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A35254	A view of the English acquisitions in Guinea and the East Indies with an account of the religion, government, wars, strange customs, beasts, serpents, monsters, and other observables in those countries : together with a description of the Isle of St. Helena and the Bay of Sculdania where the English usually refresh in their voyages to the Indies : intermixt with pleasant relations and enlivened with picture / by R.B.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1686 (1686)	Wing C7356; ESTC R27846	109,445	213

only the secret Receit to take away the force of it who boasts that he has the most effectual Poyson in the World which there is no Remedy can prevent One time an Englishman in heat of Blood had killed one of the King of Macassers Subjects and though the King had pardoned him yet both English Hollanders and Portugals fearing if the Englishman should go unpunished the Islanders would revenge it upon some of them besought the King to put him to death which with much ado being granted the King unwilling to put him to a lingting death and desirous to shew the effect of his Poyson resolved to dispatch the Criminal himself whereupon he took a long Trunk and shot him exactly in the great Toe of the right Foot the place he particularly aimed at Two Chirurgeons one an Englishman the other an Hollander provided on purpose immediately cut off his Toe but for all that the Poyson had dispersed it self so speedily that the Englishman died presently All the Kings and Princes of the East are very diligent in inquiring after strong Poysons and some Europeans having tryed several of their Arrows by shooting at Squirrels observed they fell down dead as soon as they were touched These are the principal Acquisitions of the English in these remote parts of the World little or nothing more being to be said of the rest which are not very considerable and some of them since quitted by the Honourable East-India Company Having therefore compleated my usual scantling I shall here conclude FINIS Licensed Nov. 19. 1685. Ro. L'Estrange There are newly Published Fifteen very useful pleasant and necessary Books all sold by Nath Crouch at the Bell in the Poultrey near Cheapside I. THE English Empire in America or a Prospect of his Majesties Dominions in the West-Indies namely New-found-land New Engl. New-York New-Jersey Pensylvania Maryland Virginia Carolina Bermuda's Barbuda Anguilla Montserrat Dominica St. Vincent Antego Mevia or Nevis St. Christophers Barbadoes and Jamaica With an Account of their Discovery Scituation and Product The Religion and Manners of the Indians and other excellencies of these Countreys To which is prefixed a Relation of the first Discovery of this New-World and of the Remarkable Voyages and Adventures of Sebastian Cabot Sir Martin Frobisher Captain Davies Captain Weymouth Captain Hall Captain Hudson Sir Francis Drake Sir Thomas Cavendish the Earl of Cumberland Sir Walter Rawleigh and other English Worthies to divers places therein Illustrated with Maps and Pictures of the strange Fruits Birds Beasts Fishes Insects Serpents and Monsters found in these Parts of the World Price One Shilling II. THE Second Edition of Englands Monarchs very much enlarged Or A Compendious Relation of the most Remarkable Transactions and Observable Passages Ecclesiastical Civil and Military which have happened during the Reigns of the Kings and Queens of England from the Invasion of the Romans under Julius Gaesar to this present Adorned with Poems and Pictures of every Monarch from King William the Conqueror to our most gracious Soveraign King James the Second with his present Majes● Life Heroick Actions late gracious Declaration as other Occurrences to this time The Names of his no Majesties most Honourable Privy Council The Gre● Officers of the Crown A list of the Dukes Marquesse● Earls Viscounts Bishops Barons and Deans Th● Knights of the most Noble Order of the Garter at Win●sor and the Principal Officers Civil and Military i● England The number of the Lords and Common● who have Votes in both Houses of Parliament an● many other very useful particulars Price One Shilling III. THE History of the Kingdoms of Scotlan● and Ireland containing I. An Account● the most Remarkable Transactions and Revolutions i● Scotland for above Twelve hundred years past durin● the Reigns of Sixty eight Kings from the year of our Lord 424 to the Happy Union of both Kingdoms under King James the Sixth of Scotland and First of England of Blessed Memory in 1602. and among other particulars The lamentable Murther of King Duff● with the strange Discovery and Punishment thereof The wonderful History of Mackbeth and the Witches with the many Notable Occurrenes in his Reign 2. The History of Ireland from the Conquest thereof by King Henry the Second to this time With a Relation of the Miraculous Persons and Places in that Country A full Account of St. Patricks Purgatory and divers other memorable Matters Intermixt with Variety of of Excellent Speeches Strange Accidents Prodigious Appearences and other very considerable things both pleasent and profitable With a List of the Nobility and Great Officers of State in both Kingdoms Illustrated with near Thirty Pictures of several Kings and other extraordinary Observables Price One Shilling IV. DElights for the Ingenious In above Fifty Select and choice Emblems Divine and Moral Ancient and Modern Curiously Ingraven on Copper Plates with Fifty Delightfull Poems and Lots for the ●ore Lively Illustration of each Emblem Whereby ●●struction and Good Council may be promoted and ●thered by an honest and pleasant Recreation To which is prefixed an Incomparable Poem Intituled Ma●ty in Misery or an Imploration to the King of Kings written by his late Majesty King Charles the First with ●s own Hand during his Captivity in Caris-brook Cas● in the Isle of Wight 1648. With a curious Em●em Collected by R. B. Price half a Crown V. SUrprizing Miracles of Nature and Art in two parts containing I. The Miracles of Nature or the ●onderful Signs and Prodigious Aspects and Appearances in ●e Heavens Earth and Sea with an account of the most ●●ous Comets and other Prodigles from the Birth of ●●rist to this time II. The Miracles of Art describing ●e most Magnificent Buildings and other curious Intutions in all Ages as the Seven wonders of the World ●d many other excellent Structures and Rarities ●oughout the Earth Beautified with Sculptures ●ice One Shilling VI. THE Second Edition of two Journeys to Jerusalem Inlarged Containing first A ●nge and true Account of the Travels of two English ●grims some years since and what Admirable Accidents befel them in their Journey to Jerusalem Grand ●ire Alexandria c. With the wonderful manner of nothing many Thousand Chickens at once in Ovens ●condly The Travels of Fourteen Englishmen in ●69 from Scanderoon to Tripoly Joppa Ramah Jerusu● Jericho the River of Jordan the Lake of Sodom ●d Gomorah and back again to Aleppo By S. B. ●ith the rare Antiquites Monuments and memora● places and things mentioned in the Holy Scripture ●d an exact Description of the Old and New Jerusalem 〈◊〉 which is added a Relation of the great Council of 〈◊〉 Jews assembled in the Plains of Ajayday in Hungary ●50 to examine the Scriptures concerning Christ By ● B●●an Englishman there present With the notorious Delusion of the Jews by a counterseit Messiah or false Christ at Smyrna in 1666. and the Event thereof Lastly The fatal and final Extirpation and Destruction of the Jews throughout the Kingdom of Persia whereby many

A Guinean Monarch A VIEVV OF THE English Acquisitions IN GUINEA AND THE East-Indies WITH An Account of the Religion Government Wars strange Customs Beasts Serpents Monsters and other Observables in those Countries Together with A Description of the Isle of St. Helena And the Bay of Sculdania where the English usually refresh in their Voyages to the Indies Intermixt with pleasant Relations and Enlivened with Picture By R. B. Author of the English Empire in America Englands Monarchs and the History of Scotland and Ireland c. LONDON Printed for Nath. Crouch at the Bell in the Poultrey near Cheapside 1686. TO THE READER HAving in some late Tracts endeavoured to inform my Country-men of the Grandeur of the English Monarchy by giving them an Account of the Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland and likewise of His Majesties Dominions in America The Acceptance they have received hath incouraged me briefly to discover to them what many have only heard of by discourse that is the English Acquisitions in the two other Quarters of the World Africa and Asia wherein I have not so much considered matter of Trade as History by relating the most pleasant Passages I have met with concerning these Countreys If I have in some places seemed to divert from the Design of this small Collection by adding matters which may appear forein thereto I shall not ask pardon provided it prove either delightful or useful to the Reader my intent being in all things to please and not meddle with what may be offensive to any And if others would do the like there is no fear of their falling under such ill Circumstances as too many have too lately done to their cost by forgetting that wholsom Counsel Study to be quiet R. B. An Account of the English Acquisitions Upon the Coast of Guinea in Africa Sect. 1. THat Tract of Land called Guinea comprehends seven hundred Leagues from Cap Verd in fourteen Degrees of North Latitude and nineteen of East Longitude to Cape Gonsalvo in the first Degree of Southern Latitude and thirty of East Longitude The Portugals were the first that ranged this Shore and having some Intelligence of their Commodities and the manner of Trading with them by fair means and force together they got footing upon the Sea coasts building Forts in some and placing Garrisons and Factories in other places which they then found such a Golden Trade that they called some Coasts thereof by that name and perceiving it so beneficial to themselves and their Countrey it was an inducement as what will not Gold attract to their further search on these Maritine Coasts all along to the Cape of Good Hope and thereby consequently to the East-Indies The fair quarter and courteous usage which the Inhabitants received from the Portugals already setled there incouraged them to exchange their Commodities with them which Trade according to the Custom of that Kingdom was maintained by Factors upon the King of Portugals particular account in every Port and Town as if he intended the profits of Merchandizing should defray the charges of his Conquests and Garrisons furnishing the Natives with Salt Iron Tin Copper Basons Knives Cloth Linnen and other European Goods and receiving in exchange partly Cattle Corn Rice and the like but chiefly Gold it self in great abundance both in Sand and melted Ingots which gave Life and Briskness to the further Discovery of those Countreys and continuance of that Trade to this very day though not so considerable as formerly The English and other Nations desirous to share in this Rich Trade in short time Sailed thither and because they had no Forts to Protect their Persons and Goods from the danger of the Portugals and treachery of the Inhabitants they were compelled to Anchor along the Coasts near the greatest Towns of Concourse and signifying to the Negroes what Wares they had brought by their plausible demeanor they at length imboldened them to come aboard their Ships and bring their Gold the manner of which Trade was very different from that of any other Countrey For be●imes in the Morning the wind being then generally off the Shore and the weather calm the Natives came aboard in their Canoes and Scutes to Traffique some for themselves and some as Factors for others carrying at their Girdles a Purse wherein were several small Clouts or Papers containing the Gold belonging sometimes to ten several Men which though all of the same weight and goodness yet they readily distinguisht and having made their bargains for Cloth Linnen or the like at Noon they return'd with the Seabrize again to the Shore but beside the agreement these Factors have some small thing for themselves in reward for their Brokage but in process of time the Hollanders frequenting these Coasts and being well acquainted with the manner of the English Traffique and coming into the same places where the English Traded and were known they soon spoiled this Golden Trade by their sinister and indirect dealing for Anchoring with the English whom they found to have a better Trade than themselves they secretly bribed those Factors aforementioned to carry their Passengers and Merchants aboard their own Ships and not the English obliging them to Trade only with the Dutch Which Craft the English perceiving used the same Arts to ingage the Factors to themselves so that out-trying each other these Brokers commonly gained to themselves six or seven per Cent. to the vast prejudice of all Trade upon these Coasts for the future since this ill Custom must be kept up by all Succeeding European Merchants It was observed that many Negro Merchants who dwelt up in the Countrey coming to buy Wares of the Dutch with great quantities of Gold and divers Slaves thirty or more according to their Quality to carry back the Goods they should purchase and taking their Lodgings in the Houses of these Brokers whom they acquainted with their full Commissions and Intentions and to whom they delivered their Gold these Factors would go aboard the Flemish Ships with them to Trade and Barter and if the Negro Merchants were not skilled in the Portugal Tongue these Brokers would bid the Hollanders not to speak the Morisco Language to them because they Inhabited far within the Land thereby giving the Dutch the watch-word that they meant to deceive their Countreymen and afterward divide the Spoil so that the knavish Factor connived at the extravagant prizes of the Hollanders to draw the more Gold from the Merchant whom he likewise cheated sometimes by putting some of his Gold into his Mouth Ears or otherwise which the Merchant Negro finding wanting in the Scale adds to the Cheat himself by blowing into the Christians Ballance to make it weight The bargain being finished and the Negro again landed the Factor returns back to the Ship to share his ill got gains with the Flemings This way of proceeding was very detrimental to the English and other Christians that Trade upon these Coasts so that unless they likewise