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nfual beverage; they very feldom drank water, and indeed 
fo very little of any thing, that it was a matter of furprize to 
our people, who conftantly obferved it; yet on vifits, or oc- 
caftonal rejoicings, they appeared to relifh their fweet drink, 
and fherbet, which latter had only the addition of fome juice 
of orange. 
They rofe in general at day-light, and as foon as they were 
up, both men and women went to bathe in frefh water: they 
had feparate bathing-places; and every man, whofe bulinefs 
led him near thofe appropriated to the women, was obliged 
to make fome particular halloo, which, if anfwered by a fe- 
male voice, he could not go on, but either turned another 
way, or waited till the women who were bathing had left the 
water. 
About eight o’clock was their hour of breakfafting; after 
which, if there was any council to be held, the King met his 
Chiefs, and the common people went to their different occu¬ 
pations ; at noon they dined; and fupped foon after fun- 
fet, ufually retiring to reft tw T o hours after. Though this 
was their common w'ay of living, yet on occafions of public 
rejoicing or feftivity, they would dance the greateft part of 
the night. 
They had no method, that was obferved, of meafuring 
time but by the height of the fun.—Their feafons were divided 
into the wet and dry, as in other tropical countries. They 
had 
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