At Our Waxsaw Landlord's Cabin, Was A Woman Employ'd In No Other Business
Than Cookery; It Being A House Of Great Resort.
The Fire was surrounded
with Roast-meat, or Barbakues, and the Pots continually boiling
full of Meat, from Morning till Night.
This She-Cook was the cleanliest
I ever saw amongst the Heathens of America, washing her Hands
before she undertook to do any Cookery; and repeated this unusual Decency
very often in a day. She made us as White-Bread as any English
could have done, and was full as neat, and expeditious, in her Affairs.
It happen'd to be one of their great Feasts, when we were there:
The first day that we came amongst them, arriv'd an Ambassador
from the King of Sapona, to treat with these Indians about
some important Affairs. He was painted with Vermillion all over his Face,
having a very large Cutlass stuck in his Girdle, and a Fusee in his Hand.
At Night, the Revels began where this Foreign Indian was admitted;
the King, and War Captain, inviting us to see their Masquerade:
This Feast was held in Commemoration of the plentiful Harvest of Corn
they had reap'd the Summer before, with an united Supplication
for the like plentiful Produce the Year ensuing. These Revels
are carried on in a House made for that purpose, it being done round
with white Benches of fine Canes, joining along the Wall;
and a place for the Door being left, which is so low, that a Man
must stoop very much to enter therein.
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