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on theit heads, every bunch twice/as big as their heads, all coming 
in a train one after another, the black and green fo well becoming 
one another. | Having brought this fruit home to their own houfes, 
and pilling off the skin of fo much asthey will ufe , they boyl it ‘in 
water, making itinto balls, and fo they eatit. One bunch a week is | 
a Negroe’sallowance. Tothis, no bread nor drink, but water: Their 
lodging atnight aboard, with nothing under, norany thing a topof 
them. They are happy people, whom{o littlecontents. Very good 
fervants, if they be not {poyled by the Englijh. But more of them 
hereafter, a; rex : — 
As forthe ufage of the Servants, it ismuch as the Mafter 1s 5 merci- 
ful or cruel 5. Thofe that are merciful, treat their Servants well , both 
in their meat, drink, and lodging, and givethem fuch work, as is not’ 
unfit for Chriftians todo, But if the Mafters be cruel, the Servants 
have very wearifome and miferable lives. , Upon the arrival of any 
thip, that brings fervants to the Ifland, the Planters goaboard ; and ha- 
ving bought fuch, of them asthey like , fend them with a guid to his 
Plantation ; and being. come, commands them inftantly to make their 
cabins, which they not knowing howto do, are to be advifed by 
other oftheir fervants, that arethéir Seniors ;, but, if they be churlith, 
and will not fhevv them, or if materials bevvanting, to make them 
Cabins, then they are to lye onthe ground that night. Thefe Cabins 
are to be made of fticks, vviths, and Plantine leaves, under fome little 
thade that may keep the rain off 5. Their fuppers being a fevv Potatoes 
{for meat, and vvater or Mobbie for drink. _The next day they are rung , 
| out with a Bell to work, atfixa clock in the morning, with a fevere 
Overfecrto command them, till the Bell ring again, whichisat eleven 
rung out again to the field, there to work till fix, and then home a- 
through, they have no fhift, but muft lyefo all night. If they put off 
| think one Chriftian could have donetoanother. But, as dif¢reeter and. 
jand drawers, whichisall the clothsthey wear, andare fed with bone 
| meat twice or thrice a week. Collonel Walrond feeing his {ervants when 
| they came home, toyled with their labour , and wet through with] 
aclock 3 and thenthey return, and are fet to dinner, either with a 
mes of Lob-lolly, .Bonavift, or Potatoes, At one a clock; they are 
in,.to-afupperofthe fame. And ifit chancetorain, and wet them. 
their cloaths, the cold of the night will {trike into them; and ifthey be 
not {trong men, this ill lodging wili put. them intoa ficknefs : if they 
|complain, they are beaten by the Overfeer 5 if they refift, their timeis 
doubled, I have feen an Overfeer beat a Servant with a cane about 
the head, till the blood hasfollowed, for a fault that isnot wotth the | 
fpeaking of; and yet he muft have patience , or worle will follow: | 
Truly, I have feen fuch cruelty there done to Servants, as I did not 
better nattr'd men have comé to rule there, the fervants lives have 
been much bettered 5 fornow, moft of the fervants lie in Hamocks , 
andin warm rooms, and when they comein wet, have fhift of thirts 
their fweating , thought that flufting of their linen not fufficient re- 
frefhing, nor warmth for their bodies, their pores being much opened | 
by them fweating; and therefore refolved to fend into Exgland for 
tug Gowns, fiich as poor people wear in Hofpitals, that fo when 
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