33* AN ACCOUNT OF; 
As induftry, however zealous, muff be flow in produ¬ 
cing its purpofe, unaided by proper implements, and labour 
rendered extremely tedious from this deficiency, yet, in 
regions where fuch advantages are denied, we do not find 
that the ardour of attempting is abated. A fleady perfeve- 
ranee, to a certain degree, accomplilhes the end aimed at; 
and Europe hath not, without reafon, been aftonilhed at the 
many lingular productions imported from the fouthern dif- 
coveries, fo neatly and curioully wrought by artlefs hands, 
unaflifted but by fuch fimple tools as ferve only to in- 
creafe our furprize, when we fee how much they have 
effected.—Every man, by his daily labour, gained his daily 
fuftenance : necefiity impofing this exertion, no idle or in¬ 
dolent people were feen, not even among thofe whom fupe- 
rior rank might have exempted ; on the contrary, thefe 
excited their inferiors to toil and activity by their own ex¬ 
amples. The King himfelf was the bell maker of hatchets 
in the ifland, and was ufually at work whenever difengaged 
from matters of importance.—Even the women lhared in 
the common toil; they laboured in the plantations of yams, 
and it was their province to pluck out all the weeds that 
fhot up from between the ftones of the paved caufeways. 
They manufactured the mats and bafkets, as well as attend¬ 
ed to their domeftic concerns. The bufinefs of tatooing was 
alfo carried on by them; thofe who entered on this em¬ 
ployment were denominated T’ackelbys artheil , or female ar- 
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