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evening', wherewith their women wafii and rub their bodies before 
' they are bedded thefirft time/romaperfuafion that it raal^eth frtiic- 
full. 
They have a very barbarous cuftomeamongft them, to kill chofe 
of their children, that are born with the leaft monftroficy or defeft 
in any of their limbs 3 as alfo one of fuch twins, as are born of 
ditferent fexes, viz,, that which they like worft ; though, when 
twins are of one and the fame fexe, they preferve them both alive. 
Their Women brought to bed, are generally able to go abroad 
the fecond or third day, and to betake themfelves to their ordina- 
ry work and labour again. They never fvvadle their children, hut 
loofely put about them a piece of iinnen-cioth, and fo lay them 
upon a ftraw-raatt to the mother. 
Whacconcernstheiriii/iW^r/, they have chiefly two forts of 
Corn, whichour Author calls the great and fmali ikfi/to, but by 
his dcfcription feems to be the fame with Turky-wheat ; of which 
one grain oft^n produces two or three ears of Corn, which not fei- 
dom yield five or fix hundred grains. They ufe no Plow, but a 
Mattock, forfowing, making therewith a furrow of three or four 
fingers deep with one hand, and fetching the feed out of a little 
Tick, tyed about their body, with the other. And inftead of a 
Sith they make ufe of a great knife. 
Thejuyceof their Palm-trees is very agreeable both to the taft 
and fmell,vv^hen drunk frefii ; and grows fo (Irong by /landing but 
one night, that it will foon intoxicate. 'Tis ufed, when recent, 
againflObftruftions, it being then confiderably laxative, and 'cis 
likewifefo very diuretique, that very few among the Blacks are 
afHided with the Stone or Gravel. Befides, it caufes nohead-acr, 
, though it be drunk plentifully.There is twofjrtsof them,of which 
they county the one Male, the other Female, this bearing a fruit re- 
fembling peeled Plums, and yielding an Oyl by exprcffion ; the 
/^^r bearing no fruit at all. The Oyl is both medicinal, efculenr, 
and ferving for Lamps. The trunk of this Tree is good fewel 5 the 
branches ferving for the covering of their houfes; the Leaves for 
thred to few their cloaths withal. 
Their chief and beft fruits are,the Banamas^ Eaccofes, E^jamcs, 
Fata' t as ^ A^gwivre^ CrojjeyTurreba^ Aduba^Malaguette^ Col^^Cocos.^ 
Brambas, Jmjfas, 
Th^ Banamas gro\^ on a Tree having no wood at all, but only 
mcer leaves, which twift together, f.meiimes to a ftem of a German 
Ell thick, which when 'tis grown up two or three fuch Ells high, it 
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