to the princes, his vassals, is fire, which being brought, all the old fire is put out, and the neighbouring people are bound to fetch of the new, every one for themselves, upon pain of high treason; where, when the king, to betake himself wholly to devotion, retires from his administration (which often falls out), his next successor is obliged to do the same, and the right of the kingdom devolves to the third in succession:  where they vary the form of government, according to the seeming necessity of affairs:  depose the king when they think good, substituting certain elders to govern in his stead, and sometimes transferring it into the hands of the commonality:  where men and women are both circumcised and also baptized:  where the soldier, who in one or several engagements, has been so fortunate as to present seven of the enemies’ heads to the king, is made noble:  where they live in that rare and unsociable opinion of the mortality of the soul:  where the women are delivered without pain or fear:  where the women wear copper leggings upon both legs, and if a louse bite them, are bound in magnanimity to bite them again, and dare not marry, till first they have made their king a tender of their virginity, if he please to accept it:  where the ordinary way of salutation is by putting a finger down to the earth, and then pointing it up toward heaven:  where men carry burdens upon their heads, and women on their shoulders; where the women make water standing, and the men squatting:  where they send their blood in token of friendship, and offer incense to the men they would honour, like gods:  where, not only to the fourth, but in any other remote degree, kindred are not permitted to marry:  where the children are four years at nurse, and often twelve; in which place, also, it is accounted mortal to give the child suck the first day after it is born:  where the correction of the male children is peculiarly designed to the fathers, and to the mothers of the girls; the punishment being to hang them by the heels in the smoke:  where they circumcise the women:  where they eat all sorts of herbs, without other scruple than of the badness of the smell:  where all things are open the finest houses, furnished in the richest manner, without doors, windows, trunks, or chests to lock, a thief being there punished double what they are in other places:  where they crack lice with their teeth like monkeys, and abhor to see them killed with one’s nails:  where in all their lives they neither cut their hair nor pare their nails; and, in another place, pare those of the right hand only, letting the left grow for ornament and bravery:  where they suffer the hair on the right side to grow as long as it will, and shave the other; and in the neighbouring provinces, some let their hair grow long before, and some behind, shaving close the rest:  where parents let out their children, and husbands their wives, to their guests to hire:  where a man may get his own mother with child, and fathers