%%6 The 7)iftreffes and ddventures 

 Men wear Drawers, and paint their Bodies, 

 and fometimes one Side of their Faces red. 

 They are generally very exaft and nice in 

 their Houfes, and Manner of Eating, nor 

 will they drink after each other in the' fame 

 Cup or Calabafh, or ufe one twice them- 

 felves without waftiing, praftifing many other 

 Ceremonies with a more refin'd Air, than 

 could be expefted from the Natives on this 

 Side the Globe. Now I was furprized^ that 

 a People of fuch Decorum, and withal both 

 quiet and cleanly in their Nature, could 

 difpenfe with the Noife and Stench of fuch 

 a Number of Hogs, feeding under the 

 Rooms where they llept, having nothing be- 

 tween them but an open-work'd Floor laid 

 with Bamboe Cane 5 but they told me, that 

 they were obliged to take this Method to 

 fright the Muskitoes from their Houfes, who 

 cannot endure the Noife nor Steam of Hogs, 

 by which Means they were freed from that 

 troublefome Infed, 



During my Refidence at the Gover- 

 nor's Houfe, and at a Time when I Jay 

 dangerouffy ill of a Fever, came a Company 

 pf roving Indians into the Town, and plun-> 



der'd 



