And how came all the Communication to be so entirely cut off between the Nations of _Europe_ and _Africa_, from whence _America_ must certainly have been peopl'd, or else the _Devil_ must have done it indeed? I say, how came the Communication to be so entirely cut off between them, that except the time, _whenever it was_, that People did at first reach from one to the other, none ever came back to give their Friends any account of their Success, or invite them to follow? Nor did they hear of one another afterwards, as we have Reason to think: Did _Satan_ politically keep them thus asunder, lest News from Heaven should reach them, and so they should be recover'd out of his Government? We cannot tell how to give any other rational Account of it, that a Nation, nay a Quarter of the World, or as some will have it be, half the Globe, should be peopled from _Europe_ or _Africa_, or both, and no body ever go after them, or come back from them in above three thousand years after. Nay, that those Countries should be peopled when there was no Navigation in use in these Parts of the World, no Ships made that could carry Provisions enough to support the People that fail'd in them, but that they must have been starved to death before they could reach the Shore of _America_; the Ferry from _Europe_ or _Africa_, in any Part (which we have known Navigation to be practised in) being at least 1000 Miles, and in most Places much more. But as to the _Americans_, let the _Devil_ and they alone to account for their coming Thither, this we are certain of, that we knew nothing of them for many hundred Years; and when we did, when the Discovery was made, they that went from Hence found _Satan_ in a full and quiet Possession of them, ruling them with an arbitrary Government, particular to himself; He had led them into a blind Subjection to himself, nay, I might call it Devotion, for it was all of Religion that was to be found among them) worshipping horrible Idols in his Name, to whom he directed human Sacrifices continually to be made, till he deluged the Country with Blood, and ripen'd them up for the Destruction that follow'd, from the Invasion of the _Spaniards_, who he knew would hurry them all out of the World as fast as he (_the Devil_) himself could desire of them.