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high Mountaines, which crackes theystoped very close,
so that the Waters could not enter in, having before
shut therin many kinds of beasts: that when they
perceived the Raine to cease and Waters to fall, they
first sent out certaine doggs, which returned cleanewasht
and wet, they judged that the waters were not
yet much' falne; and that afterward sending out some
other, which seeing to returne all muddy and foule,
they issued forth of the mountaines, to repeople the
world againe, which they found replenished onely with
Serpents. There were places found where they used
the perswasion of the day of judgement, so that they
grew wondrous wroth and offended with the Spaniards,
who in digging and searching of riches in their graves,
scattered here and there the bones of there deceased
friends, saying, that those dispersed bones could very
hardly be reconjoyned together againe. They also
found where they used traffick by exchange, and no
otherwise; and had Faires and Markets for that
purpose; they found dwarfes, and such other deformed
creatures, used for the ornament of Princes tables:
they found the use of hawking and fowling according
to the nature of their birdes: tyrannicall subsidies,
and grievances upon subjects; delicate and pleasant
gardens; dancing, tumbling, leaping, and jugling,
musicke of instruments, armories, dicing-houses,
tennisse-courts, and casting lottes, or mumne-chaunce,
wherein they are often so earnest and moody, that
they will play themselves and their liberty : using no
other physicke but by charmes : the manner of writing
by figures: beleeving in one first man, universall
father of all people. The adoration of one God, who
heretofore lived man in perfect Virginitie, fasting,
and penance, preaching the law of Nature, and the
ceremonies of religion; and who vanished out of the
world without any naturall death: The opinion of
Giants; the use of drunkennesse, with their manner
of drinkes and drinking and pledging of healths ; religious
ornaments painted over with bones and dead
mens sculs; surplices, holy Water, and holy Water