xI Vili The Introduction. 
tatoes, with a little falc Mackarel, and a Calabafh or two for 
Cups and Spoons. 
There are very good Bricks and Pots made bere of the Clay of 
the Country, to the eafie making of which the few Rains, as well 
as plenty of Fire-wood conduces much, 
The Air here being fo hot and brisk as to corrupt and {poil Meat 
in four hours after ’tis kill’d, no wonder if a difeafed Body muft be 
foon buried. They ufually bury twelve hours after death at all times 
of the day and night. 
The burial place at Port Rayal is a litle way out of Town, ina 
{andy Soil, becaufe in the Town or Church it is thought unhealthy 
for the living, Planters are very often buried in their Gardens, and 
have a {mall Monument erected over them, and yet I never heard of 
any of them who walk’d after their deaths for being buried out of 
Confecrated ground. 
An ampurated Member buried there, and dug up fome days after, 
was found eaten by the Ants all but the Bones. In the Caves where 
the Indians ufed to bury, the Ants would eat the whole Flefh off of 
the Bodies, and would perforate the Bones, and eat up the Marrow, 
of which I have a proof, having brought with me from thence the 
Bone of the Arm of an Indian fo perforated, and its Marrow eaten 
by them. 
The Negroes from fome Countries think they return to their 
own Country when they die in Famaica, and therefore regard death 
but little, imagining they fhall change their condition, by that means 
from fervile to free, and fo for this reafon often cuc their own 
Throats. Whether they die thus, or naturally, their Country 
people make great Jamentations, mournings, and howlings about 
themexpiting, and at their Funeral throw in Rum and Viduals into 
their Grayes, to ferye chem in the other world. Sometimes they 
bury it in gourds, at other times {pill it on the Graves. 
They have eyery one his Wife, and are very much concern’d if 
they proye adulterous, but in fome meafure fatisfied if their Mafters 
punifh the Man who does them the fuppofed injury, in any of his 
Hogs, or other {mall Wealth: The care of the Mafters and Over- 
feers about their Wives, is what! keeps their Plantations chiefly in 
good order, whence they ever buy Wives in proportion to their 
Men, leftthe Men fhould wander to neighbouring Plantations, and 
neglect to ferye them. The Negros are much given to Venery, and 
although hard wrought, will at nights, or on Feaft days Dance and 
Sing ; their. Songs are all bawdy, and leading that way, They 
have feveral forts of Inftruments in imitation of Lutes, made of 
{mall Gourds fitted with Necks, {trung with Horle hairs, or the 
‘peeled ftalks of climbing Plants or Withs. Thele Inftruments are fome- 
times 
