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Jars: at each end is a platform of Deal, with a Canopy over it: but so little are the People here used to clean the Boards, that they are stained & dirtyed [dirtied] with every kind of nastiness that can be conceived, & Look literally as if they had not been washed since they were layed down.
The Portugese [Portuguese] tho [though] very complaisant to Strangers, are nevertheless Shy of entertaining them: which proceeds as we were told, from the badness of their living; their first People living in a style much inferior, even to our Merchants who reside among them: whether it proceeds from that, or any other
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