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Sehsdsgeess Know not, neither have I heard of any Place where there 
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peweS2Oe are greaterPlenty. of frefh Water and Sea Fifhes, than in 
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ay J Qe the Ifland and on the Coafts of ‘famaica, which.is a great 
met Oe Providence and Contrivance for the Support of the In- 
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Bo Cee habitants, the Temperature of the Climate and Air hin- 
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: “ dering the faleing, preferving, or drying Provifions, as in 
other Countries. And as the Fifhes are many, fo the Indians, the firft 
Inhabitants here, and thofe of America, were great Lovers of, and very 
dexrerous, in taking them with. long bearded Arrows or Javelins, 
thrown, at them, which, Allowance being by them made for the Re+ 
fraGtion of the Water, they feldom mifs’d in the Day; and.in the 
Night. they us’d to invite them to. the Surtace of the Water by Torches 
made of the Cereé. lighted in their Canoes, and theq ftruck them with, 
the fame Weapons. Anozher fort of Fifhing, they, had with the, Bark 
of the Tree call’d Dog-mwood, which being bruifed and put into {tand- 
ang Waters, either being eaten by the Fifhes, or the Water impregna- 
ted with its Virtues, intoxicated them, whereby they were {pecdily 
taken. By thefe Ways, and, knowing their, Haunts and Cuttoms, the 
Indians will take in avery fmall Time, what will be fnificient for fe- 
veral Families, which makesthem the more. efteem’d; fo that one of 
thefe Fifhers, who fhall only labour two or three Hours in a Day, 
fhall be worth a hundred. Pound, when a Black flail labour ail Day and 
not be worth aquarter of that Money. : 
My being fix Miles every. Way from the Sea, the Heat of the Air 
making Fifhes foon putrify here, and my other Affairs have mad¢ my 
Obfervations of this Kind very imperfect. Bod o ‘ 
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