. A Collection of voyages and travels [microform] : some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English : in six volumes with a general preface giving an account of the progress of navigation from its first beginning. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. 311 A Defcription of the Book III. IChap. to be admired, that tliofe ignorant flu- ^^V^^'pid Guinea Gentiles I treat of, (liouki be guilty of fuch and I'.ctcllabic Ibliics in point of religious worlbip. It is true, tlu; E^sptidiis prettnilcd to louc h the niyderies ol tiuir divinit
. A Collection of voyages and travels [microform] : some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English : in six volumes with a general preface giving an account of the progress of navigation from its first beginning. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. 311 A Defcription of the Book III. IChap. to be admired, that tliofe ignorant flu- ^^V^^'pid Guinea Gentiles I treat of, (liouki be guilty of fuch and I'.ctcllabic Ibliics in point of religious worlbip. It is true, tlu; E^sptidiis prettnilcd to louc h the niyderies ol tiuir divinity and morality under the worlhip of tliofc brutes \vc have men- tiontd i but even tiie priells of the poor iynorant B.\.iks pretend no reafon for their abfurd fu]ierftitions, aiul monlirmis worlhip ; rather bclievinjj; tliat thofc erea- tiires, whetiicr liv'iig or inanimate, have a hidden power aiid virtue to f^rani tiu'irre- , quclh. 'liieie is no quellion to be made but that the generality ol the K^y/iidm believed the lame, and that the crafty only prct'.nded to tlioi'e iiivilcriis, to ixcule tluar impofing on the nuilritutie. I eannot forbear abiding an txn-aorlinary inllanie of the llupidity ot theCi ntiks, in aiioihir remote ixirt of the univerle, tlil! relating to religious obfcrvacions, as relatcil in A'rt:v;'s travels. In the kingdom ot ALt'ai'jr, in tlie ', l!ie natives noCwitlirtanding the law of Alibomcl has got fome tooting among tlieni, atlore not only ihc lun, moon ami liars, but allb('0W^ i and the grcatell oath tlie king Iwears, is by a eow, whieh he never '. When tliole people are near their end, they endeavour to liave acowastlofe to the dying perlon .'-. may be ; that is, the cow's fundament at tile mouth of the faul perlon departing, that the foul breath'd out may enter the buk way i;',to die cow. What can there be in nature more ritlieulous? [ have before mentioned the Malabar people's wnrlhi;)- ping tlie devil; which
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