Madagascar, or, Robert Drury's journal during fifteen years' captivity on that island / Written by himself, digested into order, and now publish'd at the request of his friends.

  • Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
Date:
1729
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Credit: Madagascar, or, Robert Drury's journal during fifteen years' captivity on that island / Written by himself, digested into order, and now publish'd at the request of his friends. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Males to be facrijjcecl-^ on the contrafy^ ^hfefe facrifice Cowsj^^r the ?noJi Part, The Sacrz- ■j^ces here are not accompanied with many Ce¬ remonies which it is plain were added after¬ wards'. On this IJland tbey are only Feafls with the Addition of a very little SuperftittPn : They have no burnt Offerhigs'^ hut near their Sepulchres^ which with Gums burnt likewife^ inay only arife fro?n a Defe?ice againfl cada¬ verous Scents. 4thly, But the znojl remarka¬ ble Inflance of all isj that the which thefeM^d^gtif'ckr Pcople^nfe to divine by^and procitre extraordinary Dreams with^ is evF Ephod Teraphim, which the l.vevite m d^ who liv^d in M icah’j Houfe,fee Judges If And which the Ifraelites could never be wholly broucht off from^ thf contra- ry to their Law ^ for it was againfl the Com- inand.^ that At)inaelech, the Briefly confulted an Ephodyj?r David. ’ • I am very fezifible that fome have taken thefe Teraphim for Images like a Manz^ and there is a fl^ew of Reafon in it from Mi¬ ch a 1, s Daughters putting One inDz- yid’.r Bed^ to deceive her Fathers Meffengers whilfl he efcap'^d'^ tho^ I amrather mclin dto think it alftides to fome Divination by the Teraphim, which /he usd/ in his Behaiff for Teraphim is the plural Isumher-, therefore could not fgnife only one Image: ^Neither could the gods which Rachel ft ole from her father Laban, be one god as big as a Alan^ for /he fat on them^and hidthetn.The Word is here in the Original, Teraphim, xkd trail- fated