ted. Which was done.

[The Peoples opinion still of this new God.] Nevertheless the Vulgar
People to this day do honour and adore the name & memorial of the
nameless God. With which if he could have been content, and not have
gone about to usurp the Crown, the King so little regarding Religion,
he might have lived to dye a natural death.

[Their Doctrins and Opinions.] These people do firmly believe a
resurrection of the body, and the Immortality of Souls, and a future
State. Upon which account they will worship their Ancestors. They
do beleive that those they call Gods are the spirits of men that
formerly have lived upon the earth. They hold that in the other world,
those that are good men tho they be poor and mean in this world, yet
there they shall become high and eminent; and that wicked men shall be
turned into beasts. There is a Spider among them, that breeds an Egg,
which she carries under her belly, 'tis as wide as groat, and bigger
then the body of the Spider. This egg is full of young Spiders that
breed there: it hangs under her belly wheresoever she goes: and as
their young ones grow to bigness they eat up the old one. Now the
Chingulayes say, that disobedient children shall become Spiders in
the other world, and their young ones shall eat them up.

They hold that every mans good or bad Fortune was predetermined by
God, before he was born, according to an usual Proverb they have,
Ollua cottaula tiana, It is written in the head.

[The highest points of Devotion.] They reckon the chief poynts of
goodness to consist in giving to the Priests, in making Pudgiahs,
Sacrifices to their Gods, in forbearing shedding the blood of any
creature: which to do they call Pau boi, a great Sin: and in abstaining
from eating any flesh at all, because they would not have any hand,
or any thing to do in killing any living thing. They reckon Herbs
and Plants more innocent food. It is religion also to sweep under
the Bogaha or God-Tree, and keep it clean. It is accounted religion
to be just and sober and chast and true and to be endowed with other
vertues, as we do account it.

[Their Charity.] They give to the poor out of a Principle of
Charity, which they extend to forraigners, as well as to their own
Country-men. But of every measure of rice they boyl in their houses
for their families they will take out an handful, as much as they
can gripe, and put into a bag, and keep it by it self, which they
call Mitta-haul. And this t