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where they are wafh'd, the more lively will the printed and painted colours ap- 

 pear. It is eafy to diftinguifh between the printed and the painted Calicuts j 

 and between the neatnels of the work : but for the finçnels and other qua- 

 lities, they are not fo ealily difcern'd ; and therefore the Broaker muft be more 

 careful. 



Cheats in Cotton. 



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

 place ; and thrufting in the middle of every Skain fomething to add to the 

 weight. The lecond, 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 uppermoft, into one Mem. 

 Which in a great quantity mounts high } for there are Ibme Cottons that 

 are worth an hunder'd Crowns the Met». Thcfè 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/j-Commander, and his Councel, and to 

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

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

 of the weight and quality : tor if there be a faileur, they Avho fix the ticket 

 are ergag'd to make good what is wanting. 



Deceits in Indigo. 



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

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

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

 that the land Iricking to the Indigo, fhould encreale the weight. Sometimes they 

 lay up their Faite in moift places, which makes it give, and conlequently renders 

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

 them leverely pay for it : and the beft way of difcovery is to burn fome pieces of 

 Indigo, for the land will remain. 



Indian Broaker s ■. 



THE Broakers are as it were the Matters of the iW/Vz>,Families j for they have 

 all Goods at their dilpolal. 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 bulinefs,and that, according to 

 the cuftom of the Indians, who make no Suppers, they have eaten fome little 

 piece of fweet-meat, and drank a glafs of water, the eldeft of the Tribe meet at 

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

 and then they confult 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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