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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64941	A relation of the coasts of Africk called Guinee with a description of the countreys, manners and customs of the inhabitants, of the productions of the earth, and the merchandise and commodities it affords : with some historical observations upon the coasts : being collected in a voyage made by the Sieur Villault ... in the years 1666, and 1667 / written in French, and faithfully Englished.; Relation des costes d'Afrique appellées Guinée. English	Villault, Nicolas, sieur de Bellefond, 17th cent.	1670 (1670)	Wing V388; ESTC R3207	80,121	290

Rope they dip the other in the Sea and throw their handfull upon his head which is intended as a great instance of kindness and amity and in this they are so pertinatiously superstitious that without it they will never be forc'd nor perswaded to enter any Ship and when they would affirm any thing with more vehemence than ordinary they use the same ceremony They are so diffident and distrustfull they will never begot with all the art can be used either under deck or into any of the Cabains which the Mores of all other parts would do very freely They have a great fancy for bracelets of Iron with rings and bells upon them with which kind of Gallantry most of their arms and legs are plentifully furnish'd they have great store of Mulettoes among them We could not understand their language nor they speak one word of Portugais When they came first aboard us they cryed Qua Qua Qua which we found afterwards to be as much as you are welcome or good morrow for which reason the Hollanders have given the name of Quaqua to a good part of this Coast they made great use of that word especially if their Gutts had been filled The Commodities which this Countrey yeilds are Elephants teeth so large sometimes that they weigh 200 weight a piece and then they are worth 10000 livers If we may credit those that live on the Gold Coast which are their Neighbours they have so great number of Elephants that they are forc'd for their security against them to make their houses under ground They kill as many of them as they can but that which accommodates them with so many teeth is that the Elephants doe shed them every three year as the Staggs doe their Horns This Countrey affords likewise good store of Cotton of which they make a pritty sort of stuff strip'd with white and blew about three quarters broad and three or four ells long which is much valued amongst them and sold afterwards at a good rate upon the Gold Coast to cover their Pesantry there They have Gold amongst them likewise undoubtedly for without any Commerce or communication with their Neighbours they bind up their hair for the most part with hair laces of Gold very curiously made I made a sign to one of them to know which way they came by it and he show'd me the great Mountaines up the Countrey afar off and sign'd to me from thence for which reason he that should make further discovery of these parts would questionless encounter many rarities and without any great difficulties in regard the Countrey consists for the most part of Plaines The Inhabitants here are more afraid off fire armes then of all the inventions in Guinee The 26 of February we weigh'd anchor and continuing our course all Sunday about evening we made the Golden Coast and stood to it directly COSTE D' OR OR THE GOLD COAST With a Relation of our occurrences there MVnday the last of February we came to an anchor at sixteen fathom low water at Asbini the first place upon the Gold Coast The Countrey thereabouts is very low the Town is seate'd upon the mouth of a River of that name which runs up North-West amongst the Hills and South into the Sea we stay'd there 3 days bartring for Gold-Sand The 4th of March we past before Albiani Tabo and other Towns upon that Coast The Countrey there is but low likewise very full of Trees but no River at all Those Canoes which came aboard us having assured us they had no Gold we gave them the go by and past on We thought to have doubled the Cape of Apollonia that night but two of their Canoes coming up to us and promising fair we beleived them and cast anchor The next day some of their Canoes brought some Gold which we bought of them though it was not much This Cape throws it self a far into the Sea and raising it self by degrees into Hills and then into a Mountain makes no unpleasant prospect But it is of no good access the Sea beating so violently upon it there is great danger in approching We weigh'd anchor again that night but the weather being calme we could not reach Axime before Sunday in the afternoon at which time we came to an anchor Axime is a Fort belonging to the Hollanders some twelve leagues distant from the Cape Apollonia situate upon the side of a River which runs up Northward also into the Countrey and abounds with Gold-Sand which is esteem'd the best of all that Coast Its banks are higher than either Asbini or Cape Apollonia Before this place we stay'd all Sunday and Munday but perceiving the Dutch obstructed the Mores coming aboard us we weigh'd anchor on Tuesday and doubled the Cape de Tres-Puntas so called from three Mountains which appear so at a distance and by the convenience of their position do make two little but convenient Bayes In the afternoon we appear'd before Botrou which is another little Fort belonging to the Hollander situate beyond the Cape upon an eminence at whose foot runs a brook that is not unpleasant We stay'd here as long as we had any Trade and departed the 11th being Friday We weigh'd anchor at that time and came to anchor again betwixt Saconde and Takorai about six leagues distant from Botrou they are seated amongst the Mountains which lean as it were upon the banks of the River they lye so near it at which place we received Letters from the Governour of Frederisbourg not far from Cape Corse offring us his road if we pleased in consideration of the alliance betwixt France and Denmark desiring us also to secure some of his Merchandise for him We remained there Friday and Saturday and it was no small trouble to me to see an antient Fort which had been formerly ours in its ruines and rubbish it was at Takorai upon a Mountain which commanded the whole Countrey the sides of it spake it but barren being quite naked of either Trees or Grass and the stone of a reddish complexion On Sunday the 23th we weigh'd anchor and in two hours appear'd in the road de Comendo whose Inhabitants are greater lovers of the French than of any other Europeans The Town that may consist of about a hundred houses is built on the Sea-side and watered by a Rivulet which falling into the Sea likewise on the South forms a pritty Channel and Harbour for Canoes and Shallops The East-side lyes low but the West rises into a hill which being flat a top is very convenient to build upon The house appertaining formerly to the French stands upon the north-North-end of the Town which runs up into the Countrey and raises it self into little hills by degrees at whose feet there are very fair Fields and Meadows planted up and down with variety of fruit The Mores which came aboard us were in great anxiety and disorder to resolve which way they should signifie their joy Their King held