of the Ifland of Barbadoes. 



But very few in the lOand did fb when i was there. | 

 The next to Swincs-flefli ingoodnefi, are TuVkic?, large, fat, and 

 full of gravy. Next to thcni, Pullen or Dunghill-foul : and la!l of all, 

 Mufcovia-Ducks, which being larded with the fat of this Pork, (be- 

 ing feafoned with pepper and (alt) arc an excellent bak'd-meat. All 

 thcfe, with their Eggs and Chickens, we eat. 



Turtle-Dovcs they have of twoforts^ and both very good meat 5 

 but there is a fort of Pidgeonsj which come from the leeward Illands 

 at one time of the year, and it is mSeptember 5 and ftay iiWchrjjimas 1 

 bepaft, and then return again : But very many of them ne'r make re- | 

 turns, to fell news of the good fruit they found there : For, they are j 

 fbfatj and of fuch excellent taftes, as many fowlers kill them, with | 

 guns, upon the trees 5 and fome of them are fb fat, as their weight with | 

 thefall,cau(t's them to burft in pieces. They are good roafted, boyl'd, j 

 or bak'd, but beft cut m halves, and ftewed , to which Cookery, there | 

 needs no liquor, for their own gravy v/ill abundantly ferve to ftew 

 them. 



Rabbets we have, but tame ones, and they have but faint taftes^more 

 like a Chicken than a Rabbet. 



And though they have divers other Birds, which I will ndt forget 

 to recount in their due times, and places yet, none for food for the 

 Table, which is thebulinclsT intend at this prefent. Other flefh-meatj 

 I do not remember. 



Now for fifh, though the Illand ftands as all Iflands do, invironed 

 with the Sea, (and therefore is not like to be unfurnifh'd of thatpro- 

 vifion} yet, the Planters arefo good husbands, and tend their profits 

 fo much, ds they will iiot fpare a Negroes abfence fo long , as to go to 

 the Bridge and fetch it. And the Fifhermen feeing their fifh lye upon 

 their hands, and ftink {Jwhich it will do inlefsthaa fix hours) forbear 

 to go to Sea to take it 5 only fo much as they can have prefent vent 

 for, at the Taverns at the Bridge 5 and thither the Planters come, when 

 they have a mind to feaft themfelves with fifh , to Mr. 'jobfons , or 

 Joan Fullers^ where they have it well dre(s'd , for they were both my 

 Pupils. Butter they feldorh have, that will beat thick, but in ftead 

 of that, we are fain to ulc vinegar and fpice, and much of it fi-yed in 

 oyle, and eaten hot , and fome marinated, and fouc't in pickle, and 

 eaten coldi Collonel Humphrey IP'alrond has the advantage of all the 

 Planters in thclOand , for, having a Plantation near the Sea, he hath 

 of his own a Sain to catch fifh withall, which his own forvants and flaves 

 put out toSca,and, twice or thrice a week, bring home all forts of fuch 

 irhalland great fillies, as arenearthefhoar 5 amongfl which, fome are 

 very large, and excellently well tafted. For, he being a Gentleman, 

 tliat had been bred with much freedom, libcrty,and plenty, in England^ 

 could not fethis mind fo cameftly upon his profit, as to forget his ac- 

 cuftomed lawful pleafiires, but would have his Table well furnifh'd, 

 with all forts of good meat the Land and Sea afforded 5 and as freely 

 bid his friends welcom to it. And I, as the pooreft of his friends, in a 

 lingrihg ficknefs, and neardeath, found fiich a charity with him, as I 

 (hall never forget to pay my thanks for, to the lafl hour of my life 5 and 

 I fhall account it as a great happinels, (if ever it fall in the compafs of 

 my power) to be ferviceableto himor his, as any thing that can befall 

 me in the worlds 



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