Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	army_n	battle_n	fight_n	1,135	5	8.9229	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42798	A new voyage to the East-Indies containing an account of several of those rich countries, and more particularly of the kingdom of Bantam : giving an exact relation of the extent of that monarch's dominions, the religion, manners and customs of the inhabitants, their commerce, and the product of the country, and likewise a faithful narrative of the kingdom of Siam, of the isles of Japan and Madagascar, and of several other parts, with such new discoveries as were never yet made by any other traveller / by Mr. Glanius.	Glanius, Mr.	1682 (1682)	Wing G793; ESTC R40478	75,780	191

on his left Leg the Father and Unckles of the Child do the same upon their Arms and in that Equipage they follow the Priest thro the Door situated on the West into the Hut where the Mother is in Bed with the Child In fine after the Circumcision the Fore-skin is cast upon the ground if the person Circumcised be a Slave but if free the Fore-skin is put upon the Yelk of an Egg whereon the Father or Unckle of the Child receive it from the hand of the Priests After having put upon the Wound a Mixture of the bloud of a Cock and the Juice of Herbs the Child is brought back to his Fathers House with Huzzas and Acclamations which last the rest of the day To see these Grimaces one would say that these Insularies are very Religious and very tender of their Children however we may affirm they are nothing less than that for indeed they neither sincerity nor affection which it is easie to prove When they have a Child born they give notice thereof to their Priests who make those ignorant People believe they read in the Stars all that happens upon Earth The Priest pretends to consult the Heavens upon what is to happen to the Child and according to the humour he is in he speaks well or ill of his future inclinations and if His Holiness says that he is born under an ill Constellation that his manners will be corrupted that he will be wicked cruel and bloudy minded from that moment the Child is carried out of the House and cast into a Bush where it serves for food unto the Beasts If a Woman during her big-belly finds her self more ill than usually they stick not to believe that 't is the Child who torments her and this is an ill Omen whereupon they give the Mother a certain Potion which kills the Child or if they wait till it be born it is no sooner born but 't is cast into a Ditch or into Water This inhumanity is so general that all Women both Free and Slaves make no scruple of losing their Fruit upon any pretext whatsoever Sometimes it is by reason that the Mother being a Slave takes it ill to see her self put away by her Master who has deflowred her sometimes for that a white Maid being got with Child by a Blackmore has some horrour of being the Mother of a Child of a different colour and lastly sometimes for that a Maid having got an itch to Libertinisme and is not willing to Marry chooses rather to kill her Children than take the trouble of breeding them up But if the Women are unnatural the Men do not fall short of them in that ill Quality for if it happens that the Mother expires in the Delivery the Father causes the Child to be put in the same Coffin saying that it is better for it to be dead than to be brought up by Strangers Besides these unhappy pretences of getting rid of their Children there are a hundred others caused by Superstition thus it is no wonder that this Island as voluptuous as it is is however so thinly populated Those who inhabit towards the Coasts being become more humane thro Commerce with strangers are something less easie to put their Children to Death When the Priest has told them his Sentiment and gives them no good hopes there are those who will have them educated privately by Slaves who bring them up like Beasts to the end say they that they may overcome by that means their ill nature The Island is governed by several Kings who are almost always in War Their Armes are Bows and Arrows Javelins and Targets they do not want Courage but they Fight without Rules and Art Their principal dexterity consists in surprizing the Enemy in an advantageous Place and keeping him in play while the others secure the Country and burn all they meet with In the mean while the Women take their pleasure and seek out all means of diversion but they dare not be unfaithful to their Husbands at least those who love them believing that if they had any favour to their prejudice they would not fail to be killed or dangerously wounded whereas by making good chear without having to do with Men the Husband would become both stronger and more couragious During our abode in the Island King Diembro having marcht against His Enemies in the Head of Seven Thousand Men we went upon a Mountain from whence we saw the field of Battel The two Armies being in sight they began confusedly with Javelins then endeavouring to join the strongest flung his Man upon the Ground and killed him without remission the Fight was long and doubtful but at length Diembro had the advantage tho he was much inferiour in Number those who remain Conquerors return to their Homes singing but the greatest noise comes from those who have been made Nobles which is performed in this manner some days before that of the Battel there are Detachments drawn out on both sides to skirmish those who are the strongest cut their Enemies Heads off and carry and lay them at the Kings feet who Caresses 'em very highly and gives 'em the Title of Noblemen if in the following Wars those Noblemen bring still more Heads they are qualify'd proportionably insomuch as the Heads of their Enemies are as so many steps which raise 'em to the highest Offices and Dignities When they have a desire to make Peace the first means to attain it is to make Presents on both sides and to appoint the day for the Treaty The day being come both Armies set ' emselves in Battel-Array upon the Banks of a River which parts 'em They kill a Bull on each side out of whose Liver Kings send one another a Portion whereof they and their Generals eat in the presence of their Deputies at the same time they swear to execute punctually the Articles of Peace which they had newly agreed to which commonly consist in never poysoning the Waters nor Cattel more and in not burning the Houses and in abstaining from all Pillage Wishing that the Liver they eat may serve 'em for Poison if they speak against their Thoughts Sect. III. AFter five whole Moneths stay at Madagascar we departed from thence on the 16 th of March and on the 12 th of June we arrived at Sumatra We cast Anchor in the Port of Sillebar where we took in Peper and some other refreshments In Cruising along the Coasts we took two Joncks that we met with All the People they had on Board leapt into the Sea except a Woman whom all the Italians vitiated in spight of our Officers after the most bruitish manner imaginable when their Rage was glutted they let her go but she was no sooner on Land than her Husband stab'd her to Death On the 28 th we made Sail towards Indrapoura and in our way we took two Joncks more of Arquin that were laded with Pepper Sandalewood Camphire and such like things On the 29