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TRAVJTLS IN 
This is their common plantation, and the whole 
town plant in one vail field together ; but yet the 
part or fhare of every individual family or habita- 
tion, is feparated from the next adjoining, by a 
narrow (trip, or verge of grafs, or any other na- 
tural or artificial boundary. 
In the fpring, the ground being already pre- 
pared, on one and the fame day, early in the 
morning, the whole town is fummoned, by the 
found of a conch mell, from the mouth of the 
overfeer, to meet at the public fquare, whither 
the people repair with their hoes and axes ; and 
from thence proceed to their plantation, where 
they begin to plant, not every one in his own 
little diitric~t, affigned and laid out, but the whole 
community united begins on one certain part of 
the field, where they plant on until finimed ; and 
when their riling crops are ready for dreifing and 
cleanfmg, they proceed after the fame order, and 
fo on day after day, until the crop is laid by for 
ripening. After the feaft of the bulk is over, and 
all the grain is ripe, the whole town again affem- 
ble, and every man carries off the fruits of his 
labour, from the part fir ft allotted to him, which 
he depofits in his own granary ; which is indivi- 
dually his own. But previous to their carrying off 
their crops from the field,, there is a large crib or 
granary, erected in the plantation, which is called 
the king's crib ; and to this each family carries and 
depofits a certain quantity, according to his ability 
or inclination, or none at all if he fo choofes : 
this in appearance feems a tribute or revenue to the 
mico ; but in fact is defigned for another purpofe, 
i. e. that of a public treafury, fupplied by a few 
and voluntary contributions, and to which every 
citizen has the right of free and equal accefs, when 
