. 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. VI. *% M E%_IC A. 4S; they have others alio made of great Shells and Canes. They us'd to be continually ac War one with another,which they wag'd neither for Lands nor RicheSjbut either to make themfelves eminent, and to be accounted valiant Soldiers, or molt efpeci- ally for the fake of Man' to feed upon, which they love beyond all things in the World,wherefore they fatten all their Prilbners for the (laughter. Their Battels are always cruel, for they fight very defperately. Emanuel de Moraes relates, That he law a Brafilian fight with three Armed Tortuguefes, tvho flew him not till after he had wounded them all three. The Languages ofthe Brajtlkns are feveral, each Countrey fpeaking a peculiar Tongue, butlo different that they cannot underftand one another. The Tabujans are divided into above eighty Tribes, each fpeaking a peculiar Language, which have no refemblance one with another ; neverthelefs they have a general Lan- guage which is underftood by moftof them. The ]ciuk jofepb Jnchku publifliing a Brafilian Dictionary in Conimbrica, Anno1595. fhewed that the fore-mention d Language wants the Letters /, /, /, ^, r, and hath no double Confonants in any word, except mby nd, ng, fo that the found of the word falls generally on the laft Vowel. The fore-mention'd Moraes well experienced in the Urafdian Tongue, writ an Alpha
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