19^ OfCapU HoWEL Da^IS. 



for raifing of Tents, Watering, and hawling the 

 Seam the whole protefted by a Fort, or rather 

 Battery, of a dozen Guns on the Larboard-Side. 

 At the Head of the Bay Hands the Town, about a 

 Mile from the anchoring Place, and confifts of two 

 or three regular Streets, of wooden built Hpufes, 

 where the Governor and chief Men of the Ifland 

 refide. Here the Water grows fhallow for a con- 

 fiderable Diftance, and the Natives, at every Ebb, 

 (having before encompalTed every convenient Angle 

 with a Rife of Stones, fbmething like Weirs in Eng- 

 laTid) reibrt for catching of Filh, which, with them, 

 is a daily Diverfion, as well as Subfiftance, 500 at- 

 tending with Sticks and wicker Baskets and if they 

 cannot dip them with one Hand, they knock them 

 down with the other. The Tides rile regularly 6 

 Foot in the Harbour, and yet not half that Heighth 

 without the Capes that make the Bay. 



Here are conftantly two Miilionaries, xvho are 

 lent for fix Years to inculcate the Chriftian Prin- 

 ciples, and more efpecially attend the Converlion 

 of the Negroes • the prefent are Venetians^ inge- 

 nious Men, who leem to defpife the loofe Morals 

 and Behaviour of the Seculars,' and complain of 

 them as of the Slav^es, nt Color Mores funt nigri. They 

 have a n^at Coi^ventual-Houfe and a Garden appro- 

 priated, which, by their own Induftry and Labour, 

 laot only thrives ^with the feveral Natives of the 

 Soil, but many Exoticks and Curiofities. A Fruit 

 in particular, larger than a Chefnut, yellow, con- 

 taining two Stones, with a Pulp, or clammy Sub- 

 jftance about them, which, when fuck'd, exceeds in 

 Sweetnefs, Sugar or Honey, and has this Property 

 beyond them, of giving a fweet Tafte to every Li- 

 quid you fwallow for the whole Evening after. The 

 only Plague infefting the Garden, is a Vermin caHed 

 Land-Crabs, in vaft Numbers, of a bright red Co- 

 lour, (in other Refpeds like the Sea ones) which 



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