...observed several festivals, reporting the details to his colleagues in England. [These people are] the most merry creatures that live, feast and dance...perpetually; they never have much, nor want much. . . . Their Cantico [is] performed by round-dances, sometimes words, sometimes songs, then shouts,...

...friend; give them a fine gun, coat, or other thing, it may pass twenty hands before it sticks; light of heart, strong affections, but soon spent. The most...have much, nor want much ; wealth circulateth like blood ; all parts partake; and though none shall want what another hath, yet exact observers of property."...