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england_n	copper_n	coral_n	export_v	57	3	16.5104	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

so that if their Canoe overset at Sea ther are very little concerned all of them swimming back again to the place from whence they came and consequently they can Dive with great dexterity and fetch up any thing from the bottom About twelve their Fathers instruct them how to make a Canoe and catch Fish The Merchants bring their Sons acquainted with Europeans and with the Mystery of Trade At eighteen they begin to set up for themselves two or three together hiring a House and purchasing a Canoe they then cover their Nudities grow amorous and their Fathers look out Wives for them The Girls clean the Houses pick the Rice beat the Mays make the Bread clean the Kitchen buy and sell at Market make Baskets of Rushes and Matts which they weave extream curiously but their chief care is to provide Meat and Drink for their Parents secure their Goods and all other kinds of good Huswifry when grown up they are very lascivious and boast of their Gallantries especially with Strangers whom they seem to affect above their own Men They are very careful to keep their Teeth white have Wit enough but are very wanton with the Young Fellows stark naked to please whom they wash comb and plait their hair with great curiosity some paint their Foreheads and Eyebrows red and white and hang Pendants in their Ears all love Ribbons especially red they have Necklaces of Coral and Bracelets upon their Wrists Arms and Legs when they go abroad they weare a piece of Silk Taffaty or other Stuff wrapt about from the breast to the midleg and have always a great bunch of Keys though never a Coffer nor Trunk to open the Virgins make it their whole business to appear acceptable especially to white men and are seldom barren before though not very fruitful after Marriage For many years the English frequenting these Coasts made little benefit thereby for the Inhabitants perceiving their Gold so earnestly desired by all Nations set such a rate thereon and having been often beguiled they grew more wary in their bargaining and to the measure and goodness of their Commodities and though at first they knew no distinction of Christians but thought the Portugals and all other white men to be of the same Nation yet they have since learned the particular manners and dealing of each Countrey and have found the fairest Trade from the English who are therefore most welcome to them and speed best of any other Nation Especially since the Traders into these parts were Incorporated by their Charter dated Ian. 20. 1662. and intituled The Company of Royal Adventurers of England Trading into Africa or the Guinea Company The Limits of their Trade being from Sally in South Barbary to Cape de bona Esperanza or the Cape of Good Hope within which Limits all English Ships are prohibited to Trade unless Authorized by them The Commodities exported by the Royal Company to Africa are Iron Copper Slesias Sheets Says Perpetuana's Cowries Welch Plains Manillos Boysades Chints Romberges Coral Callico's Nicanies Clouts Amber Powder Muskets Batteries of all sorts Buckshaws Knives and Sheaths Swords Tallow c. For which they import from thence to England Gold Elephants Teeth Hides Malagueta or Ginny Pepper Red Wood Ambergreece with several other good Commodities besides numbers of Negroes for supplying the American Plantations to their great advantage The Royal African Company have Erected the following Forts and Castles upon the Coast for Securing their Commerce On the North Part of Guinea I Iames Fort in the River Gambia II. The Fort of Sierna Leona in Bence Island III. Sherbrow in York Island On the South Part of Guinea IV. Dickies Cove V. Comenda VI. Cape Coast Castle VII Fort Royal VIII Annamabo IX Winnebah X. Acra I. Iames Fort. THis Fort was formerly secured with eight Peices of Cannon but was demolished by the French in the late War It is now rebuilding much stronger and designed to have ninety Guns and a Garrison of Two Hundred and Fifty Europeans besides Negro's and Mulatto's The Government of this Place is reckoned worth about Two Thousand pound a year It is Scituate near Cape Verde so called from its continual greenness which makes it a delectable place being a Promontory which throws it self into the Sea covered with green Trees and causing a beautiful Prospect by reason of their evenness seeming as if planted by a line the Natives have generally small Bellies long Legs broad Feet long Toes sharp Sight quick Wits are Envious curiously Neat Thieves Letcherous subject to the Pox of which as well as their Pudenda they are not the least ashamed yet hold breaking wind backward a great incivility and wondred at the Hollanders for offering them such contempt They have Stomachs like Estridges as appears by their strange and usual repasts when they go to Market they wash from Head to Foot and put on other Cloths They buy only for one day Their Bread is made by stamping their Millet as we do Spice in a woodden dish steeping it over night with a little Maiz and in the morning laying it on a stone they grind it with another stone as Painters do their Colours till it be dough which they then temper with fresh Water and Salt and make Rolls thereof twice so big as a mans Fist baking them a little on the Hearth and then eat them Their Viands are raw flesh handfuls of Corn large draughts of Aqua Vitae Dogs Catts Buffles Elephants though stinking like Carrion and a thousand Magots crawling on them They have little Birds like Bullfinches which hang their Nests on the small ends of branches of Trees for fear of Snakes these they eat alive Feathers and all The Negro's say that up in the Countrey they eat dried Snakes and the guts of Dogs raw which our Author hath seen and a Boy who was left on Ship-board in pawn for Money would privately kill the Hens that he might eat the raw Guts They likewise eat raw stinking Fish dried in the Sun yet can dispence with dainties when they have them They make a kind of Ale of Mays and Water boyl'd together and putting it into a Vessel as large as a Kilderkin four or five place themselves round and drink it off each sending a little Pot full to his best beloved Wife They lay their hands upon the Head of him that drinks and cry aloud thrice Tautosi He must not drink off all but leave a little to throw on the ground to his Fetisso saying I ou spouting out some on the Arms and Legs of their Fetisso's supposing that otherwise they should not drink in quiet They are great drinkers and feed as unmannerly as Swine sitting on the ground not swallowing one Morsel after another but tear their meat to pieces and throw it into their Mouths which stand gaping to receive it they are always hungry and would eat all day long Yea the Europeans have great Appetites while they are there He that gets most drinks most