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

the Sands over night and keeping them secret obtain thereby the carrying of many thousands to behold the sight But 't is reported by a sober and credible Person who was an Eye-witness of the Wonder that he had touched divers of them and going so to do to the Head of a Child a Man of Caire cryed out to him Kali Kali ante Materasde that is to say hold hold you know not what you do a strange Fore-runner if true of the Resurrection of the whole Body CHAP. IV. BOTANTER in India BOTANTER in India is a Countrey very large of three Months Journey in Extent full of high Mountains one of which may be seen five days Journey off in which are said to dwell a sort of People with Ears of a span long or more whom those of the Valleys count as Apes In those Parts which are next to Bengab they are white and Gentiles in other places more inclining to an Olive colour their Garments they wear close to their Bodies so streight that one cannot see a pleat or wrinkle in them and those they never put off by Night or Day whilst they are able to hang on Nor do they wash at any time for fear of defiling so pure a Creature as the Water Content with one Wife and yet co-habit not with her after two or three Children when any of them die the South-sayers are to tell them what to do with the Body according to whose Directions first consulting his Books they burn bury or eat the dead Bodies of their Friends CHAP. V. NARSINGA in India IN the Country Narsinga in India the People are in Religion Gentiles worshipping one God as the Lord of all who is taught them by the Light of Nature that they joyn the Devil or their Pa-Gods in Commission with them whereto induced by the perswasion of their Beastly Bramines or Priests who suck there-out no small advantage Some Christians there are intermixed of the old Plantation especially in Maliapur and the Region of Choromandel but not so well Instructed in the Principles of their own Belief as to be able to convince or convert the Gentiles nor to disswade them from the use of some heathenish Customs though barborous and Inhumane and against all reason not used in any place but amongst the Indians Amongst which is reckoned for most Savage the forcing the poor Women to burn themselves with their Husbands Bodies the Womens kindred not the Husbands thrusting them on these hard conditions who reckon it a disgrace to their Family if She should refuse And because they will be sure not to have that Infamy stick upon them they have ordered that the Women who shall refuse must shave her Head and break her Jewels and not be suffered to eat drink or sleep or accompany with any body till her Death a life more miserable then the Flames which they seek to shun This makes them leap into the Fire with joy and greediness and to contend which shall be foremost She being thought to have been most loving during his life which is now most willing to accompany him in his Death CHAP. VI. QVILLACARE QVillacare is the head City of a peculiar Seigneury in India but held of the Kings of Traneanor as their next and immediate Lord sthough this and other Kings also are Feuditaries of the Throne of Narsinga and were that the worst Tenure by which they held it might be tollerable But there is a matter of worse consequence which attends these besotted Princes The Kingdom here is but a Pomp of twelve years continuance and then endeth in a sad Catastrophe For at the end of those twelve years the King repairs to Quillacare prayeth before an Idoll then mounteth on a Scaffold covered with Silk or Tapestry and in the sight of all his People gathered together to behold this strange Solemnity cuteth off his nose ears lips and other parts which he casteth towards the Idoll and in conclusion cuts his own Throat His designed Successor being present at this bloody Sacrifice who at the twelve years end is to do the like CHAP. VII INDIA THere are in other parts of India a sort of People called by the Name of Basadae said to be crooked short and thick but of a chearful Aspect and clear Complexion Of which composition are all the Inhabitants of the Golden Chersonese observed to the Barrae and Cudute other People also called Sinris-Magnus the Lestori a thievish and Piratical people who lived in Caves and were affirmed to have had Skins so hard that they were not penetrable by an Arrow CHAP. VIII CHINA CHina is said to be a very Rich and fertile Countrey insomuch that in many places they have two and in some three Harvests in a year well cultivated and sown with all manner of Grain and planted with the best kind of Fruits which do not only bring corn to a speedy maturity but to more excellency and perfection then any of these western parts particularly it aboundeth with Wheat Barly Rice Wooll Cotten Olives Vines Flax Silk all kinds of Metals Fruits Cattel Sugar Honey Rhuburb Camphire Ginger and all kind of Spices medicinal Wood called China Wood Musk and Salt it yieldeth also an Herb out of which they press delicate juice which serves not only instead of Wine but preserveth their health and freeth them from many of these Inconveniences which the immoderate use of Wine breeds in others Such store of Poultry of all sorts but of Ducks especially that in the Town of Canton only it is thought there are eaten no less then 12000 every day one day with an other The People are for the most part of a Swarthy complexion but more or less according to their nearness to the Heat of the Sun short nosed black eyed and of very thin Beards they wear their Garments very long with long loose Sleeves and their Hair much longer then their neighbouring Tartars who wear their Hair exceeding short and their Cloaths much straighter to which two Fashions so addicted that more of them take up Arms for their Hair and Habit when required to conform in those particulars to the will of the Conquerour then had done either for their King or their common liberty so much delighted with their own Fashion that as the Negroes use to paint the Devil white as a colour contrary to their own so when these Chinoises use to draw the Picture of a deformed person they set him forth in a short Coat broad Eyes long Nose and bushey Beard they are much given to their Bellies and eat thrice a day but not Imoderately drink their drink hot and eat their meat with two sticks of Ivory Ebony or the like not touching their meat with their hands at all CHHP. IX INDIA IT is reported that in some parts of India there are men with Dogs-heads men with one Leg only yet of great Swiftness of such as live by Scent of men that had but one Eye only and that in their foreheads and

they have a Mountain in this Country called Propochampeche Scituate in the Province of Mexico which vomiteth flames of Fire like Aetna and other in the Province of Guaxaca which sendeth forth two great streams the one of Red Pitch and the other of Black they have many other Mountains but these most memorable CHAP. LXVII BRASIL IN BRASIL amongst other things is said to be a Plant called Copiba the Bark of which being cut doth send forth a Balm the soveraign virtue so well known to the very Beasts that being bit by venomous Serpents they resort to it for their cure 2. The herb called Sentida or Viva which roughly touched will close the leaves and not open them again till the man that had offended it be gon out of sight 3. A kind of Wheat in the Valley near St. Sebastian which is continually growing and always ripe nor never wholly ripe because always growing for when one Ear doth Grain another doth Bloom when one is Ripe and Yellow and another is Green 4. The Ox Fish with Eyes and Eye-lids two Arms a Cubit long and at each and Hand with Five Fingers and Nailes as in a Man under the Arm two Teats inwards like a Cow in every Female 5. A Creature found of Cate in the Bay of All Saints which had the Face of an Ape the Foot of a Lyon and all the rest of a Man a Beast of a most terrible aspect 6. Beasts of such strange shapes such several kinds that it may be said of Brasill as once of Africk Semper aliquid apportat novi every day some new Object of Admiration CHAP. LXVIII ARABIA 'T Is said the People of ARABIA had anciently many strange and barbarous Customs amongst them Adultery was punished with Death as in other places but only he was held an Adulterer which enjoyed any that was not his own Kins-Woman be she Sister or Mother and so they kept themselves in their own Families Community of Wives or Women was esteemed no Crime and of this there is a tale in Strabo that a King of this Country had fifteen Sons but one Daughter who according to the Customs hereof was the common Wife of all her Brethren every of which had a staff of like making which when he went in to his Sister he did leave at the Door and by so doing did forbid enterance to the rest till it were removed The young Lady wearied with a continual supply of Dalliance secretly procured a staff like to the rest which when she was desirous to prohibit their accesses to her she left at her Chamber-Door and by that means did many times enjoy her desired privacy At last it happened that all the Brothers being together one of them departed towards his Sisters Lodging where finding a staff before the Door and knowing that he had left his Brethren in one place together he accused her of Adultery but the Truth being made known the Lady was quitted and their Visits afterward restrayned of dead Bodies they took no care not so much as of their Chiefs or Princes but left them to the custody of the next Dung-hill CHAP. LXIX ALBANIA THe Country ALBANIA in Turcomania is of so Rich a Soil that without the least labour of the Husbandman the Earth doth naturally and liberally afford her store and where it is but once sowen will yield two or three reapings But being ill Husbands on it in former times they occasioned Strabo to give them this note for a Remembrance that they needed not the use of the Sea who knew no better how to make use of the Land The People anciently so simple that they could not reckon above an hundred Ignorant of Weights Measures and the use of Money Old Age they had in high esteem but hold it utterly unlawful to make Speech of the dead Pliny reports that they were gray-Headed from their very youth and could see as well by night as by day But withall affirmed to be a stout and couragious People strong Bodies patient of Toil and Labour as they are at this day And well the men may be couragious and stout where the Women are so truly masculine of whom it is affirmed by Authors of undoubted Credit that they were exercised in Arms and Martial Feats as if descended from the ancient Amazons CHAP. LXX FLORIDA THe People of FLORIDA are said to be of an Olive-coulour great stature and well proportioned naked except their Privities which they hide with the skins of Stags Their Arms and Knees stained with divers paintings not to be washed off their Hair black and hanging down as low as their Thighs cunning they be and excellent in the Arts of dissimulation so stomackful that they naturally love War and Revenge Insomuch that they are in continual War with themselves the Women when their Husbands are dead use to cut off their Hair close to the ears and strew it on his Sepulchre and cannot marry again till it be grown long enough to cover their shoulders Hermophradites Hair are in great plenty whom they use as Beasts to carry their Luggage and put them to all kinds of Drudgery CHAP. LXXI PERV THe People of Peru are affirmed to be for the most part of great simplicity yet some of them those especially which lie near the Equator to be great dissemblers and never to discover their conceptions freely Ignorant of Letters but of good Courage in the Wars well skilled in Managing such weapons they have been used too and fearless of death the rather prompted to this last by an old Opinion held among them that in the other World they shall Eat and Drink and make love to Women And therefore commonly at the Funeral of any great Person who was attended on in his life they use to Kill and Bury with him one or more of his Servants to wait upon him after death The Women here less esteemed of then in other places treated as Slaves and sometimes cruelly beaten upon slight occasions FINIS