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eaten by the Spaniards. The Pearls are fold by the Indians to the 
Spaniards by the Shell full. They are dark more or lefs, and are 
not of fo clear a colour as the Oriental Pearls are. When the Jn- 
dians find very large Pearls, they keep and hide them till they find 
a better Merchant, which are often others than the Spaniards. This 
Pearl fifhery was farmed of the Spaniards by Enclith Merchants of 
Jamaica when I was there. 
New- England Horfes are frequently brought to Jamaica, they are 
bought for Five Pound apiece in New England, and kept by the 
wayon Bran, they ufually are fold in Jamaica at Fifteen Pounds, 
they are rougher than the Horles in the Ifland ufually Pace, and 
lofe their Hair at firft coming. 
The Inhabitants of New- England Pickle Pork and Beef either dry 
or wet, the firft is done in bad Cask, the other in good Cask, and 
is much the better, the firft proving ordinarily rufty. 
Fifh preferv'd and cur'd, both dry and wet, come from thence. 
One half-Barrel of Irifh Pork is worth about Twenty two Shil- 
lings, and a Barrel of Beef as much, which is in Provifion, to be 
diftribuced for the fupport of Servants and Slaves, reckoned equiva- 
lent to it. : 
Sale wet Mackerel comes from New-England, and is much ufed in 
this Ifland for the fupport of Slaves and Servants, 
The true way of fatting Cattle, as I was inform’d by the Grafiers 
of Jamaica, is by bleeding them in the Jugular Vein (which will 
ftop of its felf) and then purging them with Aloe or Sempervive 
Leaves clear'd of their outward Skins, and thruft down by Gobbets 
till a whole Leaf is fwallowed. 
The fame has been effectual in a Man, in reftoring the tone of 
his Stomach loft by drinking. It purges Cattle and Men of Worms, 
and may make them fat that way. 
The lefs Nourifhment the Grafs affords, the greater the Paunch 
" of the Beaft feeding on it, fo that the Bellies of Cattle are fo large 
in dry times in hot Countries, as if they were big with young, 
On Eii/paniola, at Samana are many French Hunters, They go 
out Twelvein a Company, for fear of the Spaniards. “The Hogs 
they take have fometimes Stones in their Bladders ; one of thefe Stones 
I had brought me thence was long, of divers Tunicles, the outward 
white, thofe within it reddifh, and {melling very ftrong of Urine. 
I had two others bigger than any Peafe, round, and fet about with 
protuberant Prickles they were taken out of the Urethra of Hogs. 
They were fhining and Cryftalline, and exactly refembled thofe 
taken out of Human Bodies, At 
