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     and what not in some tract or other within the com 
     
     pass of America? Yet nothing almost common to th 
     
     whole but barbarism of manners, idolatry in religion 
     
     and sottish ignorance, such as hardly distinguishet 
     
     them from brutes: else they would not have taken rea 
     
     sonable men to be immortal Gods, as at first they did :l 
     
     yet what either God was, or immortality, they knew 
     
     no more than instinct of nature gave them, only a 
     
     confused thought they had of some place or other 
     
     (God knows where) behind some hill, or where the 
     
     blessed resided after their death. And from thence 
     
     they supposed the Spaniards came at their first ar- 
     
     rival. But it was not long before the tyrants cudgel- 
     
     led their simplicity, and by their cruelty appeared to 
     
     them rather devils from hell, than saints from heaven. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “ Yet still the Inland countries retain for the most 
     
     part their in-bred blindness: and worship the sun, 
     
     moon and stars, and they have their other spirits, 
     
     which they call their Zemes, and adore them in images 
     
     made ofcotton-wooll, which oft times by the delusion 
     
     ofSatan seem to move, and utter an hideous noise, 
     
     that works in these poor Idolators a great awe, lest 
     
     they should harm them. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “ The rest oftheir customs are answerable to their 
     
     religion, beastly. They go naked and are very lust- 
     
     ful people without distinction of'sex. In many places 
     
     they are Anthropophagif and prey upon each other 
     
     like wolves. They labour not much to sustain them- 
     
     selves: but are rather content to take what the earth 
     
     can yield without tillage. This in general. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “Time hath not given way to many divisions of 
     
     this America. I find one only in the best authors; 
     
     and that it seems nature marked out to their hands; 
     
     for she hath severed the continent into two Peninsula. 
     
     The one lieth Northward from Equinoclial, and is 
     
     called Mexicana. The other for the most part South- 
     
     ward, toward the Magellanick Straits, and is called 
     
     Peruviana. Each of them are subdivided into their 
     
     Provinces.” 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     * Cannibals