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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71098	The hairy-giants, or, A description of two islands in the South Sea called by the name of Benganga and Coma discovered by Henry Schooten of Harlem in a voyage began January 1669, and finished October 1671 : also a perfect account of the religion, government, and commodities of those islands, written in Dutch by Henry Schooten ; and now Englished by P.M., Gent.	Schooten, Henry.; P. M., Gent.	1671 (1671)	Wing S888; ESTC R12539	9,879	32

kindness from me her Father likewise casting a pleasant aspect on both did give me encouragement to make some offers of Amours which was kindly received and we in a short time married according to the Custom of the Countrey of which with their other Rites and Customs I shall give you a full account hereafter Being married he gave me Two hundred Slaves and bid me chuse out a place in the Island to inhabit and build a Town that might be called by my Name Having taken my leave I with my Wife and Slaves with store of all sorts of Provision came towards this place which I the rather made choice of because it was the place I formerly had taken possession of likewise hoping that being near to this River some European might at some time or other happen to sail into it as I had done SECT III. A Continuation of the Relation with the manner of the Portuguese treating us HAving given us this relation of his Adventure he carried us and shewed us the hollow Tree they first lodged in which stands at the entrance to his House painted with a sort of red Paint like to our Oker but much brighter colour with which Commodity that part of the Countrey doth much abound Then he carried us and shewed us the places where he formerly had buried his Companions over whose Bodies he had caused to be erected Pyramids covered with Moss and curiously checkered with Boughs of Trees woven together cross-wise Having done this he carried us into a stately large Room whose Wall instead of Tapistry was bedeck't with Flowers and growing Moss and checker'd with Boughs after the manner of the Pyramids before mentioned on the upper end of which on a Seat or Bank sate his Lady with Four Children his Lady was near Twelve Foot high his Eldest Son about Twenty years of age was more than Twelve foot his Second Son about Sixteen years of age above Ten foot his two Daughters younger one was Nine foot and the other Seven foot in heighth But that which was most remarkable was that his Second Son and Eldest Daughter were smooth as we are and yet retained the Nature of the Countrey as to height Being pretty well satisfied with our entertainment and diversions we desired his leave to return to our ship but he would not grant it telling us that we should lye there that night and then conducted us into another large Room wherein was Hammocks provided for us to lye upon here he treated us again with two or three Movyles of Wine which Movyle contained about a Gallon having drank up our Wine he bid us good-night and left us to our repose Next morning as soon as Sun was up he came to us and asked us how we slept and called for a Movyle of Wine for our Morning's-draught and caused likewise some Venison to be brought to us with which having broke our fast he carried us to see his Town and the Church which he had built He told us at his first coming to this place he was both King and Priest And that he had converted his Wife and had baptized her and all the inhabitants of the place being all as his domestick Servants but since the people encreasing he had constituted other Priests After this discourse in the Church we returned to his House where he gave order for a Dinner to be provided for us in the mean time he entertained us with a farther relation of the Government and Customs of this Island in these words following SECT IV. Of the Government Religion and Customs of the Inhabitants With the nature of the Soil and the several Commodities of the Island Benganga THis Island wherein you are is called by the Natives Benganga Governed this thousand years by the Family of Gangois of which Family my Father-in-law is who is called by the name of Conumbro Bengangois his chief seat is Cubugnello the Town where I was Entertained and Married He is the Absolute Monarch of the Island and hath Fourty petty Kings that live about him that do Homage and pay Tribute to him yearly They worship in all parts of this Island except mine the Devil who appears to them very often in a misty cloud uttering or mumbling out some words concerning his will which if they do not punctually perform some great misfortune happens either to them or their Children soon after They believe that they that live well here and do no man any injury and obey the Laws of the Cacique they shall enjoy much happiness after death in pleasant fields behind the Hills At three times of the year they offer Sacrifices to their Dieu as they call him who appears in a Cloud upon a high Mountain all the time of their Sacrificing and these Sacrifices are sometimes Goats and sometime Children Their manner of Marriage is in this manner The Parents of both parties being first agreed the Father of the Maid brings out his Daughter to the Young-man and they immediately upon the first sight declare to their Patents their liking or refusal of each other if they declare their liking the Father of the Damosel in the presence of one of their Fritazeers or Priests gives his Daughter to the Young-man and with her gives her Dowry which is one or more Servants according to his ability and their former agreement after this the Fritazeer offers a Sacrifice to the Dieu and the Marriage is celebrated They are here allowed to have but one Wife and if either die they are not permitted to marry again Both Men and Women here are very chast and temperate in meat and drink Their Women are not so fruitful as in Europe it being a rare thing for one to see four Children in a Family Theft and Murder are here severely punished with cruel Tortures unto death so that a stranger may safely travel in this Island without fear of harm except it be from Bears which lurk in the Woods with which this Island is well stored The Commodities of this Island are Saunders Palm-trees Konock a sort of paint Cassanack a kind of Pults of which they make their bread great plenty of Goats and Deer Fowl of several sorts Fish in abundance Otters and Beevers good store Here are also several Gold and Silver Mines but they are not much regarded by the Inhabitants they adorning themselves more with Pearl and Amber with which this Country is well stored Their Drink is Palm-Wine which they make after this manner They bore a hole in the tree and put into the hole a hollow Cane and at the end of the tap they hang a vessel to catch the liquor in an hours time if the Tree be any thing large there will run out a gallon this liquor is fit to drink presently and is very pleasant and spiritous intoxicating the brain as soon as the most generous Wine in Europe here are several acres of ground yearly planted with these Trees which serve for the use aforesaid They have here a