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met with a black negroe in the woods who directed us to another plantation, where we found about two hundred men and women negroes working at the ſugar boiling, and grinding the ſugar cnaes, their maſter came and aſked what we was? and we freely told him we were priſoners of war, and that we had come that road to avoid being taken aboard of the man of war, he then ordered us all to ſit down, and aſked if we could drink any hot? (which is a juce made from ſugar) But conſidering it might do us, harm ordered rum punch, and every man a herring and a plantin, which is like a green bean-code, aſking what countrymen we were? And when we told him there were ſo many of us Scotchmen, he ordered all the Scotch to go up to his houſe, where he treated us with the fineſt of cheſſer cheeſe, and the beſt drink his houſe could afford: He told us he was a native of Falkirk in Scotland, whoſe name I do not here mention; he likewiſe ſent ſome of his negroes to be our guides, and ordered us to go into Kingſton two by two, which we did, and here we found our own ſhip, which was retaken from the French and carried in there.
I having now a great deſire after the whale-fiſhing, where I ſaw a wonderful performance, done by a ſavage Indian in the ſtraits of St. David's; He came off the ſhore in a ſmall boat made of leather without and wands within, having a piece of wood in his hand in ſhape like a long oar, broad at both the ends, and round in the middle, he ſtroke the water firſt with one end
