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done on me;?May never Merchant's trading Sails explore?This Cruel, this inhospitable Shoar;?But left abandon'd by the World to starve,?May they sustain the Fate they well deserve;?May they turn Savage, or as _Indians_ Wild,?From Trade, Converse and Happiness exil'd;?Recreant to Heaven, may they adore the Sun,?And into Pagan Superstitions run?For Vengence ripe---------------?May Wrath Divine then lay those Regions wast?Where no Man's (oo) Faithful, nor a Woman Chast.
[Footnote a: By the Cape is meant the _Capes of Virginea_[_sic._], the first Land on the Coast of _Virginia_ and _Mary-Land_.]
[Footnote b: To _Cove_ is to lie at Anchor safe in Harbour.]
[Footnote c: The Bay of _Piscato-way_, the usual place where our Ships come to an Anchor in _Mary-Land_.]
[Footnote d: The Planters generally wear _Blue Linnen_.]
[Footnote e: A _Canoo_ is an _Indian_ Boat, cut out of the body of a Popular-Tree [_sic._, Poplar-Tree].]
[Footnote f: Wolves are very numerous in _Mary-Land_.]
[Footnote g: 'Tis supposed by the Planters that all unknown Persons run away from some Master.]
[Footnote h: Syder-pap is a sort of Food made of Syder and small Homine, like our Oatmeal.]
[Footnote i: Pon is Bread made of _Indian-Corn_.]
[Footnote k: Mush is a sort of hasty-pudding made with water and _Indian_ Flower.]
[Footnote l: Homine is a dish that is made of boiled _Indian_ Wheat, eaten with Molossus, or Bacon-Fat.]
[Footnote m: 'Tis the Custom for Servants to be obliged for four Years to very servile work; after which time they have their Freedom.]
[Footnote n: These are the general Excuses made by _English_ Women, which are sold, or sell themselves to _Mary-Land_.]
[Footnote o: Beds stand in the Chimney-corner in this Country.]
[Footnote p: Frogs are called _Virginia_ Bells and make (both in that country and _Mary-Land_) during the Night, a very hoarse ungrateful Noise.]
[Footnote q: _Kekicknitop_ is an _Indian_ Expression, and signifies no more than this, _How do you do?_]
[Footnote r: These _Indians_ worship the Devil, and pray to him as we do to God Almighty. 'Tis suppos'd, that _America_ was peopled from _Scythia_ or _Tartaria_, which Borders on _China_, by reason the _Tartarians_ and _Americans_, very much agree in their Manners, Arms and Government. Other persons are of Opinion, that the _Chinese_ first peopled the _West-Indies_; imagining _China_ and the Southern part of _America_ to be contiguous. Others believe that the Phoenicians who were very skilful Mariners, first planted a Colony in the Isles of _America_, and supply'd the Persons left to inhabit there with Women and all other Necessaries; till either the Death or Shipwreck of the first Discoverers, or some other Misfortune, occasioned the loss of the Discovery, which had been purchased by the Peril of the first Adventurers.]
[Footnote s: Pizarro was the Person that conquer'd Peru; a Man of a most bloody Disposition, base, treacherous, covetous and revengeful.]
[Footnote t: _Spanish_ Shoar.]
[Footnote u: There is a very bad Custom in some Colledges, of giving the Students _A Groat ad purgandas Rhenes_, which is usually employ'd to the use of the _Donor_.]
[Footnote v: Bears are said to live by sucking of their _Paws_, according to the Notion of some Learned Authors.]
[Footnote w: The _Phoenicians_ were the best and boldest Saylors of Antiquity, and indeed the only Persons, in former Ages, who durst venture themselves on the Main Sea.]
[Footnote x: The _Priests_ argue, That our Senses in point of _Transubstantiation_ ought not to be believed, for tho' the Consecrated Bread has all the accidents of Bread, yet they affirm, 'tis the Body of Christ, and not of Bread but Flesh and Bones.]
[Footnote y: In the County-Court of Mary-Land, very few of the Justices of the Peace can write or read.]
[Footnote z: 'Tis the Custom of the Planters to throw their own, or any other Person's Hat, Wig, Shooes or Stockings in the Fire.]
[Footnote aa: Planters are usually call'd by the Name of _Oronooko_, from their Planting _Oronooko-Tobacco_.]
[Footnote bb: Cockerouse, is a Man of Quality.]
[Footnote cc: Musmilleon Vines are what we call Musk milleon Plants.]
[Footnote dd: _?thon_ is one of the Poetical Horses of the Sun.]
[Footnote ee: _Chinces_ are a sort of Vermin like our _Bugs_ in _England_.]
[Footnote ff: Wild Turkies are very good Meat, and prodigiously large in _Mary-Land_.]
[Footnote gg: Succahana is Water.]
[Footnote hh: A Goud grows upon an _Indian_ Vine, resembling a Bottle, when ripe it is hollow; this the Planters make use of to drink water out of.]
[Footnote ii: This Fellow was an Apothecary, and turned an Attorney at Law.]
[Footnote kk: The _Yaws_ is the _Pox_.]
[Footnote ll: The chief of _Mary-Land_ containing about twenty-four _Houses_.]
[Footnote mm: There is a Law in this Country, the Plaintiff may pay his Debt in Country pay, which consists in the produce of his Plantation.]
[Footnote nn: The home ward bound fleet meets here.]
[Footnote oo: The Author does not intend by this any of the _English_ Gentlemen resident there.]

FINIS.
GLOSSARY.
Cockerouse: a man of Quality.
Chinces: _chinches_,--bed-bugs.
Froes: