X38 Miscellaneous Facts and Observations . 



Mings as I rid along, and much ado I had to see my 

 way, what with a Montero wherewith I was fain to 

 cover my face, what with the flight of them which 

 were still before my eyes. 



" The Farmers towards the South-Sea Coast, (* 

 cryed out for that their Indigo which was then in 

 grass, was like to be eaten up ; from the Ingenios of 

 Sugar, the like moan was made, that the young and 

 tender Sugar Canes would be destroyed ; but above 

 all, grievous was the cry of the husbandmen of the 

 valley where I lived, who feared that their Corn 

 would in one night be swallowed up by that devour- 

 ing Legion. The care of the Magistrate was that 

 the Towns of Indians should all go out into the fields 

 with Trumpets ; and what other Instruments they 

 had to make a noise, and so to affright them from 

 those places Avhich were most considerable and pro- 

 fitable to the Commonwealth ; and strange it was to 

 see how the loud noise of the Indians and sounding of 

 the Trumpets, defended some fields from the fear and 

 danger of them. Where they lighted in the Moun- 

 tains and High ways, there they left behind them their 

 young ones, which were found creeping upon the 

 ground ready to threaten with a second years plague 

 if not prevented ; wherefore all the Towns were cal- 

 led with Spades, Mattocks and Shovels to dig long 

 Trenches and therein to bury all the young ones. 



" Thus with much trouble to the poor Indians, 

 and their great pains (yet after much hurt and loss in 

 many places) was that flying Pestilence chased away 



