e as much addicted to debauchery as the former;
but their manner of hunting is different from that in Europe; for these
bucaniers have certain places designed for hunting, where they live for
three or four months, and sometimes a whole year. Such places are called
deza boulan; and in these, with only the company of five or six friends,
they continue all the said time in mutual friendship. The first
bucaniers many times agree with planters to furnish them with meat all
the year at a certain price: the payment hereof is often made with two
or three hundredweight of tobacco in the leaf; but the planters
commonly into the bargain furnish them with a servant, whom they send
to help. To the servant they afford sufficient necessaries for the
purpose, especially of powder and shot to hunt withal.

The planters here have but very few slaves; for want of which,
themselves and their servants are constrained to do all the drudgery.
These servants commonly bind themselves to their masters for three
years; but their masters, having no consciences, often traffic with
their bodies, as with horses at a fair, selling them to other masters as
they sell negroes. Yea, to advance this trade, some persons go purposely
into France (and likewise to England, and other countries) to pick up
young men or boys, whom they inveigle and transport; and having once got
them into these islands, they work them like horses, the toil imposed on
them being much harder than what they enjoin the negroes, their slaves;
for these they endeavour to preserve, being their perpetual bondmen: but
for their white servants, they care not whether they live or die, seeing
they are to serve them no longer than three years. These miserable
kidnapped people are frequently subject to a disease, which in these
parts is called coma, being a total privation of their senses. This
distemper is judged to proceed from their hard usage, and the change of
their native climate; and there being often among these some of good
quality, tender education, and soft constitutions, they are more easily
seized with this disease, and others of those countries, than those of
harder bodies, and laborious lives. Beside the hard usage in their diet,
apparel, and rest, many times they beat them so cruelly, that they fall
down dead under the hands of their cruel masters. This I have often seen
with great grief. Of the many instances, I shall only give you the
following history, it being remarkable in