. 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. 3?i A Defcription of the Book 'l WWv j1llivir Prii:Tl'. Rmihot. Tiiat remote inland nation, which I fup- ^^VNJ poff to be the 0\(os and Ulkami, ftrikes fuch a tcrrour at /Inim, and all the adja- cent countries, they can hear theni mcniioned wiihoiit trembling-, and tlicy tell a world o
. 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. 3?i A Defcription of the Book 'l WWv j1llivir Prii:Tl'. Rmihot. Tiiat remote inland nation, which I fup- ^^VNJ poff to be the 0\(os and Ulkami, ftrikes fuch a tcrrour at /Inim, and all the adja- cent countries, they can hear theni mcniioned wiihoiit trembling-, and tlicy tell a world of llrangc (lories of them. Thcfe inland BLuki, like moil of the Gui- tiiaiis and /Irdrifians, arc cruel in war, and cut oil" all tiie privities of enemies (lain, extending their iniuimanity to women and children, and carrying oil" thole privy parts with them : and it is reported of them, that none mufl prefume to take an enemy prifoncr, who is not fumiHicd with an hun- dred ol thole trophies. It is the cullom in /lnh,i, to keep li)- leiiin fealls , to eouimemo- their over ,ui enemy, tiiough of I' importante. In their warlike expeditions, they carry a fort ot' (Lives or poles, bowed at both cuds, in the (igure ot an S â¢, ar the extre- mity whereof, they a fmail llaiidard, with wliieli they make of va- rious motions; and wiih their long drums at one end, they b;at a kind ot ineafure: others have a tort of tinkling bi lis, on which they beat with Hicks ; at which noife, the foldiers make an hundred various ami ridiculous gcflures and motions with their bodies. Tlie lame (brt of mufi- cal inllrumeiu is alio much ufed in their feftivals antl divcrfions. They have publick vocal muficians, tale-tellers and butFoons, to divert the (ol- dijrs in the field -, and thecavaliy has fmall Ihoit trumuets, which join their mufick to the preceiient harmony, to excite valour in their men ; but to little pur
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