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death_n	bear_v	life_n	sin_n	5,504	5	4.4990	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16286	A briefe description of the whole world Wherein is particularly described all the monarchies, empires and kingdomes of the same, with their academies. As also their severall titles and situations thereunto adioyning. Written by the most Reverend Father in God, George, late Arch-bishop of Canterbury.	Abbot, George, 1562-1633.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, lengraver.	1636 (1636)	STC 32; ESTC S115786	116,815	362

that they were the Sonnes of some God and not borne of mortall seed but sent downe from Heaven unto them and this conceit was the stronger in them because at the first in such conflicts as they had with them they could kill few or none of them the reason whereof was partly the Armour of the Spaniards and partly the want of Iron and Steele upon the Arrowes which the Americans did shoot but they were not very long of that opinion that they were immortall but reformed their errour both by seeing the dead corpes of some of the Christians and by trying an experiment upon some of them also for they tooke of them and put their heads under the water and held them till they were choaked by which they knew them to be of the same nature as other men * They admired and feared a Letter Among other points which did shew the great ignorance and unlettered stupidity of these Indians this was one that they could not conceive the force of writing of Letters in so much that when one Spaniard would send unto another being distant in place in India with any Provision and would write a Letter by him what the fellow had received from him The poore Indian would marvell how it should bee possible that hee to whom hee came should bee able to know all things which either himselfe brought or the sender directed And thereupon divers of them did thinke that there was some kinde of Spirit in the Paper and marvellously stood in feare of such a thing as a Letter was This Countrey yeeldeth great abundance of strange Herbes the like whereof are not to bee found in other parts of the World * Some very rare Beasts as also some very rare Beasts as one among the rest who by Peter Martyrs description hath some part like an Elephant some part like an Horse and divers other parts like divers other Beasts Nature having studied to expresse a great many severall Creatures in one There are also found at the Sea or within some Rivers * The Sea Crocodiles Crocodiles but not of that hugenesse as those that breed in Aegypt in the River Nilus whereof some are described by Plinie to bee at the least foure and twenty Cubits in length which argues the Crocodile to bee the greatest Creature in the World that comes of an Egge * Some rare stones There are also thereabouts some extraordinary Stones growing in the Land as above others the Bloud stones wherof there are great store but especially there is one thing of great beauty and worth that is the abundance of Pearles which are taken in Shell fishes and are of as great quantity as any that be in the Seas neere to the East Judies so that the true cause of the plenty of Pearle in Europe in this our age beyond that incomparably which hath beene in the dayes of our Fore-fathers is to be ascribed to the Discovery of these New-found Lands * Divers trees not else-where found There are also here divers trees which are not to bee found elsewhere and many Roots which serve for divers purposes * The abundance of Kine and Buls Among other things whereof there is great plenty in those Westerne parts is the abundance of Kine and Buls whereof they report that there is such store in Cuba and Hispaniola that there are killed downe divers thousands every yeare whereof the Spaniard maketh no other use but to take the Tallow or the Hide which serveth them in their shipping and for divers other purposes but the flesh of the most part of them they suffer for to putrifie as making little account of it partly because of the heate of the Countrey wherein they eat little flesh and partly because they have great store of Hennes and other more dainty meate whereupon together with fish they doe very much feed It may seeme a kind of miracle unto him who looketh no higher than the ordinary rules of Nature and doth not respect the extraordinary and unlimited power of God that whereas a great part of America doth lye in the Zona torrida in the selfe-same Climate with Aethiopia and the hottest parts of the East Jndies where the Inhabitants are not onely tawny as all bee in Aegypt and in Mauritania but also cole-blacke and very Negroes here there should bee no man whose colour is blacke except it bee those which are brought out of Africa but that the people should bee of a reasonable faire complexion which is to be ascribed onely unto Gods peculiar Will and not to that which some foolishly have imagined that the generative seed of those people should be white and that other of the Aethiopians blacke for that is untrue in as much as the Aethiopians case doth not differ from the quality of other men The Spaniards did find the people to be here most simple * The condition of the people of America without fraud giving them kinde entertainment according to their best manner exchanging for Knives and Glasses and such like toyes great abundance of Gold and Pearle It is certaine that by the very light of Nature and by the ordinary course of humane shape there were among this people very many good things as affabilitie in their kinde Hospitalitie towards strangers which had not offended them according to their ability and open and plaine behaviour * Their Religion yea and in some parts of the West Indies there was an opinion in grosse that the soule was immortall and that there was life after this life where beyond certaine Hils they know not where those which dyed in defence of their Countrey should after their departure from this life remaine in much blessednesse which opinion caused them to beare themselves very valiantly in their fights either striving to conquer their enemies or with very good contentment enduring death if it were their hap to be taken or slaine in as much as they promised themselves a better reward else-where * Tet many grieuous sins by them committed But withall as it could not choose but be so there were many other grievous sinnes amongst them as Adoration of Divels Sodomie Incest and all kinde of Adultery Ambition in very high measure a deadly hatred each to other which proceeded all from the Fountaine of ignorance wherewith Satan had blinded their eyes yet there were among them some which by a kinde of blinde Witch-craft had to evill purpose acquaintance and entercourse with foule spirits * Their Attire The manner of their Attire or beautifying themselves which divers of these people had severally in severall parts did seeme very strange unto them who came first into that Countrey For some of them did adorne themselves with the shels of Fishes some did weare Feathers about their heads some had whole Garments made of Feathers and those very curiously wrought and placed together of divers colours to which purpose they did most use the Feathers of Peacockes or