For the ease of the Blower, there is a strap, that is fastned to two posts, and comes round behind him, on which he leans his back:  and he has a stick laid cross-ways before him, on which he lays both his hands, and so he blows with greater ease.  As the Stones are thus burning, the dross that is in them melts and runs out at the bottom, where there is a slanting hole made for the purpose so big as the lump of Iron may pass thro:  out of this hole, I say, runs out the dross like streams of fire, and the Iron remains behind.  Which when it is purified, as they think, enough, so that there comes no more dross away, they drive this lump of Iron thro the same sloping hole.  Then they give it a chop with an Ax half thro, and so sling it into the water.  They so chop it, that it may be seen that it is good, Iron for the Satisfaction of those that are minded to buy.

[How they make Butter.] For a farewel of their labours, let it not be unacceptable to relate here a piece of their Housewifry; and tell you how they make Butter.  First, They boil the Milk, then they turn it into a Curd; the next morning they skim off the Cream, and drill it in an earthen Vessel with a stick having a cross at the bottom of it, somewhat like a Chocolate stick.  When the Butter is come, they put it in a pan, and fry it, to get all the water dry out of it, and so put it into an earthen pot for use.

[Shops in the City.] There are no Markets on the Island.  Some few Shops they have in the Cities, which sell Cloth, Rice, Salt, Tobacco, Limes, Druggs, Fruits, Swords, Steel, Brass, Copper, &c.

[Prizes of Commodities.] As to the Prices of Commodities, they are sold after this rate.  Rice in the City, where it is dearest, is after six quarts for fourpence half-peny English, or a small Tango, or half a Tango; six Hens as much; a fat Pig the same:  a fat Hog, three shillings and six pence or four shilling:  but there are none so big as ours.  A fat Goat, two and fix pence.  Betle-nuts 4000 nine pence Currant price, when a Trad.

And now we are discoursing or their Traffick, we will speak a little of their Measures, Weights, and Coin.

[Of their Measures.] First for Measures.  A Rian is a Cubit, which is with them from the bone on the inside of the Elbow to the tip of the fourth Finger.  A Waddo rian is the Carpenters Rule.  It is as much as will reach from one Elbow to the other, the Thumbs touching one the other at the tops, and so stretching out both Elbows.

For their Corn-measures, the least is a Potta, which is to contain as much Grain as a man can hold heaped up in his whole hand palm and fingers and all.  Four Pottas make a lawful or Statute-measure, called Bonder Nellia, signifying the King’s measure.  Which is the King’s ordinary allowance to a man, that is as much as he can eat in a day.  But we Englishmen were allowed two.  Four of these Bonder Nellias make a Courney.  In fashion it is an handsom turned measure, some of them are made with Canes like a Basket.  Ten of these Courneys make a Pale, that is forty measures, which is the usual quantity that they sell for a Laree, or fifth part of a Piece of eight, the usual price in Cande Vda.  But in time of Harvest two Pales for a Laree.  Four of these Pales make an Ommouna.  In which they keep the account of their Corn, reckoning by Ommounas.