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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94301	Ievves in America, or, Probabilities that the Americans are of that race. With the removall of some contrary reasonings, and earnest desires for effectuall endeavours to make them Christian. / Proposed by Tho: Thorovvgood, B.D. one of the Assembly of Divines.	Thorowgood, Thomas, d. ca. 1669.	1650 (1650)	Wing T1067; Thomason E600_1; ESTC R206387	111,535	185

thou hast the courage and boldnesse to follow me thou shalt know all what thou desirest but I tell thee before hand thou must go a foot and eate roasted Mayz and do that which I shall bid thee the said Monterinos answered that hee would not at all transgresse his orders the day following which was Monday the Indian came to the said Monterinos and bid him take out all that which he had in his pockets put on his Alpergatas these are a certaine sort of shooes which the Indians weare and take this staffe and follow him which the said Monterinos did leaving his cloake and his sword and all what hee had and so they followed on their way the Indian carrying on his backe three measures of roasted Mayz two ropes the one made with knots and an hooke with two teeth to climbe up by the Mountaine and the other untied to be made use of in the Marshes and passages of Rivers with a little Axe and the Alpergatas they went then after this manner the whole weeke till Saturday on which they rested and returned to follow their course the whole Sunday and Monday on Thursday about eight of the clocke they came to a River as broad as the Duero in Spaine and the Indian said unto him thou shalt here see thy Brethren and making a flag of two peeces of Cotten cloath which were their girdles made a signe after which they saw a great smoake and in a moment afterward the same signe with another flagge and it was not long after that they saw in a Boat comming to them three men and one woman which being arrived to the banke of the River the woman leapt a shoare and the men tarried in the Boate which after a long discourse which shee had with the Indian which the said Monterinos could not at all understand went back to the Boate and told the three men all that shee had heard of the Indian which came instantly out of the Boate having alwaies lookt with attention upon him viz. the said Monterinos and did embrace him and the woman did the like after this one of the three men went backe againe to the Boate and the other two together with the woman did stay there which comming neer unto the Indian hee did prostrate himselfe at their feete and they received him with demonstrations of civility and affection and begun to talke with him after a little while the Indian said to Mr Monterinos be not amazed and doe not believe that these men will tell thee a second thing before thou hast well understood the first the two men instantly put him between them and told him the verse following in Hebrew out of Deut. Chap. 6. vers 4. Semah Israel Adonay Elohim Adonay Ehad Heare O Israel the Lord our God is one Lord and hee informing himselfe of every thing by the Indian Interpreter and learning to say it in the Spanish tongue the two men told him that which followeth putting a little space of time between one sentence and another 1. My Fathers are called Abraham Isaac Iacob and Israel and they named them all foure with three fingers and then they added Reuben making a sign with foure fingers 2. All such as will come and dwell with us we will give them lands 3. Ioseph dwells in the mids of the sea making a signe with two fingers shut and afterwards dividing the same into two parts 4. Wee shall all one day speake together uttering with the mouth ba ba ba and shall come forth as the earth had brought us forth 5. Wee shall goe out from hence shortly speaking hastily some of us to looke out and to make water and saying these words they winked with their eies and thrust their feet to the ground 6. A Messenger shall go 7. Francis shall say somewhat more making a signe with the fingers that it would be a little 8. Give us time to make our selves ready and shaking their hand on all sides said with their mouth and with their hands stay not long 9. Send 12 men making a signe that all shall have beards and be able to write These discourses being all ended which lasted all that day they came backe and told him the same Wednesday and Thursday not adding a word more thereunto And Monterinos being wearied that they answered him nothing to that which hee asked and that they would not permit him to passe the River did draw neere the Boate in a dissembling way and would have cast himselfe therein to goe to the other side but they thrust her from the shoare with a staffe and the said Monterinos falling into the water hee was in danger of being drowned because he could not swimme the men cast themselves suddenly into the water and drew him out and shewing themselves angry said unto him doe not think that thou wilt bring to passe thy purpose by force which the Indian declared unto him and they shewed unto him by signes and words Notice is to be taken that the Boat for the space of those three daies did not at all stay in one place but four men went and foure other came which all of them said the same nine things which we have mentioned being all the men who during that time came to see him about 300 more or lesse These men are somewhat burnt with the Sunne some of them weare their haire to their knees some others shorter and others as wee use to weare it faire bodies good countenances well made of foot and leg with a linnen about their heads Moreover the said Mr Monterinos declared that going from that place on Thursday at night with a great deale of provision which they brought to him he tooke his leave of them having been entertained by them during the three daies which he staied there and having shewed him how they enjoyed all things which the Spaniards have in the Indies aswell of meates as of other things needfull for the life of man Being come the same day to the place where they had lien the night before Mr Monterinos said to the Indian Francis thou dost know that my Brethren said unto me that thou shouldest tell me something therefore I pray thee tell it now to satisfie my desire whereunto the Indian said I shall tell thee what I know if thou wilt not anger mee and shall relate unto thee the truth so as I have heard it from my Ancestors but if thou dost vex me which I apprehend perceiving thee to be so speculatif thou wilt oblige me to tell thee lies so then I beseech thee take onely heed to what I shall say unto thee Thy Brethren the sonnes of Israel were by divine providence brought into these Countrys God doing many miracles for them which thou wouldst not believe if I should tell them to thee as I have heard them of my Fathers Wee Indians went into those Countries and made warre against them and did use them worse then the Spaniards doe us Afterwards by the

could they else report the manner of their comming into the promised Land they affirme there is one chiefe God who hath been from all eternity by whom the lesser Gods were made who became Assistants in the Fabrick and Government of the World as some of the Rabbins also called the Angells Con-Creators with God to whom the Lord did say Let us make man in our Image c. Gen. 1. 26. The Indians judge the Sunne Moone and Starres to be living creatures a thing a so avowed in the Jewish Talmud shewing it to be a thing easie enough for the Heavens to declare the glory of God Psalme 19. 1. seeing they have understanding soules as well as men and Angels they say of themselves that they be strangers and came from another Countrey M●●●…s before named doth not onely averre that many learned men in Brasile take the Natives to be Jewes but that they themselves taught by a most ancient Tradition acknowledge their fore-fathers to be of that linage and Peter Martyr hath from them also such a kinde of assertion And now whereas some conceive the ten Tribes to be either shut up beyond the Caspian Mountaines whence they could not get out though they begged leave of Alexander the Great yet the way was made miraculously unpassable against them as the same Comester relateth Others suppose them to be utterly lost and if once so 't is probable in the opinion of some that they are to be found in America Acosta acknowledgeth this to be the judgement of divers to which he is not onely adverse himselfe but endeavours to answer their Arguments as will be shewd hereafter to these conjectures of the Natives let this Chapter bee concluded with the judgements of two others that have reason for what they say the first is Emanuel de Moraes forespoken of affirming those of Brasile to be Judaicall First because those Brasilians marrie into their owne Tribe and Kindred Secondly Their Manner is also to call their Uncles and Ants Fathers and Mothers Thirdly they are given much to mourning and teares in their Funerall solemnities And last of all they both have Garments much alike The next is Master R. Williams one of the first if not the first of our Nation in New England that learned the Language and so prepared towards the Conversion of the Natives which purpose of his being knowne hee was desired to observe if hee found any thing Judaicall among them c. He kindly answers to those Letters from Salem in New England 20th of the 10th moneth more than ten yeers since in hac verba Three things make me yet suspect that the poore natives came from the southward and are Jewes or Jewish quodammodo and not from the Northern barbarous as some imagine 1. Themselves constantly affirme that their Ancestors came from the southwest and thither they all goe dying 2. They constantly and strictly separate their women in a little Wigwam by themselves in their feminine seasons 3. And beside their God Kuttand to the south-west they hold that Nanawitnawit a God over head made the Heavens and the Earth and some tast of affinity with the Hebrew I have found CHAP. III. Second Conjecture THe rites fashions ceremonies and opinions of the Americans are in many things agreeable to the custome of the Jewes not onely prophane and common usages but such as be called solemn and sacred Common and prophane Customes in both alike 1 The Indians weare garments fashioned as the Jewes a single coate a square little cloake they goe barefoot if you should aske a man of Brasile what vestment would please him best he would answer presently a long cloake the habit of the Jewes and this may seem no light consideration to such as minde Seneca's confidence that the Spaniards planted themselves in Italy for they have the same kind of covering on their heads and shooes for their feet 2 They constantly annoint their heads as did the Jewes also Luk. 7. 46. 3. They doe not onely pride themselves with eare-rings but their noses are borcd also and have jewells hanging on them which they call Caricori like that is read Esa 3. 20 21. 4. In all India they wash themselves often twice or thrice in the day and the women in Brasile ten times saith Lerius and the Jewes were frequent in this Mar. 7. 3 4. Io. 2. 6. 5. They delight exceedingly in dancing men and women yea and women apart by themselves and so they did in Israell Exod. 13. 20. 1 Sam. 21. 11 12. and thus especially after victories and overthrows of enemies which is found also Iud. 11. 34. Iud. 21. 21. 23. 1 Sam. 18. 6 7. 6. As the Jewes were wont to call them fathers and mothers that were not their naturall parents so the Indians give the same appellation to Unkle and Aunts 7. In America they eate no swines flesh t is hatefull to them as it was among the Jewes Levit. 11. 7. Esa 66. 15. 8. They wash strangers feet and are very hospitall to them and this was the known commendation of old Israell 9. The Indians compute their times by nights an use which Laet confesseth they had from the Hebrews they reckon by lunary rules giving the same name to their moneths they do to the Moon Tona 10. Virginity is not a state praise-worthy among the Americanes and it was a bewaileable condition in Iury Iud. 11. 37. 11. The Natives marry within their owne kindred and family this was Gods command to his people Num. 36. 7. 12. The Indian women are easily delivered of their children without Midwives as those in Exod. 1. 19. 13. They wash their infants newly born and this you finde also Ezek. 16. 9. 14. In faeminine seasons they put their women in a Wigwam by themselves t for which they plead nature and tradition another writes expresly such kind of purification they have as had the Jewes 15. The widdow marrieth the brother of the deceased Husband which was also Moses law Mat. 22. 24. 16. Dowries for wives are given by the Indians as Saul enjoyned David 1 Sam. 18. 25. 17. The husband hath power over the adulterous wife to turne her away with disgrace they have also other causes of divorce as was in Israel Mat. 8. 19. 18. They nurse their owne children even the Queenes in Peru and so did the mothers in Israel 19. The husbands come not at their wives till their children be weaned a such an use is read Hos ●8 and at Pera if they be forced to weane them before their time they call such children Ainsco i. e bastards 20. Among the Indians they punish by beating and whipping and the Sachims if they please put offendors to death with their owne hands and secretly sometimes send out an executioner as Mark 6. 27. 2 Cor. 11. 25.