{MN} _Their increase of Cattel and Poultry._ {MN} For Bread they have plenty, and so good, that those that make it well, better cannot be: Divers have much _English_ Corn, especially Mr. _Abraham Perce,_ which prepared this Year to sow two Hundred Acres of _English_ Wheat, and as much with Barly, feeding daily about the number of sixty Persons at his own Charges. * * * * * {MN} _Plenty of Corn._ {MN} For Drink, Some Malt the _Indian_ Corn, others Barly, of which they make good Ale, both strong and small, and such plenty thereof, few of the Upper Planters drink any Water: but the better sort are well furnished with Sack, _Aquavitae,_ and good _English_ Beer. * * * * * {MN} _Their Drink._ {MN} The Servants commonly feed upon Milk Homili, which is bruised _Indian_ Corn pounded, and boiled thick, and Milk for the sawce; but boiled with Milk, the best of all will feed oft on it, and leave their Flesh; with Milk, Butter and Cheese; with Fish, Bulls-flesh, for they seldom kill any other, &c. And every one is so applied to his labour about Tobacco and Corn, which doth yield them such Profit, they never regard any food from the _Salvages,_ nor have they any Trade or Conference with them, but upon meer Accidents and Defiances: And now the Merchants have left it, there having gone so many voluntary Ships within these two Years, as have furnished them with Apparel, Sack, _Aquavitae,_ and all necessaries, much better than any before. * * * * * {MN} _Their Servants diet._ {MN} For Arms, There is scarce any Man but he is furnished with a Piece, a Jack, a Coat of Male, a Sword or Rapier; and every Holy-day, every Plantation doth Exercise their Men in Arms, by which means Hunting and Fowling, the most part of them are most Excellent Marks-men. * * * * * {MN} _Their Arms and Exercise._ {MN} For Discoveries they have made none, nor any other Commodity than Tobacco do they apply themselves unto, tho' never any was Planted at first. And whereas the Countrey was heretofore held most intemperate and contagious by many, now they have Houses, Lodgings, Victuals, and the Sun hath Power to Exhale up the moist Vapours of the Earth, where they have cut down the Wood, which before it could not, being covered with spreading tops of high Trees; they find it much more healthful than before; nor for their Numbers, few Countries are less troubled with Death, Sickness, or any other Disease, nor where overgrown Women become more fruitful. * * * * * {MN} _Their Health and Discoveries._