A General History of All Voyages And Travels Thoughout the Old And New World F
A General History of All Voyages And Travels Thoughout the Old And New World F
M Labb De Jean Baptiste Morvan Bellegarde
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Vaft Trees from the Mountains, and hurry Hon. Them away with fuch Violence, that no Force is able to refift it. It has been ob- ferv'd that in the Places where the Holy Sa- crament lies the Hurricanes have never come, which may convert all thofe that are doubt- ful of the Corporal Prefence. Ceremo- The Ceremonies the Indians obferve at b the Obfequies of their Cacique* are extraor- dinary enough. They lay the Body upon a large Board or Stone, about which they light Fires to heat the Carcafs, ti...ll fuch Time as the Greace and Humours diftil thro' the Pores and under the Nails, and the Flefh is fo dried that it cleaves to the Bones. When it is brought to this Pafs, they place the Body in a feparate Appartment, where the Bodies of their Anceftors all are, and which hive been dried after the fame Manner of VOYAGES and TRAVEL s^ 199 Manner. Thus may be feen at one View the whole Generation of Caciques that have govern'd a State. If any Cacique happens to die in a Battel, either by Land or Sea, and it is impoflible to come at his Body to de- pofit it among his Anceftors, then is a void Space lett to preferve the Memory of fuch Cacique, and his Children take Care to have fuch Verfes made as may defcribe the Caufe and Manner of his Death, wh ch are very folemnly fnng upon fuch Occaflon.
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