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1^2 A Relation os the Caxiatick-Country.
Letter IV. running away at Grafter Sluts in Brothels: One of the Fa&ors un-
--^W dertaking it, was blown up by a Cartrige of Power, and squenched
his Cloaths a-fiame in the Ocean, so that they were sully bent to
board us'; but they rising to come in, we all this while having sculk-
ed under their Targets, discharged our BlunderbusTes, which made
them sheer ossj never to come near us again j after which we chased
them, they ssying afore us;
Theycarersus The Spectators of this Encounter were the patch Chief and Go-
«*s*ie " Vm~ vernor on the Shore, and a Ship of a dozen Guns in the Road; by
Three we came a-ssiore with ssight Hurts, but cried up mightily by
the People, who are continually infested by these Pirats without any
Ressstance: The Dutch receiv'd us at their Factory very kindly, whose
House is handsomely seated a Mile up a Shallow River, (except at
Spring Tides, when lusty Ships may come up) ; it is built upon Ar-
ches Geometrically ,by the present Chief.in the Figure of a Rowan T,
all of'Solid Stone; it is Trenched with a Square Trench, and de-
fended by a Platform of Two Great Guns on every side.andTwo Great
Bulwarks, bearing Smaller Guns at the Two Corners of the House;
the Front is Italian Fashion, passing to it over a Draw-Bridge; at
Night we walked into the Town, part of it lately destroyed by the
Syddy; where was a Buzzar, and a neat Choultry of the Dutch's, and
beyond a Garden watered by aFresh Stream, where we bathed: After
Supper they treated us with the Dancing Wenches, and good Soops
os Brandy and Delfs Beer till it was late enough.
Monuments We went next day to the Governor,who Complimented us highly;
sor Women he is under the Tyrannical Government of Seva <?/, where all Bar-
wlththdr* Darous Customs are exercised ; and here it is permitted the Women
d«d Hus- not only to burn with their dead Husbands, but here are many Mo-
bands. numcnts raised in honour of them.
Et certamen habent Imth't, qucs viva feqitatur
Conjugium; pudor eft non licuijse mori.
Ardent vi&rkes (0 ssammce peElora pnebent,
Imponuntque suis era perusta viris.
A fbame 'tis not to die ; they theresore Jlrive,
Who may he sani'd to solhw him alive.
The Fitter hums, yields to the Flame her Breast,
And her burnt Face does on the Husband reft.
Which Custom, if we believe TertuBian, is.as old as Dido, on a
generous Account; not by constraint, as these are mostly said
to be.
Dido prosuga in alieno solo, uli regis nuptias ttltro aptasse debuerat,
ne tamen seamdas expeteretur, maluit e contrario uri quam nulere. The
Famous Dido, driven a Stranger into another Country, was courted
by the King, which one would have thought shs mould willingly
have entertained, rather than to refuse a Second Marriage on' so hard
Terms, as to burn her self alive, for fear of polluting her self there-
by; which shews that Virgil in his Account of that Lady killing her
self sor Mitees, was a FicTion more to his own Credit than hers.
At
Letter IV. running away at Grafter Sluts in Brothels: One of the Fa&ors un-
--^W dertaking it, was blown up by a Cartrige of Power, and squenched
his Cloaths a-fiame in the Ocean, so that they were sully bent to
board us'; but they rising to come in, we all this while having sculk-
ed under their Targets, discharged our BlunderbusTes, which made
them sheer ossj never to come near us again j after which we chased
them, they ssying afore us;
Theycarersus The Spectators of this Encounter were the patch Chief and Go-
«*s*ie " Vm~ vernor on the Shore, and a Ship of a dozen Guns in the Road; by
Three we came a-ssiore with ssight Hurts, but cried up mightily by
the People, who are continually infested by these Pirats without any
Ressstance: The Dutch receiv'd us at their Factory very kindly, whose
House is handsomely seated a Mile up a Shallow River, (except at
Spring Tides, when lusty Ships may come up) ; it is built upon Ar-
ches Geometrically ,by the present Chief.in the Figure of a Rowan T,
all of'Solid Stone; it is Trenched with a Square Trench, and de-
fended by a Platform of Two Great Guns on every side.andTwo Great
Bulwarks, bearing Smaller Guns at the Two Corners of the House;
the Front is Italian Fashion, passing to it over a Draw-Bridge; at
Night we walked into the Town, part of it lately destroyed by the
Syddy; where was a Buzzar, and a neat Choultry of the Dutch's, and
beyond a Garden watered by aFresh Stream, where we bathed: After
Supper they treated us with the Dancing Wenches, and good Soops
os Brandy and Delfs Beer till it was late enough.
Monuments We went next day to the Governor,who Complimented us highly;
sor Women he is under the Tyrannical Government of Seva <?/, where all Bar-
wlththdr* Darous Customs are exercised ; and here it is permitted the Women
d«d Hus- not only to burn with their dead Husbands, but here are many Mo-
bands. numcnts raised in honour of them.
Et certamen habent Imth't, qucs viva feqitatur
Conjugium; pudor eft non licuijse mori.
Ardent vi&rkes (0 ssammce peElora pnebent,
Imponuntque suis era perusta viris.
A fbame 'tis not to die ; they theresore Jlrive,
Who may he sani'd to solhw him alive.
The Fitter hums, yields to the Flame her Breast,
And her burnt Face does on the Husband reft.
Which Custom, if we believe TertuBian, is.as old as Dido, on a
generous Account; not by constraint, as these are mostly said
to be.
Dido prosuga in alieno solo, uli regis nuptias ttltro aptasse debuerat,
ne tamen seamdas expeteretur, maluit e contrario uri quam nulere. The
Famous Dido, driven a Stranger into another Country, was courted
by the King, which one would have thought shs mould willingly
have entertained, rather than to refuse a Second Marriage on' so hard
Terms, as to burn her self alive, for fear of polluting her self there-
by; which shews that Virgil in his Account of that Lady killing her
self sor Mitees, was a FicTion more to his own Credit than hers.
At