Most of the _Tartars_ use no manner of Letters or Characters; in the Voyage made into _Persia_, they first learn’d to make Letters; just so it is in _America_; their bemoaning of the dead ends in one Moneth, both by the _Tartars_ and _Americans_; with a Person of Quality, the _Tartars_ bury a live Servant; the same Custom is observ’d by some of the _Americans_; and so much do they agree in a salvage and rude life, that Merchandizing and Mechanicks are little regarded. _Ayson_ the _American_ acknowledges the _Tartars_ for a rude People in their Religion, Habits, and Dwellings, and yet in all these the _Americans_ differ but very little. Lastly, How common is it amongst them to worship the Devil? Along the River _Sagadahoc_, the Inhabitants are every new Moon miserably tormented by an Evil Spirit call’d _Tanto_. In the Temples in _Virginia_ remain yet the horrible Images of the Devils _Oka_ and _Menetto_. Not a House in _Mexico_, but hath a peculiar Chappel, set apart for this their suppos’d holy, but damnable Adoration of the Devil. Others in _Virginia_ believe, That there is a great and supreme Deity, which is Everlasting, and for ever. The _Tartars_ also are of the like perswasion. [Sidenote: _Tartarian_ Horses.] But this Opinion _Grotius_ hath laid a strong and dangerous Battery against, that _America_ could not be Peopled by the _Tartars_, because the _Americans_ before the _Spaniards_ coming thither, had never seen any Horses; whereas the _Tartars_ use no Beast more, either in Peace or War, nor can less want: For the _Tartarian_ Forces do not only consist in Horse; but the Wealth of this Countrey is reckon’d up in the numerous Breeds of Horses, and several Studs of Mares. Some of the Nobless keep a thousand Horse; none, though never so poor, but keep two or three; and Beggars there mounted crave Alms and Charity of the People. When they remove their Habitations, their Horses carry their Provisions and Tents: If Provisions grow short, they eat Mares Milk, high gusted with Garlick, which satisfies Hunger and Thirst; and the red Liquor which they tap warm from their Veins, serves them to help Digestion, and heighten their Humor, instead of the Blood of the Grape, our sweet Wine. The swiftest Rivers, though raging and precipitated with Land-floods, they dare adventure swimming their Horses over, hanging naked by their Manes, and guiding them by a slipp’d Rein whither they please: To their Tails they tie their Saddles, and other Necessaries, bound up in Rushes. When a Person of Quality prepares to cross any River, they tie two Horses Tail to Tail, and athwart both their Backs fasten a Mat pleited of Rushes, to sit on. When they are stopp’d at any broad River, or standing Lake, they kill and flea their worst Horses; then turning the Skins inside out, and well Liquoring, they stretch them open with the Ribs, which stand like the Bayles of a Tilted Wherry, and thus furnish’d, serves them for a Boat to carry eight Persons.