. America : being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World : containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither : the conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts : also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers : their habits, customs, manners, and religions : their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents : with an appendix containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the
. America : being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World : containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither : the conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts : also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers : their habits, customs, manners, and religions : their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents : with an appendix containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the unknown south-land and the Arctick region. Chap. VII; *A METRIC A. , +91 « thcr; one of them ftarting up, takesaBoy by the Head, ties him Hand and Foot «that he cannot ftir at all; which done, a fecond Sorcerer comes to his affiftance, « and* with a flurp-pointed Stick bores Holes through his Ears and Lips, whileft « the Mother of the Boy makes a fad Lamentation. Women refufe to have any « familiarity with their Husbands as foon as they perceive themfelves to be with "Child; and as foon as any Woman is Deliver'd, flie runs into a neighboring « Wood,' where with a Shell (he cuts off the Childs Navel, which boyling fhe eats « with the After-birth 5 then waflies her felf and the Child every Morning and « Evening in cold Water 5 as long as flic gives Suck her Husband lies not wich « her, unlefs it be a Man that hath but one Wife. If a Woman commit Adultery, « her Husband beats her out of his Houfe, but if he takes her in the Aft, it is law- « ful for him to kill both. In the middle of the King's Tent (lands a great CaUbajb « full of Stones call'd gjbnturah, cover'd with the corner of a Mat, which none « dares approach without the King's leave, unlefs it be to fmoak the fame with « Tobacco, or to lay Venifon or Honey before it. It is alfo remarkable how the Sorcerers deal with their Sick ; the aforefaid Jacob *™f;—?. (Rabbi an Eye-witnefs relates, That the Kin
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