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(which is poifonous) done here with Engines, and 

 then the Negroe Women, upon a rough Stone, rub 

 it into a granulated Flower, reierved in their Hou- 

 les, either to boil, as we do our Wheat, arid is a 

 hearty Food for the Slaves^ or make it into a 

 Bread, fine, white, and well tailed, for themfelves. 

 One tiling worth taking Notice Tihout Manyoco in this 

 Ifland, is, that the Woods abound with a wild poi- 

 fonous and more mortiferoMs Sort, which fometimes 

 Men, unskilled in the Preparation of it, feed on to 

 their Deftruftion : This the MilEonaries affured me 

 they often experimented in their Hogs, and belie- 

 ved we did in the Mortality of our Sailors, 



Indian Corn^ is likewife as well as the 'Earme de 

 jMmyoco and Rice, the common Viftualling of our 

 Slave Ships, and is afforded here at looo Heads for 

 two Dollars. This Corn grows eight or nine Foot 

 high, on a hard Reed or Stick, fliooting forth at e- 

 very fix Inches Heighth, fome long Leaves it has 

 always an Ear, or rather Head, at top, of, perhaps, 

 4C0 Fold Increafe ^ and often two, three, or more, 

 Midway. 



Here are fbme Tamarind Trees another called 

 CoU^ whole Fruit, or Nut (about twice the Bigneis 

 of a Cheftnut, and bitter) is chewed by the Vor- 

 titgueTie^ to give a fweet Guft to their Water which 

 they drink but above all, I was fliewn the Bark of 

 one (whole Name I do not know J gravely affirm'd 

 to have a peculiar Property of enlarging the Virile 

 Member ^ I am not fond of fjch Conceits, nor be- 

 lieve it \xi the Power of any Vegetables, but muft 

 acknowledge, I have feen Sights of this kind among 

 the Negroes very extraordinary yet, that there 

 may be no Wiihes among the Ladies for the Impor- 

 tatiqn of this Bark, I muft acquaint them, that 

 they are found to grow lefs merry, as they encreafe 

 ill Bulk. I had like to have forgot their Cinnamon 

 ^rees ^ there is only one Walk of them, and is the 



