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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67689	An impartial description of Surinam upon the continent of Guiana in America with a history of several strange beasts, birds, fishes, serpents, insects and customs of that colony, etc. / worthy the perusal of all, from experience of George Warren ...	Warren, George, 17th cent.	1667 (1667)	Wing W970; ESTC R6956	16,255	34

which drops from it while 't is Cureing and is the same commonly sold in England for Treakle The Gums yet most familiarly known there are Montagne and Gumma Semnia neither of which our Drugsters are unacquainted with they are both easily procurable and no doubt many more excellent which time and experience will bring to light There 's also Cassia Fistula in abundance and a kind of Balsam distilling from a Tree accounted second to none for a Green Hurt Nor are Dying-Woods wanting but more minded by the Dutch than English CHAP. VII Of the Plantations WHich are in all about five hundred whereof Forty or Fifty have sugar-works yielding no small profit to the Owners for a slight Disbursement considering how brave a Revenue if prudently manag'd may be rais'd from it in a few years far larger if no Contingency divert the ordinary Course of things than is usually produc'd from a greater foundation and more Continu'd Industry in England The Seasons for Felling down the Wood are between April and August it being left upon the Ground to drye till about the latter end of September when 't is burnt and the Soil enrich'd with its Ashes Indian-Corn and Canes are planted upon the Lower-Grounds Yames and other Provisions upon that which is higher The Corn grows upon a Stalk like a Reed commonly six or seven foot high and two Ears upon a Stalk The Grain is about the bigness of a Pea which becomes ripe in four Months They have two Crops in a year and the Increase is at least five hundred for one Canes become fit to break in Twelve Months when they are about six foot high and as thick as a Man's Wrist They bear a Top like a Flag which being Cut off and the Canes squeesed through a Mill the Juice is boyl'd in Coppers to a competent thickness and then pour'd into Wooden Pots made broad and square at the top and taper'd to the compass of a Sixpence at the Bottome with a Hole thorough which is stopp'd with a little stick till the Sugar begins to be cold and stiffen'd when 't is pull'd out and by that Passage the Molasses drains from it and being Cur'd a while after this manner is knock'd out into Hogsheads and so shipp'd off CHAP. VIII Of the Negroes or Slaves WHO are most brought out of Guiny in Africa to those parts where they are sold like Dogs and no better esteem'd but for their Work sake which they perform all the Week with the severest usages for the slightest fault till Saturday after noon when they are allowed to dress their own Gardens or Plantations having nothing but what they can produce from thence to live upon unless perhaps once or twice a year their Masters vouchsafe them as a great favour a little rotten Salt-fish Or if a Cow or Horse die of it self they get Roast-meat Their Lodging is a hard Board and their black Skins their Covering These wretched miseries not seldome drive them to desperate attempts for the Recovery of their Liberty endevouring to escape and if like to be re-taken sometimes lay violent hands upon themselves or if the hope of Pardon bring them again alive into their Masters power they 'l manifest their fortitude or rather obstinacy in suffering the most exquisite tortures can be inflicted upon them for a terrour and example to others without shrinking They are there a mixture of several Nations which are always Clashing with one another so that no Conspiracy can be hatching but 't is presently detected by some party amongst themselves disaffected to the Plot because their Enemies have a share in 't They are naturally treacherous and bloody and practice no Religion there though many of them are Circumcis'd But they believe the Ancient Pythagorean Errour of the Soul's Transmigration out of one body into another that when they dye they shall return into their own Countries and be Regenerated so live in the World by a Constant Revolution which Conceit makes many of them over-fondly wooe their Deaths not otherwise hoping to be freed from that indeed un-equall'd Slavery CHAP. IX Of things there Venomous and Hurtful THE propagating heat and paucity of Inhabitants in that Country to keep them under has I suppose occasioned its Swarming with so many several kinds of Vermin as render the Beings of Men in some measure dangerous troublesome and unpleasant Those most familiarly taken notice of are Snakes Crocodiles Scorpions Bats Ants Musketoes Toads and Frogs of Snakes 't is certain there has been some kill'd neer Thirty foot long and of a greatness proportionable to their length I know some people are so foolishly incredulous in things of this Nature that they will believe nothing which cannot be visibly demonstrated within the Limits of their own Thresholds therefore for fear of being thought to use the Authority of a Traveller I dare not repeat how huge a Morsel one of them will swallow at a time But far less danger resides in one of those huge Creatures then their presence may seem to threaten for they are not at all venomous and especially when full very un-weildy These belong properly to the Water though sometimes they prey by Land what ever they take is by Surprise never by plain glideing nor have I ever heard of any man yet was so much a Fool to be Cheated out of his Life by so evitable a mischief But the lesser kinds which are too too numerous are a great deal rather to be feared being many of them so poysonous as nothing can be more as was once or twice wofully experienced not only killing but the Flesh in less than a dayes space dropping by Peice-meal from the Bones of them who were bitten Some are all over diversify'd with Beautiful and Lively Colours under which Gallantry is generally observed to Lye hidden the most deadly poyson Others are knotty with Horns in their Tails and Tusks two Inches long upon the upper Chap. Crocodiles there are too but those neither very numerous nor large they need not take up the room of a Description here their Skins being so commonly to be seen in England in almost every Apothecaries Shop The Scorpion is black and almost like a Craw-fish he lurks for the most part amongst dry Wood or Corn his Sting is in his Tail with which who ever is stricken will be vex'd with most intolerable torture for some hours but it reaches not the life The ordinary Remedy to allay the fierceness of the misery is taken from the thing it self being kill'd and bruis'd upon the place The Eats are found to be not a little noxious both to Men and Beasts in the night drawing away their Blood and so easily that the loss is not perceivable 'till it be past prevention which if I was not misinform'd has forc'd several people to forsake their Dwellings to save that little blood they had which would have been otherwise suck'd out Some seem as big as Pigeons in their flight and as I have already mentioned