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•here they are waftrM, the more lively will the printed and painted colours ap- 

 >ar It is eafy to diftinguifh between the printed and the painted Calicuts ; 

 Kd between the neatnefs of the work : but for the finenefs and other qua- 

 Jities, they are not ib eafily difcem'd j and therefore the Broaker muft be more 

 careful. 



Cheats in Cotton. 



THE cheat in the weight is twofold. The firft, by laying them in a moift 

 place ; and thruftingm the middle of every Skain fomething to add to the 

 weight. The (econd, in not giving good weight when the Broaker receives it 

 from the Workman, or Merchant that delivers it. 



There is but one cheat in the quality, that is by putting three or four Skains, 

 of a coarfer Commodity than that which is uppermoit, into one Mein. 

 Which in a great quantity mounts high ; for there are fbme Cottons that 

 are worth an hunder'd Crowns the Mvin. Thcie two cheats being often 

 us'd by the Holland- Company , there is no way but to weigh your Com- 

 modity in the prefence of the Dm ^-Commander, and his Councel, and to 

 examine every Mein, Skain by Skain. When this is done, they who .are 

 order'd to be at this examination, are obligM t8 fix to every Bale a ticket 

 of the weight and quality : for if there be a faileur, they who fix the ticket 

 are engag'd to make good what is wanting. 



Deceits in Indigo i 



T Have told you, that when the Work- men have made up the Indigo-Pafte into 

 I lumps, with their ringers dipt in Oil, they lay them in the Sun a drying. Now 

 tlrofc that have a defign to cheat the Merchants, dry them in the (and, to the end 

 that the (and flicking to the Indigo, fhould encreaic the weight. Sometimes they 

 lay up their Pafte in moilt places, which makes it give, and confequently renders 

 it more heavy. But if the Governour of the place diicovers the cheat, he makes 

 them (everely pay fur it : and the belt way of difcovery is to bum (ome pieces of 

 Indigo, for the fand will remain. 



Indian Broaker s. 



THE Broakers are as it were the Matters of the /«*U»Families 5 for they have 

 all Goods at their dilj>olal. The Work-men choofe the moft aged and moft 

 experiene'd, who are to endeavor equal advantages for the whole Tribe they under- 

 take for. Every evening that they return from their bulmeis,and that, according to 

 thecuirom of the Indians, who make no Supper?, they have eaten fome little 

 piece of fweet-meat, and drank a glals of water, the cldeft of the Tribe meet at 

 the Broafeer's Houie, who gives them an account of what he has done that day, 

 and then they confide what he is to do next. Above all things, they caution him 

 to look to his hits, and to cheat, rather than be cheated. 



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