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Quotes from Amerikaansche Voyagien naar Rio de Berbice en Suriname — Adriaan van Berkel

b. 1695 Netherlands

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These dances continue till daybreak when everybody goes off to tie his hammock and sleep for a while. In the meantime, I found the old saying to be true here: a drunken woman is an open door, because no sooner were their brains muddled with drink; the evening fell and all the hideouts became boxes for couples, after which they would stealthily rejoin the dance as if nothing had happened.

Amerikaansche Voyagien naar Rio de Berbice en Suriname (1695)

It is said that faint-hearted people are often treacherous. Various nations interact with the people of this colony and trade, but the original inhabitants of the country are Charibes, or cannibals, who are quite the most numerous of those who occupy these lands; they have spread themselves mostly onto all the islands in the vicinity, and across the mainland along the Amazon River to the Orinoque.

Amerikaansche Voyagien naar Rio de Berbice en Suriname (1695)

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