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made upon
it,
was
forced at length
to
abandon his Defign, and
fly
fhamefully
'Out
of the
Countrey. The
ways were fo
bad , that the Mules
were
not able
to pa!S with his Litter ,_
fo
that he
wa_s carried on
the
S~oulders
of
Spaniards
and
Jndian.r;
whilfr
rhe
ChiribHana.r
cned
after
them
with
Curfes and
Re–
proaches, faying,
Throw down that Old Woman from her Basket, that we m19 eat her
alive.
For the
ChirihuanM
(as
we
have faid) are a
fort
of people
greedy and
ravenous
after Flefh,
becaufe
they have none
ih
their own Coumrey, either of tame or
wild
Cattel , the Soil not producing
Herbage,
·or other nourHhment
for
them being
over-run
with
Brier5
and
Bullies, and
not cultivated with the leafi:
Arc
or
Indu–
ftry.
Had they
conferved
the
Cartel which the Vice·king left
them, ordering
Cow-keepers or
Herdf
men
to
attend
them, as was practifed in the
Hlands
of
Hi–
ffi@iota,
and
Cub1e~
they
might
have had
an
increafe fufficient to have flocked
their
Countrey. Howfoever
that barbarous
people, even from
that
litcle
Con–
verfation and Learning
which
they
had
from die
Spaniards,
during their fhort
abode in their Counrrey, reaped fome
benefit
as to their manners;
for
they did
never
afcerward
eat
the Pleili
of
their
own dead ; onely they were thirfiy after
t'he
Blond of their
Neighbours,
and
fo
raving for
the
Fle!h
of
their Enemies, that
they defpifed rheir ovvn
Lives
to gain theirs, being-infenfible
of
all
Dangers
at
the fight of their Prey
~
and
fo
much did they long for humane Fle(h,
th~t
when
they
furprifed at
any
time
Shepherds keeping their flocks
of
Sheep,
or
Herdfrnen
watch.irig
their
Cattcl,
they
would
forfake
and
negle6l: the Herds and
Droves, to
take and devour the
fle{b
of the Shepherds.
This
inhumane barbarity was fo
dreadfull
to
all forts of
people)
and their Neighbours
roWld about,
that
ten
C:hiri–
huanM
would chafe a thoufand others, to whom
they
were
fo
terrible,
t
hat they
affiighced
their
Childrem
with their
very Name.
The
ChirihuanM
~ifo
lear.ne-d
from this !hort
vifit
>of
the
sp~niArfb
to make Houfes not for private Dw
ellings,
hue for
the
pnblick reception of ail
comers;
the Fa!hion of which was one
wide Gallery,
divided
into as many Apartments as there
w~re
Berfons;
tbe
Room being no
bigger
than
what
was capable to rece.iv.e one fingle perfon,
for
they had no
Houiliold~ftutf~
nor
Garments to cover them, going always na..
ked. And thus much
fhall
ferve for what we have to
fay
of the condition and
b~ti01
Life
of
the
Chirihuamu,
who are fo beflial, and _ inhumane , that no–
thmg lefs than a Miracle can
reclaim
them from this grofS
ancl
irrational
courfe
ti
Life.
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