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A Trne tnd Exal Hiffory 
, a his wife to God, and her good fortune, i theroom, and 
upon the board alone, and calls a neighbour to come to her, who 
gives little help to her delivery, but when the child is born, (which 
the calls her Pickaninny) fhe helps to make a little fire neat her feet, 
and that ferves inftead of Poffets, Broaths, and Caudles. In a fort- 
night,. this woman is at work with her Pickaninny at her back, as 
merry a foul as any is there = If the Overfeet be difcreet , the is 
fuffer'd to reft her felf a little more than ordiitary 5 but if not, the is 
compelled to do as others do. Times they have of fackling theif } 
Children in the fields, and refrefhing themfelves 5 and good reafon, for 
they carry burthens on their backs and yet work too. Some wonien, 
whofe Pickaninniesare three years old, will, as they work at weed- 
ing, whichis a ftodping work,fuffer the hee Pickaninny, to fita ftride 
upon their backs , like St. George a Horfe-back ; and there Spur his 
mother with his heels, and fings and crows on her back, ‘clapping 
his hands, as if he meant to flye; whichthe mother is {6 pleas'd with, 
as fhe continues her painful {téoping pofture, longer than fhe would 
do, rather than difcompofe bee joel Pickaninny of his pleafure , 
| fo glad the isto fee him merry, The work which the women do, is 
* spe it vveeding, aftooping and painful Vvork ; atrioon and night 
ey are-call’d home by the ring of aBell,vvhere they have tvvo hours 
time for theirrepaft at noon; and at night, they reft fof fix, till fix| 
a Clock next morning. : : i aaa 
On Sunday they reft,and have the vvhole day aetheir pleaftre; and 
the moft of th eee Wea yt beth baa 3 but fome of them 
| vvho vvill make benefit of that dayes liberty , go vvhete the Man- 
grave trees gtovy, and gather the batk, of vvhich they make 
ropes ,. vvhich they truck a¥vay. fot other Commodities, as Shirts | 
and Dravvers.. ae | amit 
_In the afternoons on Sumdayes , they have their Miilick , which 
is of Kettle drumis, and thofe of feveral fizes; upon the eft the 
beftMufitian playes, andthe other come in as Chorafles : the drumall 
taen. know, has But one tone 5, and therefore variety of tunes have little 
to doin this mufick 5 and yet fo ftrangely they varie thei¢ time, as “tis 
| a pleafure to the mioft curious edrs,, and it was to me one of the ftran- 
| gelt noifesthat ever [heard rhade of on€ tones and if they had the 
variety oftune, which gives the greater {Cope in Mufick, as they have 
= oftime, they would do wondetsin that Art. Andif I had not faln 
fick before my coming away, at leaft feven months in one fick« 
| hefs,, I had given them fome hints of times, which beng under: 
ftood, would have ferv’d asa great addition to theit 3 
fot time without tune , is not an eighth part of the Science of 
Mulick. LaTE. 
I found Aacow vety apt for it of hithfelf, and otie day coming 
into the houfe, (which none of the Negroes ufe to do, unlefs an Off 
cer, as he was,) he found me playing on a Theorbo , ape finging to 
|: it; which he hearkened very attetttively to; and when I hdd done; 
he tcok the Theorbo in his hand, and ftrook one ftring, ftopping it by 
degrees uponevery fret, and finding the notes to yarie,. till it came to 
the body of the inftrument ; and that the nearer the body of thein- 
. {trument 
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