The word for mourning is marabae [S:  marahaze; margin:  magarihe].  Among their customs is this:  that when some relative is killed, they do not cease mourning until they have avenged him [(on the Spaniards)].  If the dead person is a near relative, they quit mourning, when they have either killed a man or taken captive a woman.  They cut their hair.  In time of mourning, they withdraw into the house of the principal and nearest relative; and there, covered with old and filthy blankets, they crouch on the floor and remain in this position without talking or eating, for three days.  During this time they only drink.  After the three days, they eat nothing which has come in contact with fire until they have taken vengeance or observed their custom [S:  ceremony].  They place on their feet and wrists some rings of a certain wood, called bejuco. [65] When the reasons for mourning are not so serious, they are released from it by striking with a lance or a dagger a deer or a wild boar, even if the animal be already dead.

In every port [S:  village] we find that the people have their god.  All of them call him divate [S:  Diuata], and for surname they give him the name of their village.  They have a god of the sea and a god of the rivers.  To these gods they sacrifice swine, reserving for this especially those of a reddish color.  For this sacrifice they rear such as are very large and fat They have priests, whom they call bailanes; and they believe that the priests talk with their gods.  When they are about to perform the sacrifice, they prepare the place with many green branches from the trees, and pieces of cloth painted as handsomely as possible.  The bailan plays on a heavy reed pipe about one braza in length, such as are common to that land, in the manner of a trumpet; and, while thus engaged, the people say that he talks to their gods.  Then he gives a lance-thrust to the hog.  Meanwhile, and even for a long time before commencing the rite, the women ring a certain kind of bell, play on small drums, and beat on porcelain vases with small sticks—­thus producing a sort of music which makes it very difficult for them to hear one another.  After the hog is killed, they dress it, and all eat of the flesh.  They throw a portion of the dressed animal, placed in nets, into the river or into the sea, according to the location of the village; and they say that they do this in order that the god of the river or that of the sea may eat it.  No one eats of the part touched by the lance-thrust, except the bailan.  These people believe that their souls go down below; and they say that world is better, and that [since] it is cooler than the world above, where the heat is so great.  They are buried with their riches—­blankets, gold, and porcelain.  When chiefs die, slaves are killed and buried with them, so that they may serve their masters in the other world.  If the dead man is renowned as a seaman, they bury with him the vessel in which he sailed, with many slaves to row him, so thathe may go in it to the other world. [66]