282 NARRATIVEOFAN 

 CHAP, fowl, filli, Cayenne pepper, and the young pods of 



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the ocra or althea plant. Pepper-pot is a difh of boiled 

 fifli and capficiim, eaten with roafted plantains. Gangotay 

 is made of dried, and afofoo of green plantains. Acanfa 

 and doquenoo are compofed of the flour of maize, and the 

 latter is eaten with molaffes. His common drink is the 

 limpid ftream, fometimes corrected by a little rum. If 

 he is accidentally wounded or indifpofed, he is cured for 

 nothing ; but it is very feldom he troubles the faculty, 

 being tolerably Ikilled in herbs and fimples, befides fcari- 

 fying and puckering the Ikin, which ferves inftead of 

 bleeding. The inconvenience of vermin he remedies 

 without a comb, by plaiftering up his hair with clay, 

 which being dried on the head, and then waflied with foap 

 and water, makes him clean beyond conception ; his teeth 

 are conftantly kept as w]gj|ite as ivory ; for this purpofe 

 he ufes nothing but a fprig qf orange-tree, bitten at one 

 end, until the fibres refemble a fmall brulh; and no negro, 

 male or female, is to be feen without this little inftru- 

 ment, which has befides the virtue of fweetening the 

 breath. 



So much for his body ; and with rega-rd to his foul, it 

 is feldom troubled with any qualms of confcience, or fear 

 of death, as I have ftated, being firm and unfhaken m 

 what he was taught to believe, which is indeed little, but 

 plain ; and when he is no more, his companions or rela- 

 tions carry him to fome ^rove of orange-lrees, where he 



is, 



