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lieved, for tho' the Consecrated Bread has all the accidents of Bread, yet they affirm, 'tis the Body of Christ, and not of Bread but Flesh and Bones.] [Footnote y: In the County-Court of Mary-Land, very few of the Justices of the Peace can write or read.] [Footnote z: 'Tis the Custom of the Planters to throw their own, or any other Person's Hat, Wig, Shooes or Stockings in the Fire.] [Footnote aa: Planters are usually call'd by the Name of _Oronooko_, from their Planting _Oronooko-Tobacco_.] [Footnote bb: Cockerouse, is a Man of Quality.] [Footnote cc: Musmilleon Vines are what we call Musk milleon Plants.] [Footnote dd: _AEthon_ is one of the Poetical Horses of the Sun.] [Footnote ee: _Chinces_ are a sort of Vermin like our _Bugs_ in _England_.] [Footnote ff: Wild Turkies are very good Meat, and prodigiously large in _Mary-Land_.] [Footnote gg: Succahana is Water.] [Footnote hh: A Goud grows upon an _Indian_ Vine, resembling a Bottle, when ripe it is hollow; this the Planters make use of to drink water out of.] [Footnote ii: This Fellow was an Apothecary, and turned an Attorney at Law.] [Footnote kk: The _Yaws_ is the _Pox_.] [Footnote ll: The chief of _Mary-Land_ containing about twenty-four _Houses_.] [Footnote mm: There is a Law in this Country, the Plaintiff may pay his Debt in Country pay, which consists in the produce of his Plantation.] [Footnote nn: The home ward bound fleet meets here.] [Footnote oo: The Author does not intend by this any of the _English_ Gentlemen resident there.] * * * * * FINIS. GLOSSARY. Cockerouse: a man of Quality. Chinces: _chinches_,--bed-bugs. Froes: women; _frau_ (German) _vrouw_ (Dutch). Hoe (at the): working in the field. Lanctre-Looe: the game at cards of _loo_. Night-rails: night cloathes. Oast: host. Oronooko: tobacco, also a nick-name, in those days, for a planter. Pam: in _loo_ the knave or clubs generally, and sometimes the knave of trumps, is agreed on as the highest card, and called Pam. Sot-weed: tobacco. Sot-weed Factor: tobacco-agent or supercargo. Succahana: water. Tripple-Tree: gallows. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Sot-weed Factor: or, A Voyage to Maryl
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