of the Ifldnd of Barhsidots. 



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j Women ofher own Country, where the Chriftian Icrvants , both men 

 i And women came 5 and being very great , and that her time was come 

 I to be delivered J loath to fliU in labour before the men, walk'd down 

 I toa Woodjin which wasa Pond of water, and thereby the fide of the 

 I Pond, brought her lelf a bed 5 and prefently wafhing her Child in fome 

 \ of the water of the Pond, lap 'd it up in fuch rags , as (he had begg'd 

 j of the Chriftians 5 and in three hours time came home, with her Child 

 in her arms, a lufty Boy, frolick and lively. 



I This h7cha}7 dv/cliing near the Sea-coaft, upon the Main , an EngUJh 

 I (hip put in to a Bay, and fent fome of her men a fhoar , to try what 

 vidualsor water they could find, for in fome diflrels they were : But 

 the Indian i perceiving them to go up fofar into the Country, as they 

 were fure they could not make a fafe retreat, intercepted them in their 

 rcturn,and fell upon them,chafing them into a Wood jand being difper- 

 j fed there, fomle were taken,and fomekilfd : but a young man amongfi: 

 I them ftragling fi-omthe reft, was met by this /W/^w Maid, who upon 

 t the firft fight fell in love with him, and hid him clofe from her Country- 

 j men (the Indians^ in a Cave, and there fed him, till they could lafcly 

 go down to the flioar, where the Qiip lay at anchor,expeding the return 

 of their friends. But at laft, feeing them upon the fhoar, lent thelong- 

 Boat for them, took them aboard, and brought them away. But the 

 youth, when he came ^^m^LY mthc Barb adoes^ forgot the kindnefs of 

 the poor maid, that had ventured her life for his lafety, and fold her 

 for a (lave, who was as free born as he ; And fo poor Turico for her love, 

 luft her liberty. 



Now for theMaftcrs, I have yet faid but little, nor am able to fay 

 half of what they deferve. They are men of great abilities and parts , 

 otherwilc they could not go through, with fuch great works as they 

 undertake, the managing of one of their Plantations, being a work 

 of (uch a latitude, as will require a very good head-peece, to put in 

 i order, and continue it fo. 



I can name a Planter there, that feeds daily two hundred mouths, 

 and keeps them in fuch order, as there are no mutinies amongfi them 5 

 and yet of fevcral nations. All thefe are to be employed in their feve- 

 ral abilities, fo as no one be idle. Thefirfi: workto be confidered, is 

 Weeding, forunlefs that be done, allelfe (and the Planter too) will 

 be undone , and if that be negleded but a little time, it will be a hard 

 matter to recover it again, fofift: will the weeds grow there. But the 

 ground being kept clean, tis fit to bear any thing that Country will 

 afford. After weeding comes Planting, and they account two feafons 

 in the year befi. and that is, May and Noven/hcr--, but Canes are to be 

 planted at all times, thatthey may conle in, one field after another 5 

 otherwifc, the work will fi:and flill. And commonly they have in a 

 field that is planted together, at one time, ten or a dozen acres. This 

 Work of planting and weeding , the Mafter himfcif is to fee done, 

 unlets he have a very trufiiy and able Overfoer 5 and without fuch a 

 one, he will have too much to do. The next thing hcis to confider , 

 is the Ingenio, and what belongs to that 5 as , the Ingenio it felf , 

 which is the Primur/z Jliobile of the whole work, the Boyling-houle, 

 with the Coppers and Furnaces, the Filling room, the Still-houfe, 



