of the Ifland of Barbadoes. 107 



us, for what with the heat andmoifture of the aire, it is all drawn out, 

 as by my own experience I found it to be moft true, though I lapp'd 

 them clofeupin papers, and put them in drawers of a Cabinet, where 

 no aire could find paflage, they were fo clofe^and forPaftiils, they loft 

 both their (mell and tafte. 



As for Mufick, and (iich founds as pleafe the ear, they wilh fome 

 (upplies may come from England^ both for Inftruments and voy- 

 ces 3 to delight that fenfe , that fometimes when they are tir'd out 

 with their labour, they may have fome refrelhment by their ears, and 

 to that end, they had a purpofe to (end for the Mufick, that were 

 wont to play at the Black^Fryars^zxxA to allow them a competent (ala- 

 ry , to make them live as happily there, as they had done in England: 

 And had not extream weaknefs, by a miferable long ficknefi, made 

 mcuncapable of any undertaking, they had employed me in the bu- 

 fineft, as the likelieft to prevail with thofe men, whofe perfons and 

 qualities were well known to me in England. And though I found at 

 Barbadoes fome who had mufical minds s yet, I found others, whole? 

 fouls were fo fixt upon , and fo riveted to the earth, and the profits 

 thatarife out of it,as their fouls were lifted no higher^ and thole men 

 think, and have been heard to lay, that three whip-lawes, going all 

 at once in a Frame or Pit, is the beft and fweeteft mufick that can en- 

 ter their ears j and to hear a Cow of their own low, or an Affinigo 

 bray, no found can pleafo them better. But theie mens fouls were ne- 

 ver lifted up fo high, as to hear the mufick of the Sphcars, nor to be 

 judges of that Science, as 'tis pradifcd here on earth, and therefore we 

 will leave them to their own earthly delights. 



For the fenfo of feeling, it can be apply ed but two way es, either in 

 doing or folFering 5 the poor Negres and Chriftian forvants find it 

 perfedlyupon their heads and fhoulders, by the hands of their fovere 

 Overieers, fo that little pleafure is given the fenfe, by this coercive 

 kind offeeling,morethen a plaifter for a broken Pate^ but, this is but 

 a paffive kind of feeling; But take it in the higheft, and moftaftive 

 way it can be applyed, which is upon the skins of women, and they 

 are fo fweaty and clammy , as the hand cannot pafTe over, without 

 being glued and cemented inthe paflage or motionjand by that means, 

 little pleafore is given to, or received by the agent or the patient: 

 and therefore if this fenfe be neither pleafed in doing nor fiifFering, we 

 may declme it asufolels in a Country, where down of Swans, or wool 



Now for the fonte of Tafting,! do confels, it receives a more home 

 latisfaftion, then all the reft, by reafon of the fiuits that grow there, 

 fo that the Epicure cannot be deceived, if he take a long journy to 

 pleafo his palate, finding all excellent taftes the world has, comprehen- 

 ded in onefingle fruit, the Pine. And would not any Prince be con- 

 tent to reduce his bafecoync, into Ingots of pure gold> And fo much 

 (ball (erve touching the Barbadoes. 



Some men I have known in England^whott bodies are fo ftrong and 

 able to endure cold, as no weather fits them fo well as froft and foowj 

 (uch Iron bodies would be fit for a Plantation in Rujjia : For, there is 

 notraceing Hares under theLine,nor Aiding on the Ice under either 



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