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grots Wafli their Heads with Soap oncc a Weck to prevent being LoivjJ ,whilst the other Negroes Joule a gteat deal of Time in looking after theirHeads i which byreason ot their Curis ßreed Lice more than the Englist,insomuch, that he aSirms tu have seen great Holes eaten by Lice in theHeads of soraeofthein that were Lazy.

In the Colick Biltous we often used Clyßtrs of Tobacco-Smoak, but with-no SucceG at all. I also gave the Juice of Tobacco, an Ounce in a Clyster,v/Fich Stupiffd extremely, but did no other good, than for the present torender them Insensible of their Pain.h is ufud to give Clyster s ofa Pint ofBrandy there,which will make them as Drunk and Mad as it they had takenit at their Mouths: I obsetv'd that lesi Brandy would Fexe them In a, Cly-ster than if Drunk by them. I try’d a quarter of a Pint in a Clyster onmy seif, and it made rac, not Dead Drunk but Raging Mad, (though mixtwith other things ) my Reason being Deprav'd by theie Fumes : So I nevertook more of that Clyster but once to Reiterate the Experiment, the Effect be-ing the fame. But I ccmply’d with the Spanißt Negroes, who to Nou-riß) me, gave me a Clyster of half a Pint of Madera-Sack, the Talk of oneEgg, and a little Pepper, Warm’d and Given at Night, and to Hold it-in all Night: which did Gently Warm my Bowels, and Cast me alwaysinto a gentle Sleep and Sweat for some Hours: I took many of thesc inthe Day time, the Effect ceasing after 1 or 3 Hout s.

I am qf Opinion, that Chocolate, if it were well made and taken in a right:way, is the best Diet for Hypocbcndnacks and Chronical Difiefnpers, and theScurvy, Gout, and Stone, and Women Lymg-in, and Children Ntwborn (toprevent Ccnvulstons and Bürge the Meconium out) and many other Distem-pers, that ever came into Europe : but ’tis now rather lls'd for Luxury thanPbyfick, and so Compounded as to Destroy the Stomach, and to EncreaseHypcchondriacal Difeajetr

The Cbegds b^fed commonly in the Negro’s, yet no Eng/ißt get them, N.+i.p.sijvbut by going in places frequented by them. They are Incident most tosuch, as are Nasty abeut theFeetj and very feldom any elfe have them»

They willSpread by little and little over the whole Fett, Eatoff Toes, andOver-rqn the whole Body of someldle Negroes.

2. Alligators arefhap’d like Liz,ards, being Fourfooted they Walk with Some of tbefttheir Belly at a D stance from the Ground, lik e Liz>ards. Those of a füllGrowtb, have Tetth like a Alastiff, and a Mouth of 15 foot Wide. They fcj*M/.Norv.-ocdlare of so Strong a Seent, that you may Smell them at a pretty Distance, jf“g' 2+ n ‘ 4 ‘'when they he on the Land. They may be Masler’d and Kill'd by any,

Dexterous and Skill’d in the way ofdoing it, which is, that a Man beArtn’d with a good long Trunchion, and fall upon them Side-ways ; fordoing it Front-vsays they are too nimble for the Aflailant, and may, byLeaping upon bim, (which they can do the Length of their whole Body)

Spoilhim: but if he lay his Club on them against their Shoulder, and be-hir.d their Fore-feet, and Lame them there, they are easily Subdu’d.

Tortcifes, if their Blocd be Heated, Dye: and if they fhall Live, theirBlood tr.ust not be Hotttr than the Element they Live in.

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