[How they Manure and order their young Corn.] And thus it stands without any Water, till such time as the Corn be grown some three or four Inches above the Ground.  There were certain gaps made in the Banks to let out the water, these are now stopped to keep it in.  Which is not only to nourish the Corn, but to kill the weeds.  For they keep their Fields as clean as a Garden without a weed.  Then when the Corn is grown about a span high, the Women come and weed it, and pull it up where it grew too thick, and transplant it where it wants.  And so it stands overflown till the Corn be ripe, when they let out the water again to make it dry for reaping.  They never use any dung, but their manner of plowing and soaking of their Ground serves instead thereof.

[Their manner of Reaping.] At reaping they are excellent good, just after the English manner.  The whole Town, as I said before, as they joyn together in Tilling, so in their Harvest also; For all fall in together in reaping one man’s Field, and so to the next, until every mans Corn be down.  And the Custome is, that every man, during the reaping of his Corn, finds all the rest with Victuals.  The womens work is to gather up the Corn after the Reapers, and carry it all together.

[They tread out their Corn with Cattel.] They use not Threshing, but tread out their Corn with Cattel, which is a far quicker and easier way.  They may tread out in a day forty or fifty Bushels at least with the help of half a dozen Cattel.

[The Ceremonies they use when the Corn is to be trodden.] When they are to tread their Corn they choose a convenient adjoyning place.  Here they lay out a round piece Ground some twenty or five and twenty foot over.  From which they cut away the upper Turf.  Then certain Ceremonies are used.  First, they adorn this place with ashes made into flowers and branches, and round circles.  Then they take divers strange shells, and pieces of Iron, and some sorts of Wood, and a bunch of betel Nuts, (which are reserved for such purposes) and lay all these in the very middle of the Pit, and a large stone upon them.  Then the women, whose proper work it is, bring each their burthen of reaped Corn upon their heads, and go round in the Pit three times, and then fling it down.  And after this without any more ado, bring in the rest of the Corn as fast as they can.  For this Labour, and that of weeding, the Women have a Fee due to them, which they call Warapol, that is as much Corn, as shall cover the Stone and the other Conjuration-Instruments at the bottom of the Pit.

They will frequently carry away their new reaped Corn into the Pit; and tread it out presently as soon as they have cut it down, to secure it from the Rains, which in some Parts are very great and often; and Barns they have none big enough, But in other places not so much given to Rains, they will sometimes set it up in a Cock, and let it stand some months.