der Water, where they would not find him,
and so they did."

Following is a description of the natives of Cuba, quoted from the same
work:

"The first inhabitants of this Island were the same as those of the
Lucayos, a good sort of People and well temper'd. They had Caziques
and Towns of two or three hundred houses with several Families in
each of them as was usual in Hispaniola. They had no Religion as
having no Temples or Idols or Sacrifices; but they had the
physicians or conjuring Priests as in Hispaniola, who it was
thought had Communication with the Devil and their questions
answered by him. They fasted three or four months to obtain this
Favour, eating nothing but the juice of Herbs, and when reduced to
extreme weakness they were worthy of that hellish Apparition, and
to be inform'd whether the Season of the Year would be favorable or
otherwise, what Children would be born, whether those born would
live, and such like questions. These were their Oracles, and these
Conjurers they call'd Behiques, who led the People in so many
Superstitions and Fopperies, during the Sick by blowing on them,
and such other exterior actions, mumbling some Word between their
Teeth. These People of Cuba knew that Heaven, the Earth and other
Things had been created, and said that they had much Information
concerning the Flood, and the world had been destroy'd by water
from three Persons that came three several ways. Men of above
seventy years of age said that an old Man knowing the Deluge was to
come, built a great Ship and went into it with his Family and
Abundance of Animals, then he sent out a Crow which did not return,
staying to feed on the dead Bodies, and afterward return'd with a
green Branch; in the other Particulars, as far as Noah's Sons
covering him when drunk, and then they scoffing at it; adding that
the Indians descended from the latter, and therefore had no Coats
nor Cloaks; but that the Spaniards, descending from the other that
cover'd him, were therefore cloath'd and had Horses. What has been
here said, was told by an Indian of above seventy years of age to
Gabriel de Cabrera who one Day quarreling with him called him Dog,
whereupon he call'd, Why he abus'd and call'd him Dog, since they
were Brethren, as descending from the Sons of him that made the