6o Artificers, Butchers,^ See. 
one another from their Hammocks, and 
will hold long Conferences thus in the 
Streets : But then their two Slaves who 
carry the Hammock have each a ftrong 
well-made Staff, with a fine Iron Fork at 
the upper end, and a fliarp Iron below, 
like the Reft for a Musket, which they 
flick faft in the Ground, and let the Pole 
or Bambo of the Hammock reft upon 
them , till their Mafters Bufinefs or the 
Complement is over. There is fcarce a 
Man of any fafhion, efpecially a Woman, 
will pafs the Streets but fo carried in a 
Hammock. The chief Mechanick Traders 
here, arc Smiths, Hatters, Shoemakers, 
Tanners, Sawyers, Carpenters, Coopers, 
&c. Here are alfo Taylors, Butchers, d"<r. 
which laft kill the Bullocks very dexre- 
roufly, flicking them at one Blow with a 
fharp-pointed Knife in. the Nape of the 
Neck, having firft drawn them clofe to a 
Rail ; but they drefs them very flovenly. 
It being Lent when I came hither there 
was no buying any Flefh till Eajler-Eve, 
when a great number of Bullocks were 
kill’d at once in the Slaughter-houfes with- 
in the Town , Men , Women and 
Children flocking thither with great Joy 
to buy, and a multitude of Dogs, almoft 
ftarv’d, following them ; for whom the 
Meat feem’d fitteft, it was lb Lean. All 
thefe Trades- rnen buy Nep’o\ and train 
them 
