Category: Travel Writing
This book was printed in 1735 and this etext is a careful reproduction of that original text. No spelling and very few punctuation corrections have been made in order to preserve the historical value of the original work.
This book was printed in 1735 and this etext is a careful reproduction of that original text. No spelling and very few punctuation corrections have been made in order to preserv...
2. Part 2In the Evening from six to nine, we saw those Appearances in the Sky called _Capræ saltantes_, by the Sailors _Morrice-Dancers_; they are Streams of Light that suddenly shoot in...
3. Part 3Their chief Diet is _Indian_ Corn, Rice, Palm-nuts, Bananas, Yamms, Pine-apples, and now and then a little Fish, or a Fowl; all which thro’ Ignorance, and want of Necessaries, a...
4. Part 4We left _Sierraleon_ and were joined by our Consort the _Weymouth_, _May_ 1, from _Gambia_; we found upon Conference, that both Ships had like to have ended their Voyage at thes...
5. Part 5We stopped a few Hours at _Axim_ in our Passage from _Apollonia_, and anchored here _June_ 7, most Ships doing it for the Conveniency of watering, more difficultly supplied at a...
6. Part 6_Cromers_ grow in Pods like Peas, but larger, rounder, and full of little Seed; this, and _Tantarraboys_, a Fruit red and yellow, that grows wild, they put into their _black Sou...
7. Part 7The most curious of their Customs, and peculiar to this Part, is their _Snake-Worship_, which, according to my Intelligence, is as follows. This _Snake_, the Object of their Wor...
8. Part 8If the Person mentioned does not mean human Flesh alive, and in way of Trade, yet without a good interior Sight, he might mistake it for that of Monkeys, there being an awkard R...
9. Part 9An extensive Trade, in a moral Sense, is an extensive Evil, obvious to those who can see how Fraud, Thieving, and Executions have kept pace with it. The great Excess in Branches...
10. Part 10Where the _Company_’s Factors are settled, as at _Gambia_, and along the greatest part of the Gold Coast, they influence the Trade something against private Ships; so also at _S...
11. Part 11All reserve it in Leather Pouches, and at _London_, the Gold-Smith runs it down in a [36]Crucible at two pence _per_ Ounce; it’s kept dissolved for the Evaporation of Dross, (pe...
12. Part 12_Anno_ 1663, an Act passed by the President (who acts as Governor in their absence) the Council and Assembly, for 4½ in Specie Duty of all Commodities, the Produce of the Island...
13. Part 13The Pyrates often take their rise here, or if not, seldom fail in the Course of their Adventures to visit these Seas. There are Multitudes of little Islands and Kays, besides th...
14. Part 14Ordinaries are filled with a Mixture of Land and Seafaring People, who have three or four sorts of Cookery at Dinner, and each a Pint of _Madeira_, with a Desart of Guavas, and...
15. Part 15_W._ Thence, having wooded and watered, bound with our Prizes and Prisoners to Cape _Corso_; the General, and chief Merchants there, being in the Commission, (brought out of _En...
16. Part 1620. The _Navy Surgeon_: Or, _A Practical System of Surgery_. Illustrated with Observations on such remarkable Cases as have occurred to the Author’s Practice in the _Royal Navy_...