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A35221	The English acquisitions in Guinea & East-India containing first, the several forts and castles of the Royal African Company, from Sally in South Barbary, to the Cape of Good Hope in Africa ... secondly, the forts and factories of the Honourable East-India Company in Persia, India, Sumatra, China, &c. ... : with an account of the inhabitants of all these countries ... : also the birds, beasts, serpents and monsters and other strange creatures found there ... : likewise, a description of the Isle of St. Helena, where the English usually refresh in their Indian voyages by R.B.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1700 (1700)	Wing C7318; ESTC R21090	118,185	190

Moon But this and much more must be left to the Criticks as well as the following Relation of our little Eye-witness and great Discoverer which you shall have in his own Spanish Style and delivered with that Grandeur and thirst of Glory which is generally imputed to that Nation It is known to all the Countries of Andaluzia that I Domingo Gonsales was born of a Noble Family in the renowned City of Sevil My Fathers name being Therando Gonsales near kinsman on the Mothers side to Don Pedro Sanches the worthy Count of Almanera My Mother was the Daughter of the famous Lawyer Otho Perez de Sallaveda Governour of Barcellona and Corrigidor of Biscay I being the youngest of seventeen Children was put to School and designed to the Church But Heaven purposing to use my Service in matters of far another Nature inspired me with spending some time in the Wars It was at the time that Don Ferando the renowned Duke D' Alva was sent into the Low Countreys in 1568. I then following the current of my desire leaving the University of Salamanea whither my Parents had sent me without giving notice to any of my Friends got through France to Antwerp where I arrived in a mean condition For having sold my Books Bedding and other things which yielded me about 30 Duckets and borrowed twenty more of my Fathers Friends I bought a little Nag wherewith I travelled more thriftily than usually young Gentlemen do till arriving within a League of Antwerp some of the cursed Gueses set upon me and bereaved me of my Horse Money and all so I was forc'd through necessity to enter into the Service of Marshal Cossey a French Nobleman whom I served in an honourable imploy though mine Enemies to my disgrace affirm I was his Horse-keepers Boy But for that matter I refer my self to Count Mansfield and other Persons of condition who have often testified to many worthy men the very truth of the business which indeed was this Monsieur Cossey being about this time sent to the Duke D' Alva Governour of the Low Countreys he understanding the Nobility of my Birth and my late misfortune judging it would be no small honour to him to have a Spaniard of that Quality about him furnished me with a Horse Arms and whatever I wanted using my Service after I had learned French in writing his Letters because my Hand was very fair In time of War if upon necessity I sometime dressed my own Horse I ought not to be reproacht therewith since I count it the part of a Gentleman to submit to the vilest Office for the Service of his Prince The first expedition I was in was when the Marshal my Friend met the Prince of Orange making a Road into France and forced him to fly even to the Walls of Cambray It was my good Fortune to defeat a Trooper by killing his Horse with my Pistol who falling upon his Leg could not stir but yielded to my mercy I knowing my own weakness of Body and seeing him a lusty tall Fellow thought it the surest way to dispatch him which having done I plundered him of a Chain Money and other things to the value of 200 Ducats This Money was no sooner in my Pockets but I resumed the remembrance of my Nobility and taking my audience of leave from Monsieur Gossey I instantly repaired to the Duke D' Alva's Court where divers of my Kindred seeing my Pocket full of good Crowns were ready enough to acknowledge me By their means I was received into pay and in time obtained favour with the Duke who would sometimes jest a little more severely at my Personage than I could well bare for though I must acknowledge my Stature is so little as I think no man living is less yet since it is the work of Heaven and not my own he ought not to have upbraided a Gentleman therewith And those glorious things that have happened to me may evince that wonderful matters may be performed by very unlikely Bodies if the mind be good and Fortune second our endeavours Though the Dukes joques a little disgusted me yet I endeavoured to conceal my re●…entment and accommodating my self to some other of his humors I was so far interested in his favour that at his going into Spain whither I attended him by his kindness and other accidents wherein by my Industry I was seldom wanting to my self I was able to carry home 3000 Crowns in my Pocket At my return my Parents who were extreamly disturbed at my departure received me with joy which was increased because they found I had brought wherewith to maintain my self without being chargeable to them or lessening the Portions of my Brothers and Sisters But doubting I would spend it as lightly as I got it they sollicited me to marry the Daughter of Iohn Figueres a considerable Merchant of Lisbon to which I complied and putting my Marriage Money and good part of my own into the hands of my Father I lived like a Gentleman many years very happily At length a quarrel-arising between me and Pedro Delgades a Gentleman and Kinsman of mine it grew so high that when no mediation of Friends could prevail we two went alone with our Swords into the Field where it was my chance to kill him though a stout proper man but what I wanted in strength I supplied in courage and my agility countervailed for his Stature This being acted in Carmona I fled to Lisbon thinking to conceal my self with some Friends of my Father in Law till the business might be accommodated At which time a famous Spanish Count coming from the West Indies published Triumphant Declarations of a great Victory he had obtained against the English near the Isle of Pines whereas in reality he got nothing at all in that Voyage but blows and a considerable loss It had been well if vanity and lying had been his only crimes His covetousness had like to have been my utter ruin though since it hath proved the occasion of Eternizing my name I verily believe to all Posterity and to the unspeakable benefit of all Mortals for ever hereafter at least if it please Heaven that I return home safe to my Countrey and give perfect Instructions how those almost incredible and impossible Acquirements may be imparted to the World You shall then see men flying in the Air from one place to another you shall then be able to send Messages many hundred miles in an instant and receive answers immediately without the help of any Creature upon Earth You shall then presently impart your mind to your Friend though in the most remote and obscure place of a populous City and a multitude of other notable Experiments But what exceeds all you shall then have the discovery of a New World and abundance of rare and incredible secrets of Nature which the Philosophers of former Ages never so much as dreamt of But I must be cautious in publishing these wonderful mysteries till our

of their strong Liquors for they lay up but little II. Sierra Leona THis Fort is in Bence Island and was likewise demolished by the French in the late War It is also rebuilding and will be secured by Sixteen Guns and Thirty Europeans besides Mulatto's and Blacks An Englishman dwelt a long time in one of the Isles having a fine House and was well beloved and protected by the Kings of that Countrey In the first War with Holland 1666. our Author being aboard a Dutch Man of War this English Factor writ to them divers times to come and Trade with them and told him he might do it with safety and upon Parole the Englishman called Abraham came aboard them in his Shallop rowed by three Slaves accompanied by a Hollander and two others which belonged to him and was kindly treated but afterward the Captain contrary to the advice of the rest treacherously made him a Prisoner and the three Moores with him to their great surprizal And Ian. 1. 1667. their great Shallop was manned out with thirty Men and one Cannonto Besiege his House which was built of Brick and Freestone defended with four great Guns incompassed with a fine Wood of Palmtrees which supplied him with Wine On one side were about twenty Cabines for the Natives and on the other a Spring of good Water it being the most beautiful Island upon the River Being about to land they discovered 200 Moores got together about the House with Firelocks and a greater number farther up in the Woods which obliged the Hollanders to make a show of going up higher as being weaker and so had more occasion for the wind but the Negroes thought they had been gone to Bowre and dispatch'd a Canoe to give the King of Boulom the Alarum which was persued by the Enemy who fired into their Boat and at length took them they were two young Slaves belonging to the Portugals who lived with the English Factory but would confess nothing of their Message The English in the House observing what passed fired at them with their Cannon and three of their Bullets fell within ten paces of the Boat The Hollanders got out of the reach of their Guns and came to an Anchor to wait the Tyde About an hour after two Moores belonging to one of the Neighbour Islands made up directly to them in a Canoe and came within Pistol-shot but would not be perswaded aboard the Dutch firing on them they fled and stooping for fear of their fire seemed no higher than Catts the English in the interim played upon them though they saw they were out of their reach to shew the Natives they had undertaken their Defence and desired their Friendship The Tyde coming in the Dutch retreated to their Ship wherein they found several Moores and Portugals and among them the King of Bouloms Son called Bembo about 35 years old well proportioned and abating his Blackness a handsom Man he was a great Friend of Abrahams the English Factor and when he understood he was a Prisoner interceded for his Ransom and on Monday noon came on board again with an hundred Elephants Teeth weighing nine hundred pound and two Civet Catts alive upon the delivery whereof Abraham was dismist the Hollanders giving him a little Barrel of Strong-Waters a Roll of Tobacco a Cheese and a Salvo of three Guns III. Sherbrow THis Fort is Scituate in York River fortified with Twenty Guns and a Garrison of an Hundred and Fifty white men besides Mulatto's and Negro's The Fort consts of two Palankeys exceeding strongly built of Stone and of a great height in forme of an half Moon The Religion of the Natives if we may so call it is generally Paganism they salute the New Moon with horrible roarings and strange gestures of Adoration they offer their Sacrifices in the Woods before great hollow Trees wherein their Idols are placed yet this they do rather out of Custom than Zeal using neither Form nor Method in their Devotions every one making a God after his own fancy some seeming to incline to Mahumatism others to Iudaism and many of them are Roman Catholicks yet divers affirm that God who giveth all things and can do what he pleaseth and causes Thanders Lightning Rain and Wind is Omnipotent and needs neither praying to nor to be set forth in so mysterious a way as that of the Trinity They believe that when People die they go into another World and will have occasion for many of the same things they use here and therefore put part of their Housholdstuff into the Grave with the dead Corps and if they lose any thing imagine their Friends in the other World had need of it and have taken it away They have no Letters nor Books yet keep Tuesday for a Sabbath forbearing then their Fishing and Husbandry and the Palm Wine which is gotten that day must not be sold but is offered to the King who bestows it on his Courtiers to drink at night On this Day in the midst of the Market-place they place a Table on four Pillars about three yards high whose flat cover is made of Straw and Reeds woven together upon which they place many Straw Rings called Fetisso's or Gods and within them set Wheat Water and Oil for their God whom they imagine devours it Their Priest they call Fetissero who every Festival day placeth a Seat upon that Table and sitting thereon preacheth to the People but what his Doctrine is the Europeans cannot understand After this the Women offer him their Infants whom he sprinkles with Water wherein a live Snake swims wherewith he likewise besprinkles the Table and then uttering certain words very loud and stroking the Children with some kind of Colours as if giving them his Blessing he himself drinks of that Water the People clapping their hands and crying I ou I ou and so he dismisseth this devout Assembly Many wear such Rings next their Bodies to preserve them from the mischiefs their angry God might inflict upon them in honour of whom they daub themselves with a kind of Chalky Earth which is their Morning Mattens At their eating the first bit and the first draught is consecrated to their Fetisso wherewith they besprinkle it If Fishermen have not a good Draught they present a piece of Gold to the Priest to reconcile them to their frowning Saint who with his Wives makes a kind of Procession through the Streets smiting his Breast and clapping his Hands with a mighty noise till he comes to the Shore where they cut down boughs from certain Trees and hang them on their Necks playing on a Timbrel Then the Priest turns to his Wives and expostulates with them and throws Wheat and other things into the Sea as an Offering to appease the Fetisso's displeasure against the Fishermen When the King Sacrifices to his Fetisso he commands the Priest or Fitessero to inquire of a Tree whereunto he ascribeth Divinity what he will demand The Priest comes to the Tree and in