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they call the Gauffre —perform the Mitave , singing and 
dancing, playing on their instruments, exercising them¬ 
selves by Moonlight, & play at various games. 
There’s a sort of Comedians, Singers, & Jugglers, who 
roam about the country; they are nam’d Secatses. I am 
assur’d that these Secatses are all hermaphrodites, which 
may be so; but I’ve not had the curiosity to visit them, 
tho’ I have seen them many times. They have masculine 
visage, wear no beard, and are dress’d like women. They 
are adroit, & do many tricks of suppleness, play farces or 
comedies in their fashion, and play also several instru¬ 
ments of their country. They roam always by the coast 
& elsewhere ; they are welcome, and treated kindly by all 
the Island, where they have no enemies. 
The Natives of the Island cultivate the land & plant 
rice, peas, & beans of several kinds, & quantity of good 
roots ; they reap from all that abundantly. I do not give 
any particular description of these plantings, not more 
than of other things, of which many persons who have 
been in the Island have been able to write. 
There are many sorts of good fruits in the Islands, as Fruits. 
Bananas & Adam’s Figs, Pineapples, Cocos, Citrons, sweet 
& bitter, Lemons, Oranges, sweet & bitter, small Oranges, 
which they name Vangasecs , which are better than the 
Oranges of China & of Portugal; ’tis the best fruit to my 
taste which there’s in the Island. There are, besides, in 
the woods other fruits good enough ; there are some which 
they call Vontaques. This fruit grows of the size of two 
fists, round as a ball, having the skin green, which covers 
a very hard shell, in which is the fruit, which is soft as 
Medlars, & approaching their taste, not at all so good. 
This fruit is very refreshing; they use it for playing at 
ball; & when they are hot & thirsty at the end of the 
game, they can eat their ball. 
There’s another sort, which are nam’d Lamottes , which 
