Friendly advice to the gentlemen-planters of the East and West Indies In three parts. I. A brief treatise of the most principal fruits and herbs that grow in the East & West Indies; giving an account of their respective vertues both for food and physick, and what planet and sign they are under. Together with some directions for the preservation of health and life in those hot climates. II. The complaints of the negro-slaves against the hard usages and barbarous cruelties inflicted upon them. III. A discourse in way of dialogue, between an Ethiopean or negro-slave, and a Christian that was his master in America. By Philotheos Physiologus.

Of Prickle-Pears.

THis is a pleasant delightful Fruit, very grateful to Nature, and may with safety be eaten both in health and sickness, being easie of concoction, it quickly passeth away, digesting and moving the Obstructions that offend the Passages, if eaten on an empty Stomach, either alone or with Bread, or some other food, it is mo∣derately cooling, and good against the Stone and Gravel, if eaten alone in a Morning when fasting, and a glass of White-Wine, allay'd with Water (viz. one third part Wine and two Water) drank after it. Mercury governs it, and the Sign Aries. But neither this nor any other fruit ought to be eaten in wantonness, nor for state or vain plea∣sure, as between Meals and after Din∣ner, our Creator never intending them for such uses, but for the support and health of mankind, and those that abuse them otherwise, commit a very

great Evil, of which they ought to Repent, and forsake all such super∣fluities.