The estates, empires, & principallities of the world Represented by ye description of countries, maners of inhabitants, riches of prouinces, forces, gouernment, religion; and the princes that haue gouerned in euery estate. With the begin[n]ing of all militarie and religious orders. Translated out of French by Edw: Grimstone, sargeant at armes.

¶ The Manners.

ALthough the aire ••e delica••, and the countrie pleasing, yet it cannot be spoken how [ D] bru••ish and barbarous the people be. The greatest part of them liue with cut know∣ledge of learning, religion, or law, neither doe they acknowledge any princes. When they go to the war, the Brasiliens follow him onely whom they hold to be most valiant. They doe generally go naked; the rich••r ••ort, or the noble, were garments made of birds feathers of diuers colours, which couer them from the nauell vnto the knee. The men shaue the for part of their heads vnto the crowne. They eat all kind of beasts, Apes; Li∣zards, Serpents, and Rats. They make their bread of a•• admirable fashion: They haue an hearbe as big as Purcelaine, whose root is venemous being eaten raw, and not prepa∣red it kills them sodainly: they take the said root, and beat it speedily, and then presse it, that there may no part of this mortall juice remaine in it; they drie it afterwards in the [ E] Sun, and beat i•• againe, and then make meale of it, and afterwards bread, which is not so toothsome as wholesome. They doe also make a drinke of the same meale, like vnto beere, with the which being drunke, they grow more subtile and malitious than of cu∣stome. They are much giuen to southsaying, and are accounted verie great sorcerers. They loue no labour, but affect idlenesse, sports, feasts, and dauncing. They vndertake 〈◊〉〈◊〉 not to extend their limits, but for honour, when as they thinke that their neighbors 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ••ronged them. They 〈◊〉〈◊〉 them they take in war, and make solemne feasts. They pu∣nis•• 〈…〉〈…〉 but murthe••. In their language they vse not the letters F. L. and R. They build 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ••••••ses of wood, and couer them with the lea••es of trees. Many families liue together 〈◊〉〈◊〉 one ••oofe; and for feare of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 beasts they s••eepe in the aire in nets. [ F] They liue with 〈…〉〈…〉 of the future time, and almost in common. They swim so well; as they remaine sometimes whole houres vnder the water▪ with their eyes open. They doe easily endure toyle and 〈◊〉〈◊〉; and on the other side, they spend whole nights in glut∣••••nie and excessiue drinking▪ When as the women are deliuered of child, they presently

[ A] go about their houshold businesse, and the husbands keepe their beds, and haue broths made them, and are visited by their neighbours, and finally, they do all things that wo∣men in that case are accustomed to do. Neere vnto Igleos there are a people which fight against the Aymures, who are more like beasts than men; for that they open the wombs of women with child, and pull out poore infants whom they lay vpon the coales in the presence of the mothers, and eat halfe raw; an vsuall thing among them of Popian. Neere vnto the riuer of S. Sebastian there are men twelue foot high, which most com∣monly eat raw flesh.