These are made so artificially, that people sometimes have been caught and destroyed by them.

Once such a trap in my remembrance fell upon three women and killed them.

Who having been stealing Cotton in a Plantation, and fearing to be catched went to creep out at a hole, where this Trap stood.
And thus I have related some of their ways of taking wild Cattel.

They are good also at catching Birds and Vermin; In fine, they are the cunningest people in the World for such kind of traps and gins.

And all of them they make onely by the help of their Knives with green sticks and withs that grow in the Woods.