwtriK^s or Wapen- t4ke5,^orottghp,.Carpocai:kins».T)Oitus, Pariibcs, Miiia-' gcs, and ttartllcls^ ,.Th« iottDdalkWi. and .origia of M0na(fctries, Gtei«cticia,8iaJid A^v»w;f«as, Tythcs^ Re- aorks Jmpropditi^fijjv and V^ioaridgcs in GcawM^ ^^ fcatjingthofe of thlsiiGounty i« pidijcolar, as ilfit tfce if^y^r^l Manors, Cal!blk&ifcir.a8 it xoacerns this 3hire.aiidi4rhc TranflytioA tbeiedfjib LEwj/*y&^ JTo which 4re 44*cd the:£^^phl,.^i>d Mcrtonahde Infcriptions lis all the Parifhes, and iikwvifetbe cBlatwi of theXloat of ^m^ iOf the'fi^©ndcil^Ql)lemeiL|attd Gentlemen j Pro- prtetijr^,iiiifiheifa>me,QHiiiftrated *»:itbia large Mapof\thc Coontgc^u-ff profF(ea:iQf':a.?rfi^, .thq Jclnaography of St. ;^f*^ltt,^artd=iEftrc%,^«JldIma^l7i.SaIlpt^^e8 o£ the Prin- cipali Bdiiices airil, -aaoo^nt*^ by: Sir Henry .Chauwy^ Krtigbc^SfiDJEaataar/i^abf^FoiiopFicPiii/. 101 ^ AriJiExi^ofitionldf the Cceid, by. ||p/j« Lord Biihop of Omftety^The MathlEdifion^ KqvUM andGoiredod, JTo^ lioj;rrioe;i)ai». i/i^mo '.Jifjv j '■. , ■'•'if.-: ^^r : The Triumph of Gods Revenge againft the crying an4 etecrabie Sin^ of Wflfui and Premeditated Murther^ with bis Miraculous Difcoveries, and ft^yere^Punilhments thereof in thirty i;everal Tragical Hiftories, Digeftedk- to,% Books, committed in Divers Country's, bey ontl the Seas< Never jpublilhed or imprinted in any other Lat%uagej Hiftories which contuia great Variety of McijrnfMl and Memorable Aeuons-iiiitorical, Morai!, and^Bime, v?ry neceflary to reftiain.ffnd deter us fmm ''■'*'-'^ thac Books Printed for R. 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