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A Relation os the Cam tick-Country. 179
In their Fields they plant, besides Rice, pucker?, a small Seed they Chap. V.
make Bread of, as also Cuficush, which is Millet, Hemp, and Flax: —^^V-»
In the Inclosures sumerick, which riles with a broad Leaf like our
Water Plantain, bearing a broad flaggy Leaf of a Span long, oblique- '
ly ribbed till it end in a Spear-Point at top; it proceeds immediately
from the Root by a winding Stalk, which the main Leass embrace,
the other Leafs creeping through it till it rises Six Foot.
Ginger comes up like our Gentian; they pickle it well, but cannot
prcserve it with Sugar.
Potatoes are their usual Banquet.
And to give the Soil its due Praise, it obeys in all things the first
Commandment, Increase and Multiply.
For these Blesfings, as if Men were tolose their Reasons, and sink AFeastos
below Brutes by a base Superstition, they are ready to acknowledge p"'"i""-
a Stock for a Deity, rather than to go without, infatuated by the
Deluiions of the Devil, being captivated at his Will; for which
cause they not only make Oblations to him, but give up their Souls
and Bodies to his Devotion: As might about this time have been be-
held at an Idol Worship of Priapus, (where the Women prosiitute
themselves to him, and receive the Pieasure of Copulation, all that
while being as it were posTessed ) at Semijsar, on the other side of the
Water srom our House, where he lay with Two and twenty, who
reckon it a great Honour, and the Husband thinks himself happy in
his Cornucopia.
There are a sort of Jcttgtes, Priests fit for such a God, among the
Lhiguits of this Country, who pra<3ise this daily; the Husbands
entertain them courteously, wafli their Feet, and the whole Family is
at his Beck, as long as he stays to do the Wife a Kindness.
Others ssash themselves with (harp Knives, and suffer themselves
to be hooked by the Muscles ~of the Back, and hang so some Hours
upon a Vow".
Under the Banyan Tree, an Altar with a Dildo in the middle being
erected, they offer Rice and Cocoe-Nuts to the Devil, and joining
iome small Ladders together made of Osiers, do the like; when the
Gomcar or BaylifF of the Town takes a falched Knise for Sacrifice in
one Hand, and a Dunghil Cock in the other, and cutting off its
Head, fixes it at top of the Ladder, and sprinkling the Blood they all
dance, and beat Brass Pots with a great Shout, saying, The Devil
must be pacisied with Blood, God with Prayers.
Some of these sell themselves to Wickedness, and these must be The Dregs of
endued with the Spirit of Fascination, always nourishing a Familiar cjsj™pk"se
in their Families, which they keep mostly in the forms of Snakes or think they do
Serpents, appearing to them upon their Command; and undergo s°«
fiery Afflictions to have the most hurtful Devil; and as they wreak
their Malice more powerfully , esteem themselves more in favour
with their Grand Master: These are the Dregs of the People, who
are full of Envy and III Designs, who glory in their Shame of In-
cantations and Charms: Such as these are those that out of Fear
pray to the Devil and Evil Spirits, saying, God will do them no harm.
The better sort acknowledge a God, and live in the Rules of their
Tribes, abstaining from Flesti, and all things of a Sensitive Being :
A a 2. Sic
In their Fields they plant, besides Rice, pucker?, a small Seed they Chap. V.
make Bread of, as also Cuficush, which is Millet, Hemp, and Flax: —^^V-»
In the Inclosures sumerick, which riles with a broad Leaf like our
Water Plantain, bearing a broad flaggy Leaf of a Span long, oblique- '
ly ribbed till it end in a Spear-Point at top; it proceeds immediately
from the Root by a winding Stalk, which the main Leass embrace,
the other Leafs creeping through it till it rises Six Foot.
Ginger comes up like our Gentian; they pickle it well, but cannot
prcserve it with Sugar.
Potatoes are their usual Banquet.
And to give the Soil its due Praise, it obeys in all things the first
Commandment, Increase and Multiply.
For these Blesfings, as if Men were tolose their Reasons, and sink AFeastos
below Brutes by a base Superstition, they are ready to acknowledge p"'"i""-
a Stock for a Deity, rather than to go without, infatuated by the
Deluiions of the Devil, being captivated at his Will; for which
cause they not only make Oblations to him, but give up their Souls
and Bodies to his Devotion: As might about this time have been be-
held at an Idol Worship of Priapus, (where the Women prosiitute
themselves to him, and receive the Pieasure of Copulation, all that
while being as it were posTessed ) at Semijsar, on the other side of the
Water srom our House, where he lay with Two and twenty, who
reckon it a great Honour, and the Husband thinks himself happy in
his Cornucopia.
There are a sort of Jcttgtes, Priests fit for such a God, among the
Lhiguits of this Country, who pra<3ise this daily; the Husbands
entertain them courteously, wafli their Feet, and the whole Family is
at his Beck, as long as he stays to do the Wife a Kindness.
Others ssash themselves with (harp Knives, and suffer themselves
to be hooked by the Muscles ~of the Back, and hang so some Hours
upon a Vow".
Under the Banyan Tree, an Altar with a Dildo in the middle being
erected, they offer Rice and Cocoe-Nuts to the Devil, and joining
iome small Ladders together made of Osiers, do the like; when the
Gomcar or BaylifF of the Town takes a falched Knise for Sacrifice in
one Hand, and a Dunghil Cock in the other, and cutting off its
Head, fixes it at top of the Ladder, and sprinkling the Blood they all
dance, and beat Brass Pots with a great Shout, saying, The Devil
must be pacisied with Blood, God with Prayers.
Some of these sell themselves to Wickedness, and these must be The Dregs of
endued with the Spirit of Fascination, always nourishing a Familiar cjsj™pk"se
in their Families, which they keep mostly in the forms of Snakes or think they do
Serpents, appearing to them upon their Command; and undergo s°«
fiery Afflictions to have the most hurtful Devil; and as they wreak
their Malice more powerfully , esteem themselves more in favour
with their Grand Master: These are the Dregs of the People, who
are full of Envy and III Designs, who glory in their Shame of In-
cantations and Charms: Such as these are those that out of Fear
pray to the Devil and Evil Spirits, saying, God will do them no harm.
The better sort acknowledge a God, and live in the Rules of their
Tribes, abstaining from Flesti, and all things of a Sensitive Being :
A a 2. Sic