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The fir ft year that a Have is purchafed, 

 he is fupplied with food by his mafter, 

 and is affigned a piece of ground, 

 which on Sundays he clears from the 

 w r ood, and plants with yams, pi an tins, 

 edda's, caffava, ocro's, &c. but efpecially 

 the former, which produce ten thou- 

 fand pounds per acre. When the year 

 is expired he recurrs to his planting- 

 ground for his future provifion, which 

 he is ever after to keep fupplied with 

 a fufficient ftock for his fuftenance, for 

 which he is allowed every Sunday 

 only , receiving, however, from his 

 matter a weekly allowance of dried fifh, 

 to the amount of a pound and an half, 

 which is all that his mafter contri- 

 butes towards his food. The females 

 receive the fame treatment, and the 

 drink of both is nothing but water $ 

 yet from this water, and thefe farina- 

 ceous and efculent vegetables, with a 

 morfel of dried fillip thefe people derive 



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