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which they dry with a gentle Fire upon a 

 Barbecue or Grate of Sticks, made like a 

 Grid-iron. This lump they keep for ufe, 

 breaking off a piece of it when they .pleafe, 

 and maftung it in Water for Miflaw, They 

 carry a lump of Plantain with them for 

 this end when ever they travel ^ especially 

 into places where they can't hope to get 

 ripe Plantains, tho' they prefer the dried 

 ones. Green and half ripe ones they eat 

 inftead of Bread with Flelh $ but they boil 

 them firft. They do the fame with their 

 Yams and Potato's, which they fometimes 

 roaft 3 as alfo the Caffava-root : And their 

 Plantations are never without fome or other 

 of thefe, and ufually in good plenty 5 e- 

 fpecially the old Plantations. 



I faw no Herbs or Sallading in their 

 Plantations, neither did I ever fee them 

 eat any kind of Herbs. But they never 

 forget to have in their Plantations fome of 

 their beloved Pepper $ and they ufually are 

 pretty well ftor'd with Pine-Apples, which 

 they have very plentiful, and eat of them 

 every Day. 



women The Men firft clear the Plantations, and 

 planters. fc r j n g t ^ cm j nto orc ier, b ut fa Women 



have all the trouble of them afterwards 5 

 the digging, howing, planting, plucking 

 the Maiz, and fetting Yams, and every 

 thing of Hushandry, is left to them, but 

 pnly the cutting down Trees, or fuch 



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