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A41375	The Golden coast, or, A description of Guinney 1. In it's air and situation, 2. In the commodities imported thither, and exported thence, 3. In their way of traffick, their laws and customes, together with a relation of such persons, as got wonderful estates by their trade thither.		1665 (1665)	Wing G1014; ESTC R6926	52,146	96

all the rest of the day and night it comes out of the South West and as for the Tide and Currant upon the shore it goeth continually with the wind Within twelve daies wee got off the Capes Des Palmas De Monte Westward of Sesto and De Verde untill wee were under the Tropicks dispersed by a Turnade and twenty daies after wee found our selves in the heighth of the Azores and forty daies after that wee fell upon the Coast of Ireland Southerly furnishing our selves with fresh water and sheep untill wee arrived in Plymouth where wee blessed God for our good Voyage CHAP. V. A third Voyage to Guinney THe fifteenth of October wee set sail from Plymouth and the first of December wee fell with the Isle of Porto Santo and next day with Mera The nineth wee fell thwart the Isle of Palme and Cape-Blank and the three and twentieth wee found our selves in the heighth of Serra Leona where the Currant falling like a Cataract detained us ten daies so that not before the sixth of January could wee discry the Coast of Guinney known by three Hills which lay North east and by East from us and two great Trees between the Hills Here we kept about to fetch the River De Sestos which we found we had over-shot where lay a Portugez rowing as fast as hee could to defend Mina along this River and that called De St. Andre wee found abundance of Elephants-Teeth till wee came to the Red Cliffs where wee made a league with the French and thence hovered about Tres Puntos obliging the Negroes with Margarites Basons and other little matters creeping along the shore by Mina Shama Hunta c. and the other bayes selling three yards of Cloath for an Angel Ducket all along which the Negroes liked so well that they discovered to us all the designs of the Portugez upon us shooting some peeces being the sign between us even the King of Abaan himself upon a little Present sent him engaging to command all the Gold in his Country to the shore in so much that in two months time wee had two hundred twenty three pounds weight of Gold When being frighted from our watering place wee had a device to use salt water untill wee came thwart Cape das Palmas from whence in four daies wee fell in with the high Cape Mensurado the twenty eighth of Aprill wee fell in sight of two Islands six Leagues off the Head land of Serra Leona regarding the Currants which set North North west the twelfth of May wee were in the height of Cape Verde the eighteenth we were directly under the Tropick of Cancer the first of June wee were in the height of St. Michael and the twenty third bearing in with the Lizard wee arrived safely at Foy. CHAP. VI. A fourth Voyage to Guinney THe last of December wee set out of the Sound of Plymouth and met with two hitches of Dantzick with enemies Goods and fearing wee should loose our Voyage if wee returned to England went directly to Spain and sold them only wee took a Hogshead of Aqua-vitae ten Tuns of Wine fix Cakes of Rozzen and some Chess-nuts for our own service the nineteenth of December wee had fight of the Grand Canary to which road avoiding that foul one of Tenariffe wee went the twenty eighth wee had sight of Riodel Oro almost under the Tropick of Cancer the height of Cape-Blank the six of January wee had a board the Cape de Verd having refreshed our selves at a bay Northward off it where the French trade for Gaunards little Birds so called Elephants-Teeth Musk and Hides The sixteenth of March wee fell with the Coast of Guinney five Leagues to the Westward of Cape de Monte besides a River called Rio das Palmas whence we set into the Rivers De Sesto De Rostos along the Coast whereof we had Gold and Elephants teeth enough for our Wares especially at Perinnen Laguon Wiumba Perecow and Eagrand Villages some four Leagues distance from one another and at Mowr Cormantine and Shamma where the Inhabitants would Trade with us but three daies in the week that is Munday Wednesday and Friday here wee got fourscore pound weight of Gold where being stayed by a Currant below which wee had run unawares we were belated on the Coast where they that stay till May hardly escape sickness especially near St. Thome or the Isle of Salt therefore as soon as wee could wee returned along St. Nicholas St. Lucia St. Vincent St. Anthony which four Isles lye the one from the other North West and by West South East and by East where wee discharged the Tyger in the Lee ward leaking passed all remedy whence wee came in ten daies within sight of two Isles of the Azores St. Mary and St. Michael and twelve daies after North West and by West of the Cape Finester within one hundred and twenty Leagues of England whether after a great storm West South West and West and the loss of our sail wee halled with an old Bonnet in the Fore-yard untill wee came to the Isle of Weight bringing home with us 171 Elephants Teeth weighing 1780 pounds and 22 Buts full of Grain Rules for Fortifications and Settlement at the Coast of Guinney observed by all that trade thither 1 THat the Ground so serve that it may bee by the Sea or a River on one side at least so that we may Lade and Unlade before it 2 That the Earth bee a good Mold 3 That wee have good Timber at hand 4 That we have plentiful and wholesome provision 5 That our Fortifications bee naturally strong 6 That wee have fresh Water at hand 7 That wee have good correspondence with the Negroes by little gifts and a noble appearance to defend or build our Fortification 8 That the King of Haban bee moved about the building of some forts so as that hee may not understand our meaning 9 That the Country be searched by Negroes of our own breeding along the Coast and in the Inland part of it 10 That upon the fall of the Coast about Cape-Blank wee beware how wee borrow in twelve ten fathome for within two or three casts of lead we may bee on ground 11 That the Negroes be not trusted but upon great advantage At a meeting of the Adventurers for Guinney IT was resolved 1 That Captain Peirce should bee sent to Deptford to Mr. Hickman for his Letters to Peter Williams to go about Rigging one of the Royal Ships and to Gillingham for mony 2 That every Partner should supply 29 l. 6. s. for every 100. l. value towards the new Rigging 3 That every of the Partners bring 50. l. for furniture 4 That the Voyage bee finished before April and the dangerous time of the year in Guinney 5 That they call in at Sancta Cruz and Tenariffe where by the way though it s as hot in Winter as in Summer yet there is Snow seen on the Pyke all the year for provisions 6

THE Golden Coast OR A DESCRIPTION OF GUINNEY 1 In it's Air and Situation 2 In the Commodities imported thither and exported thence 3 In their way of Traffick their Laws and Customes 4 In it's People Religion War and Peace 5 In it's Forts and Havens 6 In four Rich Voyages to that Coast Together with a Relation of such persons as got wonderful Estates by their Trade thither Quis nisi mentis inops Oblatum repuit aurum Licensed according to Order LONDON Printed for S. Speed at the Rain-Bow in Fleet-street 1665. AN Epistle to the READER WHen I look upon my Country and find it an Island when I consider its Interest and observe it is Trade when I survey its honour and Safety and conclude it is Shipping and the Dominion of the Narrow Sea according to that old advice of the Emperour Sigismund when in England to Henry the fifth in these old Verses made 233 years ago And to the King thus he said my Brother When he perceived two Towns Callice and Dover Out of an old book called the English policy in keeping the Sea Written 230 years ago Of all your Towns to choose of one and other To kÃ©ep the Sea and soon to come over To werre outwards and your Reign to recover KÃ©ep these two Towns sure and your Majesty As your twain eyes kÃ©ep the Narrow See For if this SÃ©e be kept in time of werre Who can here passe without danger or woe Who may escape who may mischief differ What Merchandy may foreby be ago For nÃ©eds them must take trewes every foe Flanders and Spain and other trust to mâ— Or Ellis hindred all by this Narrow Sea For four things our Noble sheweth to mee King Ship and Swerd and Power of the SÃ©e When I reflect on former ages and note the circumnavigators thus 1 Magellano a Spaniard 2 Sir Francis Drake an Englishman 3 Sir Tho. Candish an English man 4 Obwer Noore an Hollander two of the four our Country men And when I think of mine own time and meet with one Prince in his bed sick another in the field Warlike a third in Counsel troubled a fourth in distresse submitting a fifth in his cradle rocked a sixt in a Kingdome weary of it and our King only able knowing and careful to promote the Honor Commerce and Naval Glory of his Kingdomes as his Pleasure as well as his Interest And when I adde to all these our successes in Edward the third and fourths time against the French Our Victories in Qu. Elizabeths time against the Spaniards not to mention more modern Conquests of others our Neighbours I am pleased with an innocent thought that there is nothing at this time defective to our compleatnesse save a Lecture of Navigation in Gresham-Colledge in London answerable to that in the Contraction House in Sivill set up by Charles the fifth who wisely consid ring the rawnesse of the Sea-men and the manifold Shipwracks they sustained in passing and repassing from Spain to the West-Indies took this course to remedy it instead whereof Discoveries and Voyages give no little satisfaction Particularly this plain Relation of Guinney wherein I finde the Authour hath 1 Allayed mens fears in his Doscription of the Country 2 Directed their Courses in his Account of their Havens Rivers Winds Seasons Castles c. 3 Instructed their Commerce about their Traffique Commodities to be carryed thither and had there 4 Prepared their mindes about their living there in peace and warre 5 Furnished their Experience by several former Voyages thither 6 Encouraged their Hopes with particular instances of great estates got there in a little time 7 Guided their Fortunes with the way how to be Rich there in four years and truely made it appear why it is called The Golden Coast Where a man may gain an estate by a handfull of Beads and his pocket full of Gold for an Old Hat where a Cat is a Tenement and a few Fox tailes a Mannor where Gold is sold for Iron and Silver given for Brasse and Pewter The Place that cost Portugal 10000 l. the Discovery the Place whose Trade that Kingdom farmed out for 150000 l. a year and ours let out by Letters Patents In a word when I consider what is Related in this Book of Times past and what is done at present that of Salust comes in my minde SaepÃ¨ audivi ego Quintum Maximum Pub. Scipionem praeterea Civitatis nostrae preclaros viros solitos ita dicere cum majorum Imagines intuerentur vehementissimÃ¨ animum sibi ad virtutem accendi Scilicet non ceram illam neque figuram tantam vim in se habere sed memoriÃ¢ rerum gestarum flammam eam egregiis viris in pectore crescere neque priÃ¹s sedari QuÃ m virtus eorum famam gioriam adaequaverit I have often heard saith he how Q. Maximus P. Scipio and many other worthy men of our City were wont to say when they beheld the Images and Pourtraicture of their Ancestors that they were most vehemently inflamed unto vertue not that the said Pourtraicture or wax had any such force at all in its self but that by remembring their worthy Acts such a flame was kindled in their noble breasts as could never be quenched untill such time as their own valour had equalled the Fame and Glory of their Progenitors So say I let us imitate our Predecessors Farewel THE Golden Coast OR A DESCRIPTION OF GUINNEY The Situation of Guinney IT being very reasonable that the Curiosity of the Subject should enlarge its self as far as the Empire of the Soveraign that our Skill should keep pace with his Power and what hee hath Conquered for our benefit wee should understand for our advantage it is as reasonably inferred that our pens should go as far as his Sword and our discoveries for improvement as far as his acquists for enjoyment It is his care that wee may have power it s ours that wee have skill to traffique over the World the world that is open to our Trade and to our service wee being not now as of old divisi ab orbe Britanni separatists from the Universe but commanding the commerce of all Nations our Negotiation being not limited in a narrower compasse than the whole Earth and our dealing knowing no bounds but those of the world Europe affording us its Commodities America its Rarities Asia its Pleasure and Africa its Treasures Our Sugars come from the Canary Isles Du Bartas le Colâ—un porley From Candy Currans Maskadels and Oyles From the Moluccoes Spices Balsamum From Egypt Odours from Arabia come From India Gumms rich Drugs and Ivory From Syria Mummie Black Red Ebony From burning â—hus from Peru Pearls and Gold From Rushia Furrs to keep the riâ—h from cold From Florence Silks from Spain Fruit Saffron Sacks From Denmark Amber Cordage Furs and Flax From France and Flanders Linnen Wood and Wine From Holland Hopps Horse from the Banck of Rhine From Tangier Beasts all Lands

That there bee a Committee of Seamen for regulating the Voyage 7 That the Committee keep a book of their proceedings 8 That all misdemeanours bee tried by twelve men 9 That there be the names of Gentlemen privately set down to succeed the Captains if they dye 10 That there bee an Inventory of all Tacklings Munition and Furniture drawn before they set out 11 That they pass not to the Northeastward of the sixteenth degree but keep their course by Cape de Buena Speranza 12 That they appoint places to meet in case they are separated by a tempest leaving tokens in the respective promontories 13 That you deal honestly and courteously with the Ethnicks so as to procure their friendship and good liking especially you must take care of your word and promise 14 That no man sell any thing about him but in the publick stock 15 That a Table of Orders bee set up in each Ship 16 That some Negroes bee brought over to settle a further trade The Merchandize Wares and Commodities that are most desired in Guinney 1 OLd Hats and Caps 2 Cats to catch their Mice for there it was Whittington was made an Alderman by a Cat. 3 Salt 4 Swords Daggers Knives Frize-Mantles and Gowns Clothes Red Caps Axe-heads Hammers short peeces of Iron little Belts Sheep-skin Gloves Leather-Bags 5 Manils of Brass or Iron 6 Basons most Lattin or Flanders and Ewers 7 Course tin Pots 8 Beads Corals 9 Course Red Cloath Linnen and Kersie 10 Lavers and great Dutch Kettles with handles 12 Graved Brasen Vessels 13 Horse-tails 14 Great Pins 15 Patch'd Sheets and course French Coverings 16 Sleight Flanders Casket and Chests of Roan of a low price A note of the heights of the most eminent places in the South Sea IMprimis Cape Cantin standeth in latitude thirty two degrees four minutes Item The Island Mogador standeth one and thirty degrees thirty minutes Item Cape de Ore thirty degrees twenty minutes Item Islands Canaries twenty eight degrees Item Cape Badacor twenty seven degrees thirty minutes Item Cape Verde fourteen degrees thirty minutes Item Serra Leona eight degrees Item Island called Ilha Verde seven degrees thirty minutes Soundings on the Coast of Guinney IMprimis Going unto Serra Leona having the Cape East North East off you seven Leagues off you have twenty two fathomes brown Sand and halling in you shall finde very fair shoalding you may bee bold to borrow on the Southermost shore but beware the Rock that lyeth in the fair way a good bredth off the shore two miles off the South Bay Item You may borrow hard by the Rock for on the Northern part of it there lyeth a Long Sand which runneth South East and North West distant from the South shore two Leagues and you will Anchor in fourteen or fifteen fathomes hard by the shore Item Sailing to Ilha Verde ten Leagues to the Southward of Serra Leona the course is South South West and North North East and there are betwixt them nine or ten fathomes and if you Anchor in that place you have five or six fathomes hard by the shore Item Being bound Southward you must go West South West off for fear of the shoald that is called Madera Bomba the which shoald is to the Southwards of the Island Item You must alwaies remember the great Currant that setteth along the Coast of Guinney to the Eastward CHAP. VII The Merchandize and commodities of Guinney BEfore the Pertugez came thither they had very little or no Merchandize to traffick withall only they had plenty of whatever is needfull for mans sustenance in the former time they brought their Gold unto the Portugez but the People dwelling further within land durst not venture to trade with them or any other White-men and men apparrelled therefore they do now bring their Gold to the Sea side thus Betimes in the morning they come a board our Ships with their Canoes or Scuts betimes in the morning I say for that in the morning the wind which they call Bofone bloweth off from the Land and then it is calm smooth water for about noon the wind which they call Agem-Bretton begins to blow out of the Sea and then they row to Land again the people that dwell within the Land not brooking the Sea for when they are aboard they can scarce go or stand but lye down spue like Dogs and are very Sea-sick but their Rowers or Pilots that carry them are hardy enough and rarely are sick by reason of their dayly using to the Seas But some of their Merchants when they come aboard our Ships are so sick that they cast out all that are within their bodies and by reason of their being so sick in fair weather they are so afraid of the wind when the Waves go any thing high that they make as much haste home as they can and some of them dare not venture upon the Seas to go aboard the Ships but deliver the mony to the Pilots or Factors telling them what Merchandize they desire to have and those Tolken come with the Gold aboard the Ships having a Purse which hangeth about their middles wherein they put their Gold and every several mans Gold is in a peece of cloath or paper by it self and they can tell which is every mans and what Wares hee desireth for it and sometimes they desire to have mens Gold to bestow which is called an English of Gold and of some two or three or more and when any of their mony is not weight then they put it into their Purse and carry it to the man again for if they should put any thing to it to make it full weight the Merchant would not give it them again for they weigh their Gold first upon the Land and know how much it is before they send it aboard the Ship for they credit not one the other and when they have bestowed their mony then wee must give them something to boot which they call Dache When we began to Traffick here in the Country with two or three Ships as one of Middleburgh one of Amsterdam and one of Schiedam and that all our Ships met and lay at Anchor together to sell our Wares the one Ship seeing that the other Trafficked more and vended more Wares than his fellows to finde the means to get the Merchants aboard their Ships they willed the Pilots with whom they must hold friendship for they carry the Merchants aboard to bring them aboard their Ships and they would give them something for their labours and the Pilots accordingly to get something brought them aboard that Ship which had made them that offer for they are very covetous which the other Ships perceiving willed the Pilots to bring the Merchants aboard their Ships and they would likewise give them something and they made them answer that if they would give them as much as the other did they would come aboard their Ships which they promised to do and gave them more Dache

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