A Voyage to 



In the fame Place where the Tree was, I alfo faw a 

 Sugar Cane Garden : The Canes from which they prefs 

 the Juice to extraft that agreeable Salt, are fufficiently 

 knpwn by all Men, as is the Manner of making it; but 

 the Form of the Mill they ufe to bruize- them, being 

 in a Manner new to me^and the Knowledge of Machines 

 belonging to my Profeffion, I thought fit to tdke the Pro- 

 portions. This Mill is compofed of three Rollers of Brafs, 

 the Middlemoft of which turns the two others, by means 

 of the caft Nuts of the fame Piece, that hitch one within 

 another. Thafe Rollers, which turn contrary Ways, 

 pinch the Canes put between them, and draw them in at 

 the fame time, crufhing them, fo.that all the Juice runs out 

 into a Trough, which conveys it into the Cauldrons. There 

 it is three times boil'd, taking great Care to skim it, and 

 to put Juice of Lemon and other Ingredients to it; and 

 when it is fufficiently boil'd, they put it into Pots -of a 

 Conical Figure cut fhort, where it congeals into very 

 brown Clods. To refine and whiten it, they only cover 

 it with Earth tempered with Water, 4 or 5 Inches thick, 

 and kept frefli by watering it every Day. That Moifture 

 makes the fineft Juice run, which drops by Degrees, and 

 the reft congeals into a white Loaf. They refine and 

 whiten it in the fame manner in Brafil, with Clay fteep'd, 

 thewhiteftof which is thebeftj but they muft firft fcrape 

 off a hard Film, that grows over the Pot, and would 

 hinder the Water from penetrating through it. Laftly, the 

 Refiners in France make it white and hard by the help of 

 Lime and Alom. 



They alfo in the Vale ofHilo fow fome little Corn and 

 Herbs, but much more Trefoil, whereof there is a great 

 Confumption, when any Ships are in the Road, becaufe 

 the Merchants, who come from feveral remote Parts, are 

 forced to bring thither a great Number of Mules,"*to change 

 thofe that are loaden, for fear left tiring in Defart Places 

 they fliould die by the way, when they are not able to 

 Jceep up with the others. They divide the Gangs of Mules, 



which 



