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lil The Introductioi. 
not only devour’d and took at Bay the Cows, but Affes, Colts, ee. 
did mach mifchief in the night. On the firtt Dilcovery of the 
Weft Indies, Dogs were very much uled by the Spaniards to hunt 
the poor Indians, who had e(capd them over Rivers or into Woods ; 
and their Voyages or Relations tell us there was a certain fhare 
of Booty due to the Mafter of the Dog, upon fuch Excurtions, { 
think abouc half of what was given to a Man. 
Ants are faid to have killed the Spani/) Children by eating their 
Eyes when they were lef in their Cradles in this part of the Itlind : 
this is given as one Reafon why che Spaniards lett this pare of the 
Country, where they had fiuft feceled, and builethe Towns of Sevilis 
and Melilla. Sir Thomas Lynch, when Governour of Jamaica, fent to 
the old Spanifh Inhabitants of it on Cuba, to know what Reaton they 
had to leave it, and go to the South-fide ; the anfwer they miade 
was, that they left ic becaufe their Children died there, that there were 
abundance of Ants, thac here was no gocd Port, and that it was 
out of the Road for the Trade of Cartagena, and Santo Domingo. 
How troublefome Ants may be to Men and Women, much more 
to Children, may be feen in the Relations of 4frica, particularly 
by Denys and Carls, who tell us that when the Ants fec upon a Houle, 
the Inhabitants are fore’d co run for it. Lonce went to vifit Mr. Rowe, 
a fick Perfon at Sc. Jago de la Vega in Jamaica in a morning, ‘and 
found him more than ordinarily dilcompos'd, for that the Ants by 
- eating in the night fome of the joints of his Bedftead, his Bed of 
a fudden had fallen to the ground; but of this and their won- 
derful A@ions, I fhall have occation to Dilcourfe hereafter. In the 
Northern fide one tried to kill them with a Train of Gun-Powder, 
but couldnot. If you thruft an Aumals Thigh Bone into one of 
their Nefts, they will be all kill’d by the Woed-Ants for love of 
the Bone. | iow 
Ginger is planted in this North-fide:of the Ifland in holes four 
Inches deep, made with Houghs in clear’d Ground, ix Inches afun- 
der one Root from another. They put into each hole a {mall piece 
of a Root, and cover it with Earth, in ewelve Months it covers the 
Ground, fo that a Hough cannot be put where the Races or Roots 
are nor. At twelve months end, when the Stalks and Leaves are 
withered, ‘tis Hough’d up, cleard of its Fibrils, Stalks and Strings, 
by a Knife, or the Hand, then wath’d in fair water, put in a Baskerc 
about a hundred Pound at atime, and boil’d in a Ketele fora quar- 
ter of an bour, then expos’d to the Sun and dried, Though Rain 
comes, it hurts it not; chis is che Black Ginger, Frefhi Roots muft 
be boil’d in frefh water, 
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