After Every Man Has Given His Opinion,
That Which Has Most Voices, Or, In Summing Up, Is Found The Most Reasonable,
That They Make Use Of Without Any Jars And Wrangling, And Put It In Execution,
The First Opportunity That Offers.
{Succession how.}
The Succession falls not to the King's Son, but to his Sister's Son,
which is a sure
Way to prevent Impostors in the Succession.
Sometimes they poison the Heir to make way for another,
which is not seldom done, when they do not approve of the Youth
that is to succeed them. The King himself is commonly chief Doctor
in that Cure.
They are so well versed in Poison, that they are often found to poison
whole Families; nay, most of a Town; and which is most to be admired,
they will poison a running Spring, or Fountain of Water,
so that whosoever drinks thereof, shall infallible die.
When the Offender is discover'd, his very Relations urge for Death,
whom nothing will appease, but the most cruel Torment imaginable,
which is executed in the most publick Manner that it's possible
to act such a Tragedy in. For all the whole Nation, and all the Indians
within a hundred Mile (if it is possible to send for them) are summon'd
to come and appear at such a Place and Time, to see and rejoyce at
the Torments and Death of such a Person, who is the common and profess'd Enemy
to all the friendly Indians thereabouts, who now lies under
the Condemnation of the whole Nation, and accordingly is to be put to Death.
Then all appear (young and old) from all the adjacent Parts,
and meet, with all the Expressions of Joy, to consummate
this horrid and barbarous Feast, which is carried on after this dismal Manner.
{Poisoning Indians how punished.} First, they bring the Prisoner
to the Place appointed for the Execution, where he is set down on his Breech
on the Ground.
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