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A49883	The world surveyed, or The famous voyages & travailes of Vincent le Blanc, or White, of Marseilles ... containing a more exact description of several parts of the world, then hath hitherto been done by any other authour : the whole work enriched with many authentick histories / originally written in French ; and faithfully rendred into English by F.B., Gent.; Voyages fameux. English	Leblanc, Vincent, 1554-ca. 1640.; Brooke, Francis.	1660 (1660)	Wing L801; ESTC R5816	408,459	466

they burn nothing but the liver with aromatick odours and pulverizing the bones mix it with their holy waters When they would have any sacrifices brought to their Idol they go about the Town ringing a Bell made like a Still and say this is to supplicate for some of their friends who are tormented in the black shades for as to those which immitted into other bodies as of oxen or cows there to be kept till the day of judgement they hold them well quartered and to have no need of prayers For this cause the Peguans had a custome to eat none of these sorts of flesh as in Malabar and other places but since such time as their Duma in a vision gave precept to one of their Chaouris to use all living beasts indifferently and that a soule condemned to the body of one beast when that dyed passed into the body of another they have made no further difficulty to eat it For such beasts they have a reverence and bow to them as they would salute a friend They have a sort of small Asses that come from the Province of Beluacarin almost all red and black or black and white which they hunt and take with hayes like Conies and being brought to hand serve for many uses but are of low price by reason they hold soules never enter them their flesh is so faint and disagreeable we met with heards of them in the Champian which appeared to be tame suffering one to come so near as to lay hand on their neck when on a suddain they sprung away like Munkeys and returned about a quarter of an hour after They are not so courtly to them as to other beasts for the opinion the Priests have put in them and as we in derision would salute them they would reprove us and tell us their great Duma had commanded Fotoque to curse the generation of Asses and the soules that should take up habitation in them They have likewise many other Gods as that they call the god of atomes in the Sun and others Hell they call the dark cavern of the house of smoak where a horrible Serpent devoures soules and whence one of their gods frees them by his power In a word 't is stupendous to consider the number of gods and Idols in their severall temples their Monasteries Priests Monks Hermits Sects Sacrifices c. Their belief likewise of the Creation of the world is strange and of the sin of the first man all disfigured with a thousand fables For in the year 1557. a Cordelier one Bonfer a Frenchman being at Goa moved with a pious vocation went to preach the Gospel in these parts and going to San Thomas and thence by Sea to Port Cosmin and Pegu did what could be done by Sermon to impresse the faith in these people but with small effect they were so hardned so as after some sufferings he was constrained to return from whence he went He learnt that 't is held the Peguans descended originally from certain Jews sometimes banished and by Salomon condemned to work in the mines of Ophir that they believed an infinity of successive worlds to all eternity innumerable gods receding respectively to the diverse worlds and lyable to death at last That men having passed thorough all sorts of animalls at last became Gods and that these Soules after many ages being purified in certain appointed places and having returned diverse times into these new worlds at last were placed some in Paradise others in Hell and some reduced to Niban that is nothing and a thousand other dreams After this Cordelier came the Jesuites with better successe by means of some signal services they did them in certain popular maladies they were infected with As amongst others Father Andrew of the society at the time that an epidemical pestilence destroyed innumerable people in Pegu a Christian Townsman came and besought his intercession for his family that was wholly infected and the Father demanding wherefore he had not caused his wife and children to be baptized he answered he had such a real intention but that their Pagode had prohibited him and that his wife would not permit it but threatned if he forced Baptisme upon her or hers she would publish his obsequies according to custom and marry another which excuse the Father took for some satisfaction and at his supplications the people were cured Whereupon many more repaired to him for the same cause but he would not grant them any such assistances but upon engagement to receive Baptisme which their Priests vigorously sought to hinder telling them 't were better to dy of that malady then be damned by the cure of Baptisme These Indians amongst other superstitions which they have derived by corruption from Christianisme they have one exceeding remarkable which is that once a year they make a solemn communion Having immolated a white sheep and mingled the blood with meal they call Agricar on the day of the great feast of Duma they give it to the whole congregation in form of a heart with exhortations and remonstrance that this which they take is the blood of their God and upon that day strangers are not admitted to celebrate the solemnity but on the morrow they are received and before they communicate a Sermon is made to excite them to devotion telling them their God receives them into his alliance embraces them as his children to whom he gives his grace by meanes of the blood they have taken Behold how they transform and prophane what they have been heretofore taught of the Mystery of the Paschal lamb and the Eucharist In Mexica and Peru they have likewise confession and Communion after their manner But they have another sort of sacrifice yet more strange that is they buy a slave of a high price of thirty yeares age beautiful sound and jolly and having washed him in a lake or other water three mornings by the rising of the Sun they cloath him in a white gown keep him fourty dayes and shew him to the people telling them this is the innocent that must be sacrificed for the sins of the people Then every one brings presents to him and with humility beseeches him to remember them when he shall come before the great God All this while they take a heedful care he escape not giving him good cheer and Areca Every morning for the fourty dayes when they shew him they beat a kind of Pan and melodiously play on flutes doleful and pathetical straines to excite devotion in which conset every one beares a part that he may be mindful of them Thirty dayes expired the ten Priests called Gaica persons of veneration and antiquity habited like the Victim come to advertise him that within ten days he goes to inhabit with the great God and observe diligently if his countenance change at the sound of death and take it for an ominous augury if he shew the least fear For which cause on

very beneficial to them and rejoyce much at the birth of a child especially a Male-child and the joy is general all crying out That is the Infant shall take revenge of their enemies They eat upon the ground or else on a sort of reeds wherewith they likewise cover their Cabbins they sleep commonly in the open ayre without the least inconvenience so sweet and temperate is their climate Letters nor characters they have none but are very ignorant Mandioc a root is their chiefest diet whereof they make flower and eat it without baking likewise boyled with water it makes them drink in taste like turned milke they make flower also of fish dryed in the Sun are great hunters and good archers Brasil or Araboutan is their principal traffick which both men and women go a long way for and bring it on their shoulders to truck for glasse toyes little knives and looking-glasses Brasil is a tree of more then ordinary height with small leaves and infructiferous many kindes of it yellow white and carnation They make their chaffer with Merchants without language setting their wood an end on one side and what they would buy on the other and so bargaining by signes every one takes away his own In some places they make drink of a root called Piroua which hath a sent that flyes into the head of those that are not used to it it refreshes like Tisan of Orange colour when 't is boyled Being at Caramel they feasted us exceedingly with the best dainties they had and on all occasions invited us to eat with them admiring our wayes and highly taken with our civilities amongst other things it seemed strange to them why we so oft took off our hats but informing them it was to do honour they were satisfied they invited us to marry there and live with them offering us their fairest women and much affected our manners and apparell At Feasts most commonly they make their designes of Warre upon their enemies for prisoners and presently joyning all together do reverence to the Sun promising the fairest prisoners for a sacrifice if he prosper them then choosing four of the best experienced amongst them they obey them without exception They march with certain Instruments that make a loud noyse like drummes and are stuck with abundance of feathers their Armes are Clubbes of Brasil which they call Sangal or Araboutan bowes longer then ordinary and arrowes without piles of wood so hard they are as effectuall as steel'd Thus equipag'd they will march fifteen or twenty leagues into the Mountaines to surprize their enemies whom they seldome take unprovided and there will they fight with a bloody obstinacy preferring death before captivity it being their satisfaction and glory to take their enemies alive and feast with their flesh Having taken any they bind them use them well marry them with their sisters or whom they will and let them live together till the day of sacrifice the evening before they acquaint them with it in a friendly way and the other accepts it with alacrity feasting and dancing all together The day come they lead him round the town or habitation and all the people follow him with joy and triumph the boyes shouting and jeering him who without dejection boasts his own feats and prowesse reproaches them that he has done as much for some of theirs and that his slaughter shall be revenged at full then reckons up all theirs that he and his party have eaten the other still singing and dancing regardlesse of what he sayes coming to the place of execution they unbind him and bid him before his death revenge himself the best he can then he with whatsoever comes to his hand falls on and layes at any one he can reach and sometimes wounds such as make not a timely evasion then come two with Clubbes and at a blow beat him to the ground presently they rip him take out his bowels and deliver the heart to their Caraibs or Priests to sacrifice to their Gods the Sun and thunder then washing the carcasse in warme water they cut it in pieces broyle it upon a wooden Gridiron never turning till it be fully enough on one side and then feast all together They assault their enemies in their habitations which are surrounded with a sort of pointed Palizadoes to gore the assaylants the others storme it in the weakest place and being robustious and strong backed ever strive to come to hand-fight The miserable wife of the prisoner makes most sad moan and specially if she be with child foreknowing they will do the like for her infant when it shall come to two or three years old a strange cruelty and so swallow their own bloud under pretence 't is the child of an enemy Savages though they are there appeares something of good natural reason in them which by instruction and addresse might be improved As when we reproach them with their nakednesse they retort that we are the stupid and unreasonable to conceale what God hath so liberally given us and have we nothing to doe with our money but to cast it away upon clothes things of no use being borne without them Another asked me one day why we Christians would hazard our lives in so long voyages if it were to see or possesse their countrey to which we had no right and saying 't was for neither but onely to fetch some things of gaine amongst them and what gaine said he a scurvy piece of wood and other things as little worth And telling him that wood was of value in our countrey and usefull to our livelyhood And how said he is your countrey so wretched it yields you not sufficient for life and sustenance I answered the countrey had a good sufficiency in it to maintain us but we desired to get wealth for the felicity of our selves and posterity And what sayes he will these riches advance you in Gods favour will they preserve from death or can you carry them with you and replying 't was for none of all this but that we took a felicity to leave it to our children Well said he if the soyle were sufficient to maintain you and your Fathers before you why should it not do the same for your children and posterity They alledge the same reason when we blame them for not cultivating their land saying since it kept their fathers 't will not faile to maintain them and their children So these silly people live free from all passion avarice ambition envie and labour of body or spirit If they get any thing that is good they call in their neighbours and make merry together with perfect friendship candor and freedome without quarrels or calumnies go freely to one another and eat what they finde with a good will They have a drink of the root Cavain which the Carmels call Piroa made thus they boyle the root with water and when they use it they stirre it together and drink it warm this