of the I fldnd of haxhdidots. 



j What their other opinions are in matter of Religion^ I know not 5] 

 j but certainly, they are not altogether of the fed of the Saddnccs : 

 I For, they believe a Refurredion , and that they (hall go into their 

 I own Countrey again, and have their youth renewed. And lodging this 

 opinion in their hearts, they make it an ordinary pradice, upon 

 any great fright, or threatning of their Mafters, to hang them- 

 fclvcs. " ^ 



But CoIIoneUr<?/r<?W having loft three or four of his beft Nc^r^^ei 

 this way, and in a very little time, cauled one of their heads to be cut 

 off, and fet upon a pole a dozen foot high, and having done that , 

 caufed all his Negroes to come forth, and march round about this head, 

 and bid them look on it, whether this were not the head of fiich 

 an one that hang'd hinifclf Which they acknowledging, he then told 

 them, That they were in a main errour, in thinking they went into 

 their own Countrcys, after they were dead 5 for , this mans head was 

 here, as they all were witncilesof j and how was it poffible, the body 

 could go without ahead. Being convinced by this ^d, yet lively Ipe- 

 dacle, they changed their opinions ^ and after that, no tnore hanged 

 themlelves. 



When they are fick, there are two reniedies that cure them 5 the 

 one, an outward, the other, an inward medicine. The outward me- 

 dicine is a thing they call Negr(?-<y/e , and 'tis made in Barhary, yellow 

 it is as Bees wax, but foft as butter. When they feel themlelvesill, 

 they call for fome of that, and annoint their bodies, as their breafts, 

 bellies, and fides, and in two day es they are perfedly well. But this 

 does thegreateft cures upon fuch , as have bruiles or ftrains in their 

 bodies. The inward medicine is taken, when they find any weaknels 

 or decay in their fpirits and ftomachs, and then a dram or two of I^jI/- 

 devil revives and conlforts them much. 



I have been very ftrid, in obferving the (hapes ofthefe people 3 and 

 for the men, they are very well timber d, that is, broad between the 

 (houlderSjfull breafted, well fiUetted, and clean leg'd and may hold 

 good with Albert Dnrers rules, who allowes trvice the length of the head^ 

 to the breadth of the fhoulders , and twice the length of the face^ta the 

 breadth of the hips, and according to this rule thefe men are fhap'd. 

 But the women not ^ for the lame great Mafter of Proportions , allowes 

 to each woman, twice the length of the face to the breadth of the 

 (boulders, and twice the length of hero Vv'n head to the breadth of the 

 hips. And in that, thcfc women are faulty 5 for I have feen very few 

 ofthem, whofe hips have been broader than their Qioulders, tmlels 

 they have been very fat. The young Maids have ordinarily very 

 large breafts, which ftand ftrutting out fo hard and firm, as no lea- 

 ping, jumping, orftirring , will caufe them to (hake any more, than 

 the brawns of their arms. But when they come to be did, and have 

 had five or fix Children, their breafts hang down below their Navels, 

 fo that when they ftoofp at their common work of weeding, they hang 

 almoftdown to the ground, that at a diftance, you would think they 

 had fix legs : And the reafon of this is, they tye the cloaths about 

 their Children's backs , which comes upon their breafts , which by 

 prefilng very hard^ caulcs them to heng down to that length. Their 



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