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the flesh for market, smoked and packed in aromatic 

 leaves. ' The swine fed at crawles were in very 

 great plenty.' The crawles had clusters of sties 

 built expressly for feeding and breeding them, and 

 were committed to the care of the same class of men 

 described as hunters, — white servants, Indian peons, 

 and negro slaves. * The swine came home every 

 night in several hundreds from feeding on the wild 

 fruits in the neighbouring woods, on the third sound 

 of a conch-shell, when they were fed with some 

 Indian corn thrown in amongst them ; and let out 

 the next morning, not to return till night, or that 

 they heard the sound of the shell.' These remote 

 plantations were very profitable. They afforded a 

 constant and numerous supply for the market, which 

 at this time must have still continued considerable. 

 ' It was not a small diversion to me,' says Sloane, 

 * to see these swine in the woods, on the first sound 

 of the shell, which is like a trumpet, to lift up their 

 heads from the ground where they were feeding, and 

 prick up their ears to hearken for the second, which, 

 so soon as they heard, they would begin to make 

 some movements homewards ; and, on the third 

 sound, they would run with all their speed to the 

 place where the overseer used to throw their corn. 

 They are called home every night, and also when 

 such of them as are fit for market are wanted, and 

 seem to be as much, if not more, under command 

 and discipline than any troops I ever saw.'* 



" Though cattle were so numerous in the savannas, 

 and were running unreclaimed in the forests, and 



* Introd. ; xvi. and xvii. 



