The Petiuares are not of so wilde and barbarous conditions as many other Provinces are in Brasil; for if you come as a Merchant unto them, they will trafficke with you, if as a Warrier, they will fight very valiantly. They are men of good stature, their bodies are all carved with very fine workes, and in their lips they make a hole with a Roe-bucks horne, and when they come to mans estate, they cut the hole of their lippes with a Cane, and then the hole being bigge they weare a greene Stone therein, and he that hath not this fashion is counted a pesant. These Canibals have no religion, they may take as many wives as they will, or as they can get: the women can take no more husbands but one, except her husband give her leave in publike before them all, then she may take whom she will. When these Indians goe to the wars, their wives carry all their provision in Baskets on their backes: these Canibals goe all naked, and inhabit the Northerne parts of Brasil from Baya to Rio Grande: they have no certainty of meate but rootes, and if they kill any wilde Beast or Foule in the Mountaines, when he comes home, looke to which of his wives he giveth that which he bringeth, with her he will lye that night; then she presently goeth to the water, and washeth her selfe, and lying downe in a net, commandeth all the rest of her husbands wives to serve her; which they doe very obediently for that day. When the time commeth that any woman is to be delivered of Childe birth, she will│goe to the doore, and as soone as the Infant is borne, presently the Father lyeth downe in the net (as women doe with us in childe bed) and is visited of all his neighbours, and his wives serves him very diligently.