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80 about their Necks, their Wrists, Ancles and Legs, with the Drops in their Hair, to 8 or 10 ''lib. Troy''-Weight.

Finding our Landlord cheerful and familiar, I ventured to ask him what was become of the Dutchmen's Skulls that lately paved the entrance of his House. He told me very frankly, that about a Month before our Ship’s Arrival, he had put them all into a Chest with some Brandy, Pipes, and Tobacco, and buried them; for, says he, it is time that all Malice should depart, and the putting up a few Necessaries with the Corps, such as they loved, is our way of respecting the deceased.Among themselves, I learned it was customary with the Rich, to sacrifice a Slave or two also at their Funerals, The under Jawbones of these Dutchmen he shewed me strung, and hanging on a Tree in the Courtyard.

From this odd Ceremony in their Funerals, and what is above noted upon the Word Fetish, it looks as though there were some dark Notions of a future State among them, and an Expectance in it of Retribution.

It is impossible to expect in such a State of Nature as theirs, naked of Education and Science, that they should be able to form any refined Notions of a Deity; which, we experience among our selves, receives the Improvement with our growing Understanding, purely the Effect of Art and Study; the