NA BRASILIEN. TO BRAZIL.

And flees to the army of the Gagas.

I, the next day, at a large place called Cashil, lying in a very dense forest: here I was brought to the Lord Cashil, where all the people of the place, both young and old, came to see me with wonder, as one had never seen a white person there. Here were some of the Gagas' people, whom I noticed with joy, and who brought me to Calicansamba, where their army lay.

Arrives at Cashil, which is described.

This place of the Lord Cashil is large and so beset with Elicondie likely Baobab trees, cedar, and palm trees that the streets are dark from them.

As is also the statue Quefango.

In the middle of this city stands a statue as large as a person, 12 feet high from the ground; around it is laid in the ground an ivory circle, upon which lie many skulls of people who were killed in war and are sacrificed to this statue.

They pour palm wine before its feet, then kill goats, and pour their blood out.

What esteem one had for it.

This statue is called Quefango; the people give much belief to it, swear by it, and believe that their sickness is caused by Quefango's displeasure. In various other places of the city there were also small statues, which were likewise surrounded with elephant tusks.

Elephant tusks around their statues.

The streets here were very neatly lined with palm reeds; the houses round like a beehive, and lined on the inside with fine, very neatly worked mats. On the south side of the city was another Mokiso idol/spirit figure, which was adorned with more than 3 tons of elephant tusks.

From this Cashil I went with the Gagas 2 days further inland and arrived at Calicansamba, where their army lay, where I was welcome.

Battel comes to the Gagas.

I intended to remain among these man-eaters, in the hope that they would move so far toward the west that one could see the sea, and I would be able to escape by one ship or another.