A true & exact history of the island of BarbadosLigon, Richard
History
A true & exact history of the island of Barbados
Ligon, Richard
Barbados -- Description and travel; Plants -- Barbados; Sugar -- Manufacture and refining -- Barbados
taste it has naturally. And for Olives, ’tis well known, that jogging
in the carriage causes them to bruise one another; and some of them
being bruised, will grow rotten, and infect the rest. So that Wine,
Oyle, and Olives, cannot possibly be brought to such Plantations,
as are eight or ten miles from the _Bridge_; and from thence, the
most part of these commodities are to be fetch’d. So that you may
imagine, what advantage Collonell _Walrond_ has, of any inland
Plantation, having these materialls, which are the main Regalia’s in
a Feast, and his own contrivance to boot, besides all I have formerly
nam’d, concerning raw and preserv’d fruits, with all the other
Quelquechoses. And thus much I thought good to say for the honour
of the Iland, which is no more then truth; because I have heard it
sleighted by some, that seem’d to know much of it.
[Sidenote: _Commodities Exported._]
About a hundred sail of Ships yearly visit this Iland, and receive,
during the time of their stay in the Harbours, for their sustenance,
the native Victualls growing in the Iland, such as I have already
named; besides what they carry away, and what is carried away by
Planters of the Ile, that visit other parts of the world. The
commodities this Iland trades in, are _Indico_, _Cotten-wool_,
_Tobacco_, _Suger_, _Ginger_, and _Fustick-wood_.
[Sidenote: _Commodities Imported._]
The Commodities these Ships bring to this Iland, are, _Servants_
and _Slaves_, both men and women; _Horses_, _Cattle_, _Assinigoes_,
_Camells_, _Utensills_ for boyling Sugar, as, _Coppers_, _Taches_,
_Goudges_, and _Sockets_; all manner of working tooles for
Trades-men, as, _Carpenters_, _Joyners_, _Smiths_, _Masons_,
_Mill-wrights_, _Wheel-wrights_, _Tinkers_, _Coopers_, &c. _Iron_,
_Steel_, _Lead_, _Brasse_, _Pewter_, _Cloth_ of all kinds, both
_Linnen_ and _Wollen_; _Stuffs_, _Hatts_, _Hose_, _Shoos_, _Gloves_,
_Swords_, _knives_, _Locks_, _Keys_, &c. _Victualls_ of all kinds,
that will endure the Sea, in so long a voyage. _Olives_, _Capers_,
_Anchoves_, _salted Flesh_ and _Fish_, _pickled Maquerells_ and
_Herrings_, _Wine_ of all sorts, and the boon Beer, _d’Angleterre_.
[Sidenote: _What Buildings we found at our first comming upon the
Iland._]
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