A Description OF THE PROVINCE and BAY OF DARIAN: Giving an full Account of all its Situation, Inhabitants, Way and Manner of Living and Religion, Solemnities, Ceremonies and Product; Being vastly rich with Gold and Silver, and various other Commodities.  
By I. B. a Wellwisher to the COMPANY who lived there Seventeen Years.  
EDINBURGH, Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty. Anno Dom. 1699.   

Reader,  
BEing desired by a Friend to set out this following Description of the Province and Bay of DARIAN (my Friend knowing that I lived there and thereabouts some years ago) What I have written is both what I have seen and heard in the Place, and I have not perused one word of Mr. Dampeir or Mr. Wafer's Books; Neither do I know what Description they have given of this Province of Darian, they were both my Ship-maits near six years in the South-Sea: I went from Golden Island over the Isthumus that separats the North-Sea from the South-Sea, and there I entered aboard of the Ship which they were then in, lying in the Bay of Panama, so that I never did see any of them in the Province of DARIAN; For their Ship came round Cap-Horn in the South-Seas, therefore if that they and I do not agree in our Description, is none of my fault; for what I have written is the real Truth of what I have seen and heard, for the Encouragement of my Countrymen.  
By your much obliged Servant. Isaac Blackwell.   

A Description OF THE PROVINCE and BAY OF DARIAN.  
DARIAN is a Province lying in the Isthmus that separats the North-Sea from the South-Sea in the Latitude of 8 Degrees and 25 Minute's. North-Latitude, The Entry of the River lieth near 30 Miles from Darian-City, which is the Metropolitan of its Province. The Word Darian signifies in the Indian Speech, a Shady, City or Town. And it was never Conquered by any in Man's Memory; It's called a shadowed Town, because it's Situated betwixt two great Ranges of high Hills, lying on the East and West, and running North and South, with a River called by its own Name, Darian River. And it lying so near the Line, they are not privileged with the Sunshine, but at 12 a Clock of the Day, which is near right over their Heads at that time: And then the Reflects of the Sun from off the River and Hill-sides, causes such an extreme Heat: But sufferable.  
The Bay of Darian gins from Cap de Samblas on the West, and ends at Cap de Caenu on the East; this is by the Indians own allowance, tho' other Draughts makes it three times Broader. To the North lies off these Islands Isle de Pinos or Isle of Pinos, and some other Islands that lies near to the Shoar, called Isl. de Orr or Golden Island. As also Tortuga or Tortoise Isl. because of the Plenty of these most delicate & wholesome Amphibius Creatures for Man's Use; for they participate of Fish, Fl●sh, & Fowl, they Swim in the Sea as a Fish & feeds upon Grass that grows upon Rocks, like a Bull or Cow, & they lay Eggs like a fowl & that incredible Numbers, for I have taken out of an hole in the Sand 300 and oddsat a time. In short it's an excellent wholesome Food any manner of way dressed; I would say more of it were it not known to all to be true, that it would exceed the bounds of their few Sheets. There is another Island called Furte, which lieth off of the Mouth of the Legoun of Vraba, which signifieth Safe Anchorage, and indeed so it may be called for 1000 Sail of Ships can Ride in it with much Freedom; There's from 5 to 10 Fathom deep Water, with good white chynely ground mixed with white Coryll at the Bottom, in which there is vast variety of several good wholesome Fishes; But especially that much admired Creature called Manaty, which signifies Sea-Cow in the Indian Speech, and many other great and small Fishes. The Mouth of this Legoun is about 80 Yairds over, and groweth Wider the further you Sale in it; It's in Form like a Semicircle. The Word Legoun signifies a Lake or Loch.  
All this whole Province of Darian, 
Soil.  is of a good Strong and fertile Soil and very wholesome, strong bodied People possess it, which they themselves think, that it's the wholsomness of the Air and Climate, that makes them such well bodied Men and Women. There is good store of good Water Springs which flow down from off these high Ranges of Mountains in the time of their Rainy Months, viz. from the middle of November, to the middle or end of January: And then all the rest of the year is fair pleasant and Serene Wether as can be, but Hot with all, which occasions their ground generally to be so Fertile; but especially all about the Lake or Legoun of Vraba. For in the time of these Rains all their Savanas or Salinas, id est Meadows are so over flown with Dirt and Rubbish, which is washed down from the high Mountains, that when it comes to settle upon the low Grounds, it's like to Nilus in a manner: For what they have to Sow or Plant, they do it while the Mud is yet Soft, and in 28 days time, I have seen Melons, Cucumbers and Gourds and many such like Roots come to Maturity in the said time, which I ever imputed to these Rains and the Reflex of the Sun off of the Water and Hill-sides down upon the Valleys or Meadow Grounds. It's an continued Summer for all things are Green there all the year over, Trees of some sort of Fruit will have upon them all atone time, Blossoms budded or set Fruit, and some half Ripe others wind-shaken, various are the Numbers of all sorts of Fruit, Trees, and other stately Trees, for Food and Building; As also all manner of wild Fowl, especially Turkeys and Partridges, Turtle doves, Parats, with various other sorts of Fowls both small and great: As also that small insect Cuchaniel. Here groweth that famous Tree called the Cocur-nute-tree, which affords all at one time, Food, Raiment, & all other necessaries fitting for Household Use. Here groweth also the much talked of Cabadge-Tree, which I have measured when blown down with the Wind, above 100 Foot betwixt the Root above Ground, and the bottom of the Cabadge that grows upon the top of it. Here grows also that much esteemed Nut called Cocoanut of which the Chacolat is made; And here also groweth that Rair and most Fragrant and Odoriferous Apple, called Pinn-Apple, which I am sure many of your fine Ladies would give their Silk Gown for one of them to play with a while. In short, I have not now Time nor Bounds, to set down all the most excellent Species of Fruits, such as Mammi and Mammi Suportas, and Guovas, etc. and Roots and other Herbs, which are all very Medicinal as well as wholesome for Food to Man and Beast.  
There is likeways found in these Rivers, 
Gold.  viz. Darian & Sancta-Maria Rivers great plenty of Gold-dust, which the Indians drains through small Vessels with holes in the bottom of them, in the time of these great Rains. The Gold is washed from the Mines of Sagra and the Mountains of Carabana & Guattimala: Hills in short, it's a Rich Country with Gold; for I have been told by very Ancient Natives of the Place, that they have laughed at their Southern Neighbours Peruvians who have boasted of their having Houses full of Gold; That their King's Ransom called Atabalidas who was taken Captive by the Spaniard, was no less offered for him than an House full of Gold, and if that would not do, they would give for his Ransom four times as much Silver; his House was said to be 22 foot long, 17 foot broad and 36 foot high; yet notwithstanding of all this great boast of the Peruvians Gold and Silver. The People of Darian laughed at them, and told them that that quantity which they bragged of, was but like a Mouse to an Elephant in comparison of the Mines of Darian, which to this hour they say contains in them more Gold than Earth, and I have seen it so in many places myself, when that I lived in Darian a few years ago. As also, I have seen their Horses shod with Silver Shoes and with Beaten Gold, Bridles with Precious Stones, set in all the rest of the Furniture, and the Household Vessels all of Silver and Gold. I could Write much more concerning the vast Riches that are there in these places; but I know that my Countrymen are generally Thomasses, or at least I am sure that they would be content to be Thomasses by experience in this matter.  
I told you before that the People of Darian are a strong well proportioned People, only I forgot to tell you that they are of a Dark-yellow, or Copper-colour, having little or no Beards at all, but a strait Rank long Black-hair as Jet, some of them have it to their middle, others longer, Women to their heels; They Generally go all naked, especially before that they be Married, and but few of the Women kind, unless they are of a higher degree, that ever covers their nakedness, even after they are Married; and when that they do it, it's not half covered either, whither it may be imputed to be the Tailor's fault that takes not a true measure, or the Merchant's fault that begroudges enough of Cloth, I know not.  
The Men are allowed to take as many Wives as he can keep or maintain, and the way of their Marriage is this: 
Marriage.  A Man cannot Mary his Sister, or Mother, or Daughter; other degrees of Kindred they respect not, for the Uncle's Marie with their Cusing, the more Wives a Man hath he is esteemed the more Worthy, Great and Rich; for when any of them offends him he disposes of her and her Children; if that she have any to be Slaves to any who will buy them, and so gets other Goods by the bargain, which likes him better: But Generally all his Wives live very long contentedly together, without murmuring at others enjoying of their Husband's oftners than others, and after any of them is with Child, she will not lie with her Husband till delivered, nor yet come near Men; But when that they are fit for Men's use, either Maid or Married Woman will not. When that they Marry, the Man asketh the Woman's Friends or Neighbours if that she hath any, ask if that it be their will to let such a Maid or such a Widow Marie or Match with him; if that she say yea, they away they go all to his house, and Solemnizes' the Wedding in Eating and Drinking for 3 or 4 days: But at the entry to the House, the Husband gives her an ear of Corn, signifying to her that she must Sow the Ground, and she gives him a Lance, or else a Bow and Arrow, signifying that he must go to the Wars and Woods to fight and hunt for his and his Family, then to such Victuals and Drink as they have, which is all sorts of Jerkt-hogg that is Fleshed down without Bones. As also, all sorts of Barbekewd meats both of Fish, Flesh and Fowl, that is to say, all sorts Roasted. Then for Fruits and Roots of various sorts, they want not plenty of them, as I told you before, and for Drinks called Muslawhi it's made of Planting or Bonano's, which are Roots not unlike our Carrot, only alike big at both ends, and a little crooked, these they boil all to Mash and Strain off the clear and drink it. They have also Drink which is made of Maiz, Turkie-wheat and Casader, otherways called Farina de Poo, whereof is made their Meal that they bake for Bread. Farina de Poo signify Flower or Wheat of Timber, such as hath been Reported long ago to be sawing of Trees. I could fill a whole sheet of Paper with the virtues and uses of this Casader, but however please to accept of what you have here for the time.  
Before they go to lie down upon their Wild-kain-tops, which is all the Bed that they use, they go and wash in the River, whereon, or near to their Houses are commonly built, and when they are well washed, than they return home and lie down: Their Houses I told you are made upon River-sides for Cleanness and for Air, for they make them generally of an Hutt fashion made of wild Kains set together into the Ground as close as can be, and covered over with the Tops of these Wild-kains for Cleanliness, for they will not discharge Nature upon the Ground, if that they can help it, but run into a River where that it may be carried away with the Current: But if that they be far from a River, than they dig a Hole with a Stick in the Ground, and so cover it up afterwards; They are cleaner about the Doors than many of the Doors at the Cross of Edinburgh, unless that my Countrey-folks have mended their Manners. The Men generally labour but little in the Fields, but only the Women & old Folks so long as they are able to go alone, the Men are employed in Hunting and Fishing and Fowling, and making Instruments for War, such as Bows and Arrows, and Lances and such like.  
When their Wives bring forth their Children, their Husbands take them from the Womb, and with his Teeth bits their Navel-strings off, and then flatts the Nose of the Child, either by an Squize upon it, or by tying an flat piece of Board or Bone upon it, for they covet much to be plain-faced Gentlemen, & then boreas a Hole through the under Lip of it, that through time I have thought that they have had two Mouths, through which I have heard them make an strange sort of an Voice, but the proper use is to hang Gold or precious Stones in it; As also they hang a piece of Gold through the Partition of their Nose down over the Mouth and Chin, so hath the Woman a great thick Ring of Gold through the same place of their Noses also, so that when they go to War, they attire all themselves with the richest Things that they have, and when that they Drink they are forced to hold it up with one Finger while the other Hand is at their Mouth; They hang also pieces of Gold at their Hair, and the Men cover their Privies with an hollow piece of Gold which is tied about their Body witha small Weeth of a Tree, than they Paint their Legs with a certain Juice of an Herb that they call Pindo, and as I take the word to be, it should signify Paint, for therewith they do paint their Legs all over; that in a small time they cannot hardly wash it off; so that I have thought that they had a pair of cliver straight Black boots on their Legs at a distance, than they oil all their Bodies, and marches up Man and Woman, Bag and Baggage, to the Place where their King hath appointed an Randezvouze and there pitch their Tents, until that the King pleases to March; ye must know that the Stoutest and Talest Men are made likeways King, and not by Heritage, and the next Talest and Stoutest are Officers under him; again, they come to the Wives and Children, in the time that they are Encamped, those of the bravest and stoutest Hearts amongst them fall a cutting and slashing of their Skin with a Fish-tooth which they keep for the use: The places that they cut are their Brows, Cheeks, Arms, Shoulderblades, Breasts and Thighs, and some their Hips, both men and Women; I have seen so Carved with all sorts of Birds, Fowls and Fishes, when their Wounds are bleeding they stop them full of a certain powder, that both dries and heals these small wounds, and also causes these parts of their Body to swell and rise higher than other places doth, of which they are very proud, because they are taken for valiant and brave Men, then when they are all well, their King Proclaims a Speech in this manner, my brave and Stout men, ye'll know that our Forefathers were most abominably Murdered, and their Goods taken from them, and their Wives and Children taken captives unto such a Province; Therefore it becomes you all now to prove yourselves Brave and Stout Men, in going alongst with me to be Revenged upon them for it; Therefore declare all your minds, upon which they show their willingness by oiling of their Bodies again; so that they cannot easily be catched hold of, and so Bag and Baggage follow in order as afore is said; and when that they met within any Bow-shot they all let fly together so long as they have Arrows to shoot, & when all is gone they fall to Work with their Lances and wooden Halbirts Pellmell, until some of the sides yield, and then the Wives fall a Plundering of the Enemy's Wives, and in the mean time the Men are securing the Prisoners, and afterwards they all march Home; and when that they come through any of their Towns, the King cries out with a loud voice, Erima, Erima, Toupina-Baults Canomi, Guasione, Tan Tan, That is, behold what valiant actions we have done for the bringing you these villainous Men that abused our Forefathers; shall we not Murder them, Murder them, than the People call out aloud, Zanupa, Zanupa, That is to say forthwith forthwith, which accordingly they do, some in every Town, until all be killed. The way how that they kill them, is, by tying them fast to a Post, and so Shoots Arrows at them, by degrees, until that they shoot him or her through the Heart, than the women quarter's them and gives their bowels to their Children to rub themselves all over with them, to make them the more Bloody-minded against their enemies, when that they come to be Men, they Barbikew their quarters and keeps a Feast in the chief Place of the Town, playing upon Flutts, that either are made of other Dead Mens-leggs, or Thigh-bones, or else the Bones of these present whose flesh are eating at the time. Then when all this Feast is ended, and every Man home to his Family and Peace gins to be Proclaimed over all that Province, These Men that are jealous of any of their Wives that have stayed at Home, as many of them do, they get an order from their old Pagels or Priests, to bring her before the People of the Town, where she is set upon an high place above the rest, and then the Pagel asketh her if she be guilty of Adultery or not, if that she denys, than he gives her about half a Gill of a certain Red-water, which is as bitter as any Gall, or Wormwood, and gives it her to drink: which if that she be guilty, it will in a quarter of an hours time burst her Belly and rot her Thighs; and if that she be not guilty, it hurts her no more than plain Water would have done, if that she had drunk as much. I would desire that none of my Country Women should get any of this Water sent Home as a Propine of their own Colony in Darian, for fear it prove their Honesty, as I have it seen done upon them poor Heathens: It looks something like to the bitter Water that we read of in the Law of Jealousy in the Levitical Law.  
When the Children are born and laid by the Mother of it, the Father brings it a little wooden Lance and a little Bow and Arrow with a wooden little Knife and Kisses him if a Son, saying unto him, my Son, when that thou art great, thou must be strong to revenge thyself upon thy Enemies. They have divers names for their Children, such as Orapoecen, that is Bow and Arrow, Sarigoy, that is four footed Beast, Arignan, that is an Hen, Araboton, that is an American Tree, Pindo, that is an Herb they paint withal, as ye heard before. The Mother gets a drink of Muslawhi or two, and Crambs the Pickaninis Mouth, that is to say the little ones Mouth, with some boiled Root or other, and then gives it Suck for to wash it down with all and takes a small Weeth or Bark of a Tree, tying the Child to her back, & casts over her Shoulder, which Pape or Breast she places that whereat the Infant may Suck at its pleasure; and so she goes about any Bussiness that she has to do either about their House or in the Fields, They are truly brave Nurses, for tho' that there Children are never Swaddled, yet there is none amongst them either young or old that ever I saw Crooked or Deformed, which I impute to the strength of the Mother's Milk, I have had Children of my own Nursed by these Indians, and they take it as a great favour done to them, to let them give Suck to our Children, which they have done many times when that I lived in America. As their Children grows up they teach them how to make Bows and Arrows, Lances and such like Tools for to fight their Enemies with all, as you have heard already the way how that they fight, and how that the use their Prisoners.  
They Hunt with several sorts of Arrows according as they design their Sport, some small and sharp pointed with a Fish Tooth, others bigger and blunt at the end like to a Rammer, and that is to Stun or Stupefy certain Creatures that that they keep about their House, after that they recover Breath again. I have seen them shoot an Arrow 50 paces even out from them, and make it stick in a Beasts Head or Man's Head if in time of War. They go a Fishing in small Doors or Cannous or Barkloggs, or sometimes upon Blown & dressed Selh's skins tied together, with which they go oft to Sea; and shoots with their Arrows some sorts of Fish, and others they strick with their Harpoon Irons and so when they are Loaden, they come home and delivers their Fishes to the Women, who dresses them according as they have occasion, and that is various ways for their own use, and also to keep to compliment Strangers with all when that they come amongst them, as I may self have been, especially near to the City Darian, where we had several Dishes of the aforementioned Tortoisses and Manaty with several other rare Fishes and Fowls, which are very plenty near to the Lake or Loch or Legoun of Vraba.  
I have spoken with old men that have described to me a great Fowl in shape like the Griffen, but they are all banished of late years; As also are all the Lions, Tigers, Leopards and Bears that used to haunt the Mountains, and in stead of them, there is great plenty of all sorts of Monkeys, &  Fowls as is aforementioned, which Monkeys are very good Meat to them that know them, I have eaten 40 times of them, and would do it yet, before I would eat Mager or Lean-flesh.  
They are generally kind to all Strangers except Spainiards, whom they hate with a perfect hatred, as they have good cause to do, considering their horrid and inhuman Murder that they committed upon these poor silly harmless Heathens: It's not many Years ago since I saw upon the Coast of Peru 100 Carcages of murdered Indians turned into Mumy, tho' a long time since; These sandy hot countries' keeps their Carcages from consuming; I call them Carcages because they are lying like as many dead dried Sheep, only they want the Wool that Sheep bear in these parts of the World: But I will not talk of Peru till I have finished the History of Darian. I say that they are kind to Strangers, for if that they know that you are designed to go up the Country, they will carry you in Ham makers upon their shoulders with two Men one on each side of you, carrying Water or Wine and Fire and Tobacco, if that you have occasion for either of them, and when that ye come to the Place where their King or chief Man liveth, ye are made welcome by him and all the rest of his Court, by hugging of you in their Arms, and scratching of your Back or Shoulders with their Fingers, the which you must do the like to them, than you are set down upon a Strawmatt, or some such like thing by the King, or next best Man to him, and if that you have an Interpreter to acquaint them with your Business, they will all hear him, or yourself if that you can speak the Language, until that you have made an end, and then the King tells it to all his Court round about him, which if that it be a thing that pleases him, he claps his right Hand a cross his Heart, and gives two or three Nods with his Head, which all signify he likes the News or your Discourse with his Heart, and so if that he do not like it, shakes his Head and looks of a sour Countenance, and cries out aloud Zeto patae, id est, I am not well pleased; But if that he is well pleased, than he cries aloud Yatabala Comorada, that is, ye are welcome to him as a Friend; and so in confirmation of this he drinks to you, clapping his Heart first, and afterwards takes you by the Hand, and Drinks to you, that is a sign that ye are as welcome to him as his Heart, and so ye drink all round in this Fashion till it comes to the King again, and then to Victuals ye go, to such as I have spoken of already, and the way of dressing of it. And farther to, to compliment you with the Kindness, they give you either their own or their Wife's Sister to wait upon you while that you stay in Country, which if you except of them, it is taken by them as an extraordinary piece of Favour conferred upon the Family in accepting of their Relation; ye may use her if that you please, which if that you do, I am sure it must either be for rarities Cause, or else extreme Necessity.  
But be sure that you take her not with you when that you return either to your Storehouse, or yet a Shipboard, by conveying her secretly away as some hath done, to the great Damage of these that may perhaps come into the same Place for Trade, as I knew it once fall out not many years ago; But that if ye leave her with them, as also a few Beeds or such like Toys, than besure that they shall convoy you down in State, with Music before you, and some of the best of the Place will go at your side, and others holding an Subumbrera (as the Spainiards call it) over your Head, others carrying Palm-wine and Tobacco; for fire they can make it out of a green and dry Stick by Frixation presently to you, if need require.  
When that ye are come home either to the Storehouse or the Ship ye cause compliment those that conveyed you down with Beeds, Coper or Brass-Rings, and Whistles of all sorts a few of them, and they will return you 1000 times the worth of it either in Gold or in Silver, besides what Provisions of Barbekewed-Fish and Flesh they will send down to you.  
At your departure from them, ye must shake hands and scart their Back as I told you before; and then they will cry out Zata faca Balla Comerada, that is, many bold and hearty success to you my Friend; so away they march home and show all their Wealth they have gotten from you. If ye have given them any small Looking-Glasses, that is two or three days Work for them to behold their beautiful Faces into, and sometimes looking upon the back side of the Glass, to see if the Party be there that they saw in the foreside of the Glass.  
Now for their Religion, you must know that all the Heathens in these Parts, have some sort of a god or other that they worship; either for fear of Love, viz. There is a Palmtree which affords them Wine every day: and there is a Root that they call Api they worship, because its good for to make Bread of. There is the Sun and Moon, because they receive Light from them. Next, there is the Devil they worship in various Shapes, as they have told me; they see their Valasa, that is, their great Prophet, sometime in a Man's Shape, sometimes in a Beasts, and other times in a Birds Shape. There is a Fish that they call Cayman, that is a Crocadoil or Allagator; and there are Snails and Serpents of all sorts that they worship also. I could insist to 10 Sheets of Paper upon their way of Worship, and how often in the year, and also what Harm comes to them that by Chance kill either of these gods: but wanting time, I shall forbear till the next Occasion.  
There is one thing I cannot omit, That I have seen some sorts of them that can neither comprehend an Oath, nor yet a Lie; though I have demonstrat both to them, they would tell that it is impossible that any thing that looks like a Man, can be guilty of either.  
Their way of Swearing, is either by their Fathers or Mother's backside; or if it be a great and deep Oath, than they swear by their Grandfathers; and if no body will believe the Truth that they are saying, than they swear by their great Grandfathers and Mother's backside. But as for lying, I never could get them to comprehend it. This way of Swearing they tell me hath been ever with them: I think it looks something like Abraham's making of his Servant put his Hand under his Thigh when he was going a Wooing of a Wife for his Son. Yet this sort of them, are they that worship the Devil.  
They have no way of Learning amongst any of them: their way of numbering anything, is by small Stones, or pickles of great Corn; and they keep those that they have counted by them, till Occasion calls for them.  
Their Ages they keep, or count by so many Moons; they have no Names for the Months. I have reckoned up so many Moons, as that hath come to 105, and 110; yea, some 120 years old, and brisk old Men, notwithstanding which, I impute to the wholesomeness of the Country of Darian.  
There is others of them that believes the Resurrection of the Body; because I have seen of their Graves that have been accidentally opened; and these of their Friends have gone and taken all their Bones and carried them Home, and put them in a place where that they would lie safe: I have asked them the Reason of it; they would tell me that he would have occasion for them, when he should rise to go behind the great High-hill where all the brave and strong Men go; and these that are not brave and strong men, when they Rise, they go to a dark Cave, and there neither hear, nor see the brave sing and Dancing, that they that go behind the high Hill see, hear and act also: but shall stay in that place till one Agga shall come and beat his Bones to pieces. Agga, that is, an evil or bad man.  
Their Physicians they call Paggies, plays the Rogue much with them, for they know certain Herbs and Gums, that when they please to tell them that they are sick in such a part of their Body, that they apply a Blistering Plaster to it, which immediately blister their Flesh, and as soon they will heal it, by applying of a certain Gumm, of which there is great Store of all sorts, both of Herbs, Oils and Gums in this Province of Darian; I have seen the Effects of severals of them tried to admiration.  
Their Diseases are generally Calentures, Fluxes and Yea, or that we call the Clap, at which they are very dextrous, in curing in 24 Hours time, by a certain Root they give inwardly for that Effect.  
When they are lying on Deathbed, their Friends Dance Sing and Roar all the time Night and Day, and the sick Person takes it as a great piece of Kindness done to him to attend him in this manner. But as soon as he is dead, they howl and mourn with extreme Howl, especially if he was a man of Esteem amongst them, or yet a brave strong man. Also the old Women cries out, O what a lusty and strong and cunning Hunter and Fisher this Ehu (that is man) was! Thus they continue for six Hours time until he be buried, for they keep none in these parts longer than six Hours time, and they bury them in a deep Hole upright putting in above him Fowls Feathers of various Colours to deck his Lance and weapons of War with, when he shall go to the back of the Hill and Dance with the rest of the brave men that are gone before him: Also they power about him some Palm wine and set a staff before him, and some Tobacco and Pipes, than they desire him to mind them to such and such as are gone before him to Dance at the back of this great Hill, and they put the Earth about him, and returns with a Lamentation, Crying out, O this strong Ehu is gone! who will bring us now the Bodies of our Enemies to eat as he used to do; Thus they continue to mourn for a Week's time.  
Thus far I have given you a true and Real Description of the Province of Darian, both as to the People and their Customs and Ceremonies; as also the nature of the Soil, with the Production thereof: If that it be kindly accepted, I shall give you a Map of the whole Province with all the Rivers and Villages, with a fuller Description than any extant.  
I would have put forth a Map of Darian with its adjacent Places; but knowing that there are many who will not understand a Map, that can understand a Printed Description, especially of the Province where now New-Edinburgh is stated in Cal donia.  
But knowing that some People are like Children, who love to play with bony Pictures; they shall be pleased within a small time with a Map containing all the varities of the Place, the shapes of Men and Women, Beasts and Birds, Fruits and Trees.  
FINIS.