. 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. irizfi. T. ill of lirrm. Barmot. The like fort of men have been found by '^'V'^thc Netherlaudcfi ami Pottii^uef,-, not only in Africa, but alio in India, in tin- of B'lrnno, anil in NiW Guinea, callM the country of Pa/oiis, fays FojUks. The king ules tlicm in molt of his reli- gious ceremonies, as in
. 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. irizfi. T. ill of lirrm. Barmot. The like fort of men have been found by '^'V'^thc Netherlaudcfi ami Pottii^uef,-, not only in Africa, but alio in India, in tin- of B'lrnno, anil in NiW Guinea, callM the country of Pa/oiis, fays FojUks. The king ules tlicm in molt of his reli- gious ceremonies, as in Miaking Mokifies, fron whence tiicy have generally that name among the natives, which in our languige properly fignifits ficKI-dcvils. The king his, as \\\v: lil.!,ki report, nt-ar fevc-n thou- fand wivfs} for afur the dcceafe of one king, his fucceflbr keeps all his wives, and adds many niorf to them : thife wives have no great refpidl piidthemj for they mull work no lei's than other women. Some few of them he Ickcls for his amours, a;, I with till m fpends much tinvj v thi: others arc flnie up like nuns in iloyllers. Wlien one of [Jufc proves with cliild. Come man mull drink BoiuU for her, to know whether Ihe has had to do with any o'her but the king. If the man who has fo drank be well, they judge the upii:;ht â , but if the man filK, (lie is con- tlemnM and barnt, and the adulterer bu- ried alive. The king choice of one to be as a mother, a grave matron of tried repu- tation, whomthey call \ and her he AMrhe refpeds more than his own natural mother, mother. This A[:'koiuLi has very great prerogatives at court, none daring to controul her, even in fitisfyiiig her own unruly apjietite, as often and with whom fhe pleafes -, anti what- ever children Ihe gets by fuch means, are aceounied of the royal race: but if her gallants meddle with other women, they are put to death, unlefs they make their cfeape in rime. 1 he fecil-time being ufually every year fix
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