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of Indian Corn and Water boiled, the manner of 

 it is thus, a parcel of Old Women chew the Corn, 

 and then drop it into a Calabajh> from whence they 

 put it to boil, and fo drink it. 



On the 1 6th Don Pedro returned, with our 

 Captains, and brought feveral of his Wives and 

 Grandees to attend him, with 14 Indians , which 

 were to ferve for Pilots up the River in our Cannes ; 

 one of the V/omen was Pedro's Wife, who was 

 very richly dreft, with Corals, and other Stones, 

 which were put on Strings, round her Hands, 

 Arms, Legs, and Neck, to a very great value : I 

 was informed by Captain Chriftian that he had 

 feveral Wives more, and that he had had a Child 

 by one of his own Daughters, and that that is very 

 common among them \ it is their way, that when- 

 ever they Marry their Daughters, that the Father 

 (if able) lies with them firft, if fhe is a Maid, and 

 if the Father is very Old, and paft his Labour, 

 then the Eldeft Son does that Office, and the next 

 day all his and her Friends meet, and put them to- 

 gether! : This Captain Chrifiian is very well acquain- 

 ted with all their Methods, for he lived among them 

 fome Years, when he was out a Roving on the Ac- 

 county as the Jamaica Men call it, but it is downright 

 Pirating, they making their own Commiflions on 

 the Capftane. 



This done we fet Sail, and on the 19th arrived 

 near the Barkadeer$ y or the place of landing, the 

 River we went up was one of the pleafanteft that 

 ever I was in, being very broad, and deep enough 

 for any Ship to ride in, if they could get over the 

 Bar that lies at the. Mouth of it r , there were very 

 pleafant Trees on both fides, and all manner of 

 Fifti and Fowl in it ; Parrots were as plenty here as 

 Sparrows are at a Farmer's Barn Door in England 

 at Thrafhing time, and Monkeys like Flocks of 

 Sheep on a Common^ but we durft not fire for fear 



of 



