Sot-weed Factor;
Reading edition
Or, a Voyage to
Maryland, &c.
Footnotes
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.
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · To Cove is to lie at Anchor safe in Harbour.Note 2 · The Bay of Piscato-way, the usual place where our Ships come to an Anchor in Mary-Land.Note 3 · The Planters generally wear Blue Linnen.Note 4 · A Canoo is an Indian Boat, cut out of the body of a Popular-Tree [sic., Poplar-Tree].Note 5 · Wolves are very numerous in Mary-Land.Note 6 · 'Tis supposed by the Planters that all unknown Persons run away from some Master.Note 7 · Syder-pap is a sort of Food made of Syder and small Homine, like our Oatmeal.Note 8 · Pon is Bread made of Indian-Corn.Note 9 · Mush is a sort of hasty-pudding made with water and Indian Flower.Note 10 · Homine is a dish that is made of boiled Indian Wheat, eaten with Molossus, or Bacon-Fat.Note 11 · 'Tis the Custom for Servants to be obliged for four Years to very servile work; after which time they have their Freedom.Note 12 · These are the general Excuses made by English Women, which are sold, or sell themselves to Mary-Land.Note 13 · Beds stand in the Chimney-corner in this Country.Note 14 · Frogs are called Virginia Bells and make (both in that country and Mary-Land) during the Night, a very hoarse ungrateful Noise.Note 15 · Kekicknitop is an Indian Expression, and signifies no more than this, How do you do?Note 16 · These Indians worship the Devil, and pray to him as we do to God Almighty. 'Tis suppos'd, that America was peopled from Scythia or Tartaria,Note 17 · Pizarro was the Person that conquer'd Peru; a Man of a most bloody Disposition, base, treacherous, covetous and revengeful.Note 18 · Spanish Shoar.Note 19 · There is a very bad Custom in some Colledges, of giving the Students A Groat ad purgandas Rhenes, which is usually employ'd to the use of thNote 20 · Bears are said to live by sucking of their Paws, according to the Notion of some Learned Authors.Note 21 · The Phœnicians were the best and boldest Saylors of Antiquity, and indeed the only Persons, in former Ages, who durst venture themselves on Note 22 · The Priests argue, That our Senses in point of Transubstantiation ought not to be believed, for tho' the Consecrated Bread has all the accidNote 23 · In the County-Court of Mary-Land, very few of the Justices of the Peace can write or read.Note 24 · 'Tis the Custom of the Planters to throw their own, or any other Person's Hat, Wig, Shooes or Stockings in the Fire.Note 25 · Planters are usually call'd by the Name of Oronooko, from their Planting Oronooko-Tobacco.Note 26 · Cockerouse, is a Man of Quality.Note 27 · Musmilleon Vines are what we call Musk milleon Plants.Note 28 · Æthon is one of the Poetical Horses of the Sun.Note 29 · Chinces are a sort of Vermin like our Bugs in England.Note 30 · Wild Turkies are very good Meat, and prodigiously large in Mary-Land.Note 31 · Succahana is Water.Note 32 · 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.Note 33 · This Fellow was an Apothecary, and turned an Attorney at Law.Note 34 · The Yaws is the Pox.Note 35 · The chief of Mary-Land containing about twenty-four Houses.Note 36 · There is a Law in this Country, the Plaintiff may pay his Debt in Country pay, which consists in the produce of his Plantation.Note 37 · The home ward bound fleet meets here.Note 38 · Condemn'd by Fate to way-ward Curse, Of Friends unkind, and empty Purse; Plagues worse than fill'd Pandora's Box, I took my leave of Albion'Note 39 · Scarce had we finish'd serious Story, But I espy'd the Town before me, And roaring Planters on the ground, Drinking of Healths in Circle rouNote 40 · May Canniballs transported o'er the Sea Prey on these Slaves, as they have done on me; May never Merchant's trading Sails explore This Cruel