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TRAVELS IK 
This is their common plantation, and the whole 
town plant in one vaft field together ; but yet the 
part or fhare of every individual family or habita- 
tion, is feparated from the next adjoining, by a 
narrow ftrip, or verge of grafs, or any other natural 
or artificial boundary. 
In the fpring, the ground being already pre- 
pared on one and the fame day, early in the morn- 
ing, the whole town is fummoned, by the found of 
a conch fhell, from the mouth of the overfeer, to 
meet at the public fquare, whither the people re- 
pair with their hoes and axes ; and from thence pro- 
ceed to their plantation, where they begin to plant* 
not every one in his own little diftrid, affigned and 
laid out, but the whole community united begins 
on one certain part of the field, where they plant on 
until finiihed 3 and when their rifing crops are ready 
for drefiing and cleanfing 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 affemble, and every man carries off the fruits 
of his labour, from the part firft allotted to him, 
which he depofits in his own granary 5 which is 
individually his own. But previous to their carry- 
ing off their crops from the field, there is a large 
crib or granary, eredted 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 lb 
choofes: this in appearance feems a tribute or 
revenue to the mico; but in fad: is defigned for 
another purpofe, 1. e. that of a public treafuryi 
fupplied by a few and voluntary contributions, 
and to which every citizen has the right of free 
and 
