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not acquainted with such kind of surgery, plucked those
salves away, and by continual! licking with her owne tongue,
not much unlike our dogs, healed up the childes arme.”
“The Elizabethans were not anthropologists,” A. L. Rowse
has said. No, indeed; they were forever confusing the primi-
tive condition with beastliness or sub-humanity. A later pas-
sage in Best’s narrative makes this clear, and makes us shud-
der for the inhumanity of the civilized nation. “Having now
got a woman captive for the comfort of our man, we brought
them both together, and every man with silence desired to
behold the maner of their meeting and entertainment. . . .
At their first encountring they beheld each the other very
wistly a good space, without speech or word uttered, with
great change of colour and countenance, as though it
seemed the griefe and disdeine of their captivity had taken
away the use of their tongues and utterance: the woman at
the first very suddenly, as though she disdeined or regarded
not the man, turned away, and began to sing as though she
minded another matter; but being againe brought together,
the man brake up the silence first, and with sterne and stayed
countenance, began to tell a long solemne tale to the woman,
whereunto she gave good hearing, and interrupted him
nothing, till he had finished, and afterwards, being growen
into more familiar acquaintance by speech, they were turned
together, so that (I thinke) the one would hardly have Uved
without the comfort of the other. And for so much as we
could perceive, albeit they lived continually together, yet
they did never use as man & wife, though the woman spared
not to doe all necessary things that appertained to a good
houswife indifferently for them both, as in making cleane
their Cabin, and every other thing that appertained to his

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