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j is cream bdyl'dto a height, with yolk of eggs,and {eafon'd withfiigar, 

 and fpice. Jelly which we make oftheflelh of young pigs, calves feet, 

 I and a cock, and is excellent good, but muftprefently be eaten, for it 

 1 will not laft. Cream alone, and fonle done feveral wayes, of which 

 I there is great variety, having Lemons, Lymes, and Oranges ready at 

 hand^ and fome wherein we put Plantines, Gnavers and Bonarioes, 

 ftew'djOr preferv'd with fiigar, and the fame fruits al(b preferv'd and 

 put in diflies by themfeIves,without Cream ; and for a whetftoncjto pull 

 on a cup of wine, we have dryed Neats tongues, brought from neW and 

 old Eno^land j and from Holland^ Weftfhalia Bacon, and Cayiarejas alfo 

 f>ickrci Herring^and Macquerel, which we have from new EugUnd^zwd. 

 from Virginia Botargo^ of which fort I have eaten the beft at Gdlld- 

 nQ\ Draxes that ever Itafted. 



The fruits that this Ifland affords, I have already nanied,and there- 

 fore it will be needlefs to name them twice ^ you may take your choice, 

 whether you will have them let on the Table before or ifter meat 5 

 they ufe as they do in Italy ^ to eat them before meat. 



The viduals brought from forraign parts are thefe. Beef which vt^e 

 have from Holland^ from Old and New England jVirgima^ind. fbriie frOnI 

 Rujfia 5 and yet comes to us fweet. Pork frOm all thefe places, with the 

 molt forts of fait filh;as Ling,Haberdine, Cod, poor-John,pickled Mac- 

 querels^pickled Herrings,aU very good. Sturgeon from New H«g/^»6/, 

 but fb ill Cook'd,as 'tis hardly to be eaten^for they want the skil both of 

 boy ling and feafbning itjthey firft over-boy 1 it,and next over-falt it,and 

 fbthe fiOi being over tender by boyling, the 4lt frets and eats updn it 

 all the way 5 for when we come to open it, being carried far froni the 

 Bridge^and lliakeninthe carriage.-there is fcarcea whole piece,butthe 

 Sturgeon and pickle all in a ma{h,Sc fb vehemently fait, as I could never 

 eat any of it, but at CollOnel^F^/Zr^w^/f Plantation it is lefsbrokeni 



Pickled Turtle, we have from the Leeward Iflands, but fo uncleanly 

 ordered, as wt could hardly find in our hearts to eat it 5 for they 

 gather the Salt and Sand together, for haft, upon the Ifland whete it 

 is taken up^ as 5 though we wafh it never fb well, yet the grit cracks in 

 our teeth j it has a tafte being faked, almoft as ill as puffins , Which we 

 have froni the ifles of Silly ^ but this kind of food, is only for fervants 5 

 fbrrietimes the Negroes get a little, but feldome the One or the other did 

 eat any bone meat, at bur firft coming thither. 



But now at riiy coming away from thence, it was much Better'd, for 

 by the care and good Husbandry of the Planters, there was grea- 

 ter plenty, both of the victuals they were wont to eat, as Potatoes, 

 Bouavift, Loblolly, as alfbofthe bone meat, viz.^ Pork, faltFifh, and 

 powder'd beef, which came thither by fea, froni forraign parts, in fo 

 much as the Negroes Were allowed each man two IVfecqueirels d week, 

 and every woman one, which Were given out to them on Saturday 

 in the evening, after they had their allowarice of Plantines, Which was 

 every one a large bunch, or two little ones, to fervethem for a weeks 

 pi:ovifion 5 and if any cattle dyed by niifchance, or by any difeafe the 

 fervants eat the bodies, and the Negm/ the skins, head, and intrails 

 which was divided atiiOngft them by the Overfeers 3 Or if any horfe, 

 than the whole bodiesOf them were diftributed amongft the Negroes, 

 and that they thought a high feaft , with "which never pdbr fouls 

 were more contented 5 and the drink to the fervants with this dye t, 



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