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cause_n	woman_n	wound_n	wound_v	32	3	8.4597	4	false

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

order of the List and found out the Fellow by the want of his Sword He was immediately apprehended and brought to his trial We asked him What was the reason he was come into the field without his Sword To which he answered boldly He came without because he had none Had you never any in this Camp said I to him Yes Sir I had one Yesterday What have you done with it I lent it last night to one who was to go to Sea this morning for it was true that a Party of Maurice his men were gone early in the morning to some of the Islands Then we asked him What the mans name was he lent his Sword to I do not know his name said he although I lent him my Sword and did sometimes converse with him as I do indifferently with any one in this Camp where I know every one by his face although I am ignorant of the names of most men in the Company and I do think that it is the case of every man here as well as mine Then I asked him Whether he was a Seaman or a Passenger he lent his Sword to He was a Seaman and told me he had lost his own Sword when he borrowed mine and because he would not have it known that he had lost his Weapon he intreated me to let him have mine upon his urgent occasian Then did we send for the Sword with which the fact had been committed and asked him Whether he knew that Sword He readily answered He might very well know it since he had wore it ever since I trained up all the men of the Camp into a Military Discipline whereof himself was one Sir saith he This is my Sword and the very same I lent last night to him that borrowed it of me How came this Sword to be found in the bodies of the two wounded persons if your hands did not thrust it through them And please you General it doth not follow that I thrust it into their bodies because it is my Sword he that had it of me might use it to commit that cruelty instead of using his own thereby to shake off all suspition from himself and lay the guilt on me I confess that there are many apparent Arguments against my Innocency but I am sure there is no evident proof and I hope you will never find any After this strict examination finding we could not convince this Fellow till Maurices Crew were come from Sea we deferred his trial until another time But it fell out by fortune that the men of the Boat being upon one of the Sandy Islands where they turn Tortoises and some of them having a mind to swim went into the Sea to wash and cool themselves in that Element and as some were more forward than others a great Shark snapped the forwardest of the Company who being warned by that dreadful example got out of the water with all the hast possible The Story of this fatal accident as likewise the description of the person who had been devoured came to the knowledge of the Prisoner we had examined before we could bring him to a second trial When he was tried again he cunningly catching hold on the opportunity said confidently That he had lent his Sword to him who was devoured of whose Face and Person he made a very exact description in our presence So that we could not do any good nor bring any evident proof against him We all admired his confidence and subtilty and hearing that the wounded persons were like to be well again we were contented to keep him in bonds till they were both out of danger The woman was soonest well and here you may admire the humour of some of that Sex As soon as she was cured she came to the young man who had wounded her and expressed the greatest love to him that can be imagined under pretence that she had been the cause of all his trouble But I think the true reason was that she looked upon this Fellow as a man well in his body having never been wounded and who consequently was far more vigorous than her other Gallant who had lately received a large wound through the body This accident occasioned new Laws and new Customs We considered that as long as we had Women among us they would be the occasion of trouble and mischief if we did not betimes take some good course and allow our men the liberty of using them sometimes in an orderly manner But we had but seventy four women and above three hundred men and therefore could not give every man a Wife We consulted long upon a Method and at last pitched upon this We allowed the principal Officers each of them one woman wholly for himself with the priviledge of chusing according to his rank The rest we distributed into several divisions and ordered it so that every man who was not past fifty years of Age might have his woman-bedfellow every fifth night we laid aside the old men and the four Wives that were going to their Husbands in Batavia and who professed to be very chaste and honest These kept together and lived a while very reserved but when they saw that all the other women lay freely every night with a man without incurring any blame and that the relief we expected from Batavia was long a coming they began to grow melancholy and to repent that they had chosen chastity for their share by which means they were deprived alone of those delights and pleasures which they saw all the other women take so freely and so plentifully They shewed their discontented minds by a hundred actions and they nor we were never quiet till we had distributed them among the rest and then they were satisfied Here we had a very great proof that multiplicity of men to one woman is no friend to Generation for few of these women who were common to five men proved with Child and on the contrary all those who lay but with one man presently got a great belly I think that is the natural reason why multiplicity of Husbands was never allowed in any Nation although Poligamy of Wives and Concubines was ever used and is still practised in most Countries Now the time was come that we were to set up the Signal we agreed upon with the eight men of the first Pinnace sent to Batavia I therefore commanded our men to chuse in the Forrest a tall and streight tree to set it up at the head of the Cape with a white Sail the largest we had which was done accordingly I commanded also a great fire to be made every night at the same place that the Ships sent to our relief might see it in the dark and take their aim by that We were in good hopes that the Pinnace was got to Batavia without any great difficulty considering the good weather we had had and that the General would send us relief with all the diligence possible But God it seems