IXxVvill The Introdudion. 
whom there is no Appeal. Ali they produce jrom the Earth, of 
Provifions (which they fell to the Men of War, and other Veffels 
trading on the Coalt ) 1s equally divided among the whole Fa- 
mily, only the Chief and bis Wife have euch wo Shares Were 
fome Perfons induftrious to fettle among them, and encourage chem 
to plant, the richnels of the Soil would ealily, and advantageoufly 
produce any Commodity, efpecially Indico, but:hey Will not permic 
any other Nation to fettle among them but the Engli/h, they 4ave 
fome propenticy to the Dutch, buc the French they more) hare for 
their wanton behaviour towards their Wives. As <o cocir Number, 
no fure account can be given, they being fettled ac fuch great di- 
ftance, and uncapable to give a true Litimate of themie.ves, being 
wholly unlearned, only fome that have been at Providence, have 
learned the Lords Prayer, the Creed and Ien Commandments, 
which they repeat with great Devotion. 
One Captain Gough, who had lived there, told me they had there- 
about much Cochineel-Tree planted botin by the Indians end Spaniards, 
fometimes in Fields of Fifty or Sixty Acres of Ground ; that they keep 
thefe Opuntia or Trees very clean, chat the Infects may breed on them ; 
that this fort grows very high like prickly Pears, only has no Prickles 
or very few : that the Infeéts come from another Tree, and that the 
appear on the Surface of thefe Plants, in form of little Sladders, which 
they {weep down into an Iron Pan, which afterwards being fer on 
the Fire, icaves fomething like a Spiders Web.  Afterovare's they put 
this Cochineel into Chefts as cured; if ic be not enough dried, ic 
takes lite and flies away. I fhall have occafion to {peak more of this 
hereafter. 
He told me alfo Vaniglias grew here, and are cured by taking chem 
off the Vine (which runs very far) at acercain ripenefs, dipping them 
into hot Water, and drying them in the fhade. If they be pulled 
too young they break, and are brittle; if too.old they open, which 
they do of themfelves on the Trees.. Another Perfon told me the 
Vaniglias were cured after the following manner, and I am the more 
willing to publifh it, becaufe they are {aid to grow in Famaica, and 
that they cannot be fent from thence to Europe, becaufe of their Ig- 
norance of the way of curing them. 
Another Way to Cure Vaniglias. 
Gather them when full ripe, prepare a Liquor, or Brine of Water 
and Salt, fo trong as to bear an ee then es to it a fourth part of 
Chamber-ly, anda reafonable quantity of unflak’d Lime, and when 
that is incorporated, boil all together about half an Hour, then 
take it off, and put the Vaniglias into the Liquor, and let them re- 
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