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

we sell Iron a mile lower is Rio de St. Georgio Jubbe and Carrua where the Portugez have a House and good Fishing to furnish the Castle of Mina below here is Commando where wee sell Venetian Madrigetton and Corals for the common people traffick much therewith by grinding and selling them one to another small Copper Basons Blew Cloath and broad Linnen-Cloath in small parcels where their Gold is moulten and therefore very deceitful not far from which place is the Castle De-Demina to command Trade a mile below which is Cape Crostio Sailing a mile lower wee come to the chief place of Traffick called Mourre and a mile below that is Infantin and not far from that is the Castle Cormantin under the King of Fatus where wee have hoops for our Vessels Five miles lower is the fine Dairy-place Biambis whee they sell great Cows and fair Women not far off is Chinha a place of great Traffick with Canoes or Boules where a Gibbet is worshipped for a Fetisto or God Their Religion NO Nation so barbarous but owneth a Religion and a God these have Birds Hills Vale-Tree Gods every strange thing being divine with them in somuch that wee had much ado to keep them from worshipping a Bagpipe which for a great while they took for a living creature and still say it 's the work of the Gods as the Manichees so they hold two Gods one that doeth them harm and another that doeth them good which they say fight together yet they think there is a God whom they do not see but beleeve black like themselves for though say they wee sow Millia who sends rain to make it grow you can shoot say they but who thundereth therefore they pray to God under the notion of Juan Goemain Once wee had a Negro aboard imprisoned for counterfeiting of Gold who took every morning a tub with water in it and washed his face therein which done hee took his hands full of water and cast it over his head speaking diverse words to himself and after that spitting in the water which wee seeing asked him why hee did so whereupon hee answered hee prayed his Fetisso that it might rain that so his friends might finde much Gold to release him and hee might go home again some of them under the History of Christianity all beleeve they dye not and therefore they give their dead bodies something to carty to another world They keep their Fetissoes day one day in seven and that Tuesday a Sabbath it seems is natural more solemnly and stricktly than the Hollanders do their Sunday when they offer meat and drink to their Fetisso on a four square place covered with wires or Fetissoes straws which the Birds of the air which they call the Birds of God eat up Not far from which place their Fetissero sits on a stool with a pot of drink in his hand and the people about him stroking the people with a wisp and speaking something they will not tell us only when hee hath done they clap their hands and cry I ou I ou Thence they go with the Holy Straw-wisp which preserves them from the Fetissoes when they miscarry in Fishing Trading c. they think their Fetisso is angry then the Fetissor with all his Wives for hee hath ten at least goes up and down the City with sad groans and a drum to the tree which is the Fish Fetisso and from thence casts Millia to the water as if it were to the Gods but indeed to bring the Fish together these and many other computations they have which would bee as frivolous in the relation as they are in the performance CHAP. X. Their War and their Gentlemen THese little Kingdomes have often occasions of War among themselves and oftner with strangers upon both which occasions the King first calleth for his Guard i. e. twelve hundred men that have nothing else to do but to wait who sleep like dogs round his royall Cottage and if his occasions require more hee gives his Captains order to summon more who with such Drums as Children use to carry go up and down for a weekes space untill the rabble get together and painting themselves march out with their Fetissoes that is their Beads and Corals wherewith they think themselves secure there is a Holy Wreath of Bark about their necks the Ponyard hangs to the Girdle the Assagaie was in the right hand the Bow and Arrows in the left the whole Family follows every man all the Country is burned and destroyed that the enemy may not have where to invade nor the cowardly where to retreat the whole Kingdome surrounds the King and becomes a Court and in that posture march with their Turbands of Libards-skins having dispatched their Houshold-stuff into a neighbour Country They shoot strait and can hit the very breadth of a Stiver whom they take they enslave whom they kill they eat whom they conquer they take Hostages from their Ponyards are four fingers broad their Shields of Goat skin or Oxe hide four foot broad every man keeping six or seven of each by him upon all occasions with a Bow and Arrow stringed with the Bark of a Tree feathered with Dogs hair tipped with Iron and most commonly poysoned with a green Herb called Assapi their Drum is a peece of hollow wood covered with Bucks-skin and beaten with a wooden spoon In the Wars the Gentlemen have a peculiar priviledge and a Gentleman is made thus A man finding himself Rich presents the King with a Dog a Goat and a Cow and his neighbours with an Oxe and therewith a Feast is made with Palme-wine musick dancing and the man goes home a Gentleman and a begger having usually spent all his estate at the Installation After the Wars on the Coronation day and on the quarter daies for customes there is a Royal Feast whereat they are mad for three daies after which the King sets up the heads of the beasts he hath spent among his Fetissoes or Gods in his Hall in perpetuum rei memoriam for the Kings there have no design in their Grandeur but honour providing nothing for their Children but what they shall earn with the sweat of their brow How they agreed with us about their Lands THe people being perswaded that wee were an inconsiderable nation kept aloof a great while till on the 18th of January one Achor zano was ambitious to be the white mens Alcade or Factor whom wee entertained with a string of Christal and a double one of Coral about his neck and so with drinking a cup of Rosa solis and shooting off five thunders for so they call Muskets he was solemnly proclaimed Alcard Alcard he adding his fidlers musick the people their bows arrows and what improved the solemnity their wives as soon as he came on shore he distributes those Nuts whereof 500 buyeth a wife among his friends as a token of his joy in his new honour Nuts that have yet nothing to recommend