[Their Railery] Some of their words of Reproach, or Railery are such as these.  One brother will say to another, and that in presence of their Mother, Tomotowoy, go lye with your Mother, the other replyes go you and lye with your Mother.  And the Mother will say to the Daughter, Jopi oppota audewind, go lye with your Father; intimating she is good for nothing.  They will commend their Children, when they can use their tongues in their own defence by scolding and say, Hoerri, oppana, Well said, valiantly spoken.  They will say also in reproach, Creep between my legs, cut your Nose off.  If you have five hundred lives, you shall be damned.  The worst railery they can give a woman is to tell her, she has laid with ten sorts of inferior ranks of People, which they will rather dye than do.  If any thing be stole out of their grounds or Plantations fruit or the like, they will cry out aloud, This was done by some low-cast begotten Rogue, or She was a whore to some inferior rank who dressed it; and this Language they will continue for half an hour together, tho they know not who hath done it.  The worst word they use to Whites and Christians, is to call them Beaf-eating Slaves.

I shall conclude this Discourse of their Language, by giving you a tast of their Proverbs, some hints of the strain of their Speech.

[Proverbs.] Miris dilah, ingurah gotta.  I have given Pepper, and got Ginger.  Spoken when a man makes a bad exchange.  And they use it in reference to the Dutch succeeding the Portugueze in their Island.

Datta horrala Badda perind.  Pick your Teeth to fill your Belly.  Spoken of stingy niggardly People.

Caula yonawa ruah atti.  To eat before you go forth is handsom and convenient.  Which they therefore ever do.

Kiallah tiannah, Degery illand avah oppala hanguand mordy, As the saying is, if I come to beg Butter-milk, why should I hide my Pan.  Which is ordinarily spoken to introduce the business that one man comes to speak to the other about.

Hingonna wellendam cor cottonwat geah par wardenda netta.  A Begger and a Trader cannot be lost.  Because they are never out of their way.

Atting mitting delah hottarah harracurnowah.  To lend to another makes him become an Enemy.  For he will hate you if you ask him for it again.

Annuna min yain ecka ourowaying younda eppa.  Go not with a Slave in one Boat.  It signifies, to have no dealing or correspondence with any ones Slave.  For if any dammage should happen, it would fall upon your head, and by their Law you must make it good.

Issara otting bollanowa pos cotting.  First look in the hand, afterwards open the mouth.  Spoken of a Judge, who first must have a Bribe before he will pronounce on their side.

Take a Ploughman from the Plough, and wash off his dirt, and he is fit to rule a Kingdom.  Spoken of the People of Cande Uda, where there are such eminent Persons of the Hondrew rank; and because of the Civility, Understanding, and Gravity of the poorest Men among them.