This Cuſtom ſtill continues in every Pariſh, and if any young Lad, or Laſs, was denyed the Privilege of doing whatever came into their Heads, they would look on themſelves as infinitely injured. This Time is indeed their Carnival, and they take, and are allowed more Liberties, than, methinks, is conſonant with: their Strictneſs in other Caſes.
The Young Men here are great Shooters with Bows and Arrows. There are frequently Shooting Matches, Pariſh againſt Parish, and Wagers laid, which Side ſhall have the better.
As for public Shows, there are none, of any kind, exhibited in this Iſland, ſo that the only Diversion of the Better Sort of People, is Drinking, which, indeed, they have an excellent Opportunity to indulge; the beſt Wines, and Rum, and Brandy, being exceſſively cheap, by reaſon, as I before obſerved, of their paying no Cuſtom for it, and a Man may drink himſelf dead without much Expence to his Family.
