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again, they proceed in like manner, and are at 

 Gape Lofez. in Olhbery at Angola in November ^ &c. 



The Manner of living among the Portuguez^e here 

 is, with the utmoft Frugality and Temperance, e- 

 ven to Penury and Starlring • a familiar Inftance of 

 Proof is, in the Voracity of their Dogs, who find- 

 ing fuch clean Cupboards at home, are wild in a 

 Planner with Hunger, and tare up the Graves of 

 the Dead for Food, as I have often leen : They 

 themfelves are lean with Covetoufiiefs, and that 

 Chriftian Vertue, which is often the Refult of ity 

 Seifdenyal ; and would train up their Cattle in the 

 lame way, oould they fetch as much Money, or 

 had not they their Provifioa more immediately of 

 Providence. The beft of them (excepting the Go- 

 vernor now and then) neither pay nor receive any 

 Vifits of Efcapade or Recreation ; they meet and 

 fit down ac each others Doors in the Street every 

 Evening, and as few of them, in fo imall an Ifland, 

 can have their Plantations at any greater Diftance, 

 than that they may lee it every Day if they will, 

 fo the Subjeft of their Talk is moftly how Affairs 

 went there, with their Negroes, or their Ground, 

 Jlnd then part with one another innocently, but 

 empty, 



The Negroes have yet no hard Duty with them, • 

 they are rather Kappy in Slavery • for as their Food 

 15 chiefly Vegetables, that could no way elfe be ex- 

 pended, there is no Murmurs bred on that account • 

 and as their Bufinefs is Domeftick, either in the Ser- 

 vices of the Houfe, or in Gardening, Sowing^ 

 or Planting, they have no more than what every 

 Man would prefer for Health and Pleafure ; the 

 %ardeft of their Work is the Carriage of their 

 Pateroons, or their Wives, to and from the Planta-^ 

 tiOns this they do in Hammocks (calfd at Whydah^ 

 Serpentines) flung crofs a Pole, with a Cloath over, 

 to Icreen the Perfon, fo carried, from Sun and 



y/eather. 



