hi 
The lutroduction. 
They are fruitful, and go after the birth of their Children to work 
in the Field, with their lircle ones ty’d to their Backs, in a Cloth 
on purpofe, one Leg on one fide, and the other on the other of their 
Mother, whence their Nofes are a lictle flatced againft the Mothers 
Back, which amongft them is a Beauty. The fame is the reafon of 
the broadnefs of their and Indians Faces. The Mother when fhe 
fuckles her young, having no Cloths to keep her Breafts. from fal- 
ling down, they hang very lank-ever after, like chofe of Goats,’ 
Their unskilful cutting the Navel-String, does occafion chat 
{welling which ufually appears in their Navels, and makes their 
Bellies prominent. Fheir Children call’d Piganinnies or rathér Pe- 
quenos Ninnos, go naked rill they. -are fit to be put to clean the 
Paths, bring Fire-wood ‘to the Kitchen, ec. when a Boy Over- 
feer, with his Wand or white Rod, is fet over them as their 
‘Task+Matter. : ar | a —e 9 a 
They.are rais’d to work fo: foon a¢ the day is light, or fometies 
two hours before by the found of a Conche.Shell, and their Overfeers 
noife, or in better Plantations by a Bell. They are fuffered to go to 
Dinnet at Twelve when they Wood, ¢7c.- one burden Je they 
fhould torne idle out of the-Field home,* return to the Field at 
One, and come home af “night. 
When a Plantation has many Men or Women, ’tis {aid to be well 
handed; .or in cafe-of few, itis faid'to be bad handed, or to want 
Hands. - This expreffion comes, -as fome others; from the Planters 
of Jamaica, coming along Voyage at Sea, whereby they get fome of 
the Sea Phrafes.. Ac Sea a Man is call’d a Hand, - becanfe his 
Hands are chicfly ufeful there. . Whence all’ Hands up to Prayers, 
is as much as co fay, let all Men come and Pray, or fend a Hand 
7 do this or that, is as much:as et i:a Man do this or the other 
thing.- PA IR FAP cre 
Ley have Satardays in the Afternoon, . aad Suidays > wich Ghrift- 
mas Holidays, Eafter éall’d licle or Pigganinny, Chriftmas, and fome 
other great Feafts allow’d them for the Culture of their own Plan- 
tations to feed themfelves from Potatos, Yams, and Plantanes. gc 
which they Plantin Ground allow’d them by their Mafters, befides 
a {mall Plantain. Walk they have by chemfelves, 
They formerly on their Feftivals were allowed the ufeof Trum- 
pets aftertheir Fafhion, and Drums made of’ a piece of a hollow 
Tree, covered on one end with any green Skin, and ftretched with 
Thouls or Pins, But making ufe of thefe in their Wars at home 
in Africa, it was thought too much inciting them to Rebelli 
fo they were prohibited by the Cuftoms of the Ifland. 
on, and 
They 
