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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

follow the people called Melanogetuli and Pharusit which wander in the wilderness carrying with them great gourds of water The Aethiopians called Nigritae occupy a great part of Affrica and are extended to the West Ocean Southward also they reach to the River Nigritis whose nature agreeth with the River of Nilus for as much as it is increased and diminished at the same time and bringeth forth like Beasts as the Crocodile By reason whereof it may be thought that this is the same River which the Portugals call Senega for this River is also of the same nature It is furthermore marvellous and very strange that is said of this River and that is that on the one side thereof the Inhabitants are of high stature and Black and on the other side of brown or tawny colour and low stature which thing also the Travellers in the Voyage confirm to be true There are also other People of Lybia called Garamautes whose Women are Common for they contract no Matrimony neither have respect to Chastity After these are nations of the people called Pyrei Sathio daphnitae Odrangi Mimaces Lynxamatae Dolopes Aganginae Leuci Aethiopes Xilicei Aethiopes Galcei Aethiopes and Nubi These have the same situation in Ptolome that they now give to the Kingdome of Nubia Here are certain Christians under the dominion of the great Emperour of Aethiopia called Prester John From these towards the West is a great Nation of People called Aphricerones whose Region as far as may bee gathered by conjecture is the same that is now called Regnum Orguene confining upon the East part of Guinney from hence Westward and somewhat towards the North are the Kingdomes of Gambra and Budomel not far from the River of Senega And from hence toward the inland Regions and along by the Sea Coast are the Regions of Ginota or Guinney which we commonly call Ginnee In the West side of these Regions towards the Ocean is the Cape or Point called Cabo Verde or Caput Viride that is the Green Cape to which the Portuguls first direct their course when they sail to America or the Land of Brasile Then departing from hence they turn to the right hand toward the quarter of the wind called Garbino which is between the West and the South But to speak somewhat more of Aethiopia although there are many Nations of People so named yet is Aethiopia chiefly divided into two parts whereof the one is called Aethiopia under Aegypt a great and rich Region to this pertaineth the Island Meroe embraced round about with the streams of Nilus In this Island Women reigned in old time Josephus writeth that it was sometime called Sabea and that the Queen of Saba came from thence to Hierusalem to hear the wisdome of Solomon From hence towards the East reigneth the said Christian Emperour Prester John whom some call Papa Johanner and others say that he is called Pean Juan that is great John whose Empire reacheth far beyond Nilus and is extended to the Coasts of the Red-Sea and Indian-Sea The middle of the Region is almost in sixty six degrees of longitude and twelve degrees of latitude About this Region Inhabits the People called Clodi Risophagi Babylonii Axiunitae Molili and Nolibae After these is the Region called Troglodytyca whose Inhabitants dwell in Caves and Dens for these are their Houses and the flesh of Serpents their Meat as writeth Pliny and Diodorus Siculus they have no speech but rather a grinning and chattering There are also People without Heads called Blemines having their eyes and mouth in their breast Likewise Strucogaphi and naked Gauphasantes Satyrs also which have nothing of men but only shape Moreover Oripei great Hunters Mennones also and the Region of Smyrnophora which bringeth forth Myrrhe After these is the Region of Azaniah in the which many Elephants are found A great part of the other Regions of Affrica that are beyond the Aequinoctial line are now ascribed to the Kingdome of Melinde whose Inhabitants are accustomed to traffick with the Nation of Arabia and their King is joyned in friendship with the King of Portugal and payeth Tribute to Prester John The other Aethiope called Aethiopia interiour that is the Inner Aethiope is not yet known for the greatness thereof but only by the Sea-Coasts yet is it described in this manner First from the Aequinoctial towards the South is a great Region of Aethiopians which bringeth forth white Elephants Tygers and the Beast called Rhinocerotes Also a region that bringeth forth plenty of Cynnamon lying between the branches of Nilus Also the Kingdome of Habech or Habasia a region of Christian men lying both on this side and beyond Nilus Here are also the Aethiopians called Itchthiophagi that is such as live only by Fish and were sometimes subdued by the Wars of great Alexander Furthermore the Aethiopians called Rhapsii and Anthropophagi that are accustomed to eat Mans flesh Inhabit the regions near unto the Mountains called Montes Lunae that is the Mountains of the Moon Gazaria is under the Tropick of Capricern After this followeth the rout of Affricks the Cape of Buena Speranza or Caput bonae spei that is the Cape of good hope by the which they sail from Lisbon to Calecut But by what names the Capes and Gulfs are called for as much as they are in every Globe and Card it were here superfluous to rehearse them Some write that Affrica was so named by the Graecians because it is without cold for the Greek letter Alpha or A signifieth privation void or without and Phrice signifieth cold for indeed although instead of winter they have a cloudy and tempestuous season yet is it not cold but also smoothering hot with hot showers of rain also and somewhere such scorching winds that what by one means and other they seem at certain times to live as it were in furnaces and in manner already half way in Purgatory or Hell Gemma Phrisius writeth that in certain parts of Affrica as in Atlas the greater the Air in the night season is seen shining with many strange fires and flames rising in manner as high as the Moon and that in the Elements are sometime heard as it were sometimes the sound of Pipes Trumpets and Drums which noise perhaps may be caused by the vehement and sundry motions of such fiery exhalations in the Air as we see the like in many experiences wrought by Fire Air and Wind the hollowness also and diverse reflections also and breakings of the Clouds may be great cause hereof besides the vehement cold of the middle region of the Air whereby the said fiery exhalations ascending thither are suddenly stricken back with great force for men common and dayly experience teacheth us by the whissing of a burning Torch what noise Fire maketh in the Air and much where it striveth when it is inclosed with Air as appeareth in Guns and as the like is seen in only Air inclosed as in Organ-Pipes and such other instruments that go by wind

as God distributes To Englands Treasure pay their early Tributes § The World is divided into two parts viz. 1 Unknown or not yet fully discovered 1 In the Southern Continent 2 On the North of Africa and America 2 Known The Known Anciently into Europe Asia Africa Lately into America Africa is partly by Nature and partly by Art divided into six parts 1 Barbary 2 Egypt 3 Num●dia● 4 Lybia 5 Aethiopia Superiour 6 Aethiopia Inferiour Guinney is part of that place they call terra Nigritarum or the Land of Negroes which is bounded on the East with Aethiopia Superiour on the West with the Atlantique on the North with Lybia deserta on the South with the Aethiopick Ocean and part of Aethiopia Inferiour The People called Nigrita give the Land its denomination and the River Niger that runs through there gives them theirs or rather indeed their colour which they are so much in love with that they use to paint the Devil white according to this Stanza The Land of Negroes is not far from thence Neerer extended to 'th Atlantick Main Wherein the Black Prince keeps his Residence Attended with his Jeaty-coloured train Who in their native beauty most delight And in contempt do paint the Devil white § This terra Nigritarum is by that necessity that forceth mankinde to pitch upon their Meum and Tuum to set apart their respective allotments for Society and Commerce divided into 18. chief Kingdoms the ambition of those people being rather height than bredth rather to be Chief of a little place with authority than graspe at much with uncertainty thinking their little Scepters as bright though not as big and their Coronets as glorious though not as large as those of greater Princes Pride we say is the Sin of Youth and Covetousness of Old age The old Kings aimed at the vastness the new ones only at the Honour of Empire These eighteen Kingdomes are there 1 Tombutum on the further side of Sanaga which rising out of the Lake Guoga runs under ground some miles and losing its name runs thence under the Notion of Gir little inferour to Nilus for the length of its course the variety of strange creatures bred therein or the distinction it makes in the face of this Country the people on the one side of it being Black and on the other Tawney the soyl on the one side very barren on the other fruitfull whence it falls into the Atlantick by two great out-lets Exceeding plentiful is this place of Corn Cattle Milk Butter destitute of Salt but what they buy of Foreign Merchants at excessive rates well watred by the River Niger 2 Metts Eastward of Tombutum on a branch of the River Niger in bredth three hundred miles abounding with Corn Cattle Cotton-wooll together with most witty civil wealthy and industrious people Homagers and Tributaries to the King of Tombutum 3. Geneoa betwixt Tombutum and Metts on the Ocean lying open without either Town or Castle to the Traffick or Conquest of Barbary or any other Coast that will take the pains for that uncoyned Treasure of Gold that is left on the banks of Niger upon its monthly over-flowings 4. Gieber Eastward of Gheneoa the Countrey of Shepherds where those Mountains are whereof the Marriners say a man may chuse whether he will break his heart in going up or his neck in coming down 5. Gumbra bordering on the Atlantick and affording good store of Rice the receptacle of uncustomed goods a place of refreshment to Merchants in their passage to the Indies where they bestow their stock until they are taken off by the next years Fleet. 6. Gialofi between the Rivers Sanagh and Camb●ca where the people can leap upon a Horse in full gallop and stand in the Saddle when he runneth fastest the King whereof Bemoin by Name would have been a Christian Anno 1489. had not Pedro de Roy the Portugal General shamefully murthered him 7. Ora-Antirota a long tract of Sandy and barren ground extended from Cape le Blunci to the River Cornugh where the Portugez in their Fortress Arquin commanded the Trade of Porto de Dio. 8. Gualata an hundred miles off the Sea beyond Ora-Antirota full of Dates Milk and Pulse 9. Agudez bordering on Targue one of the five Desarts of Lybia where mens Habitations are onely Bowers and their Trade grazing 10. Cano on this side of the River Canagu full of Rice Cittorns Pomgranats and Cotton-wool well watred and too well wooded until the Portugez taught the Inhabitants to burn down their Wood Pantarius the fire whereof was so dreadful that all the Inhabitants were forced twelve miles into the Sea and the Ashes thereof so much that it enriched that barren Country so farre that it yeilded in some places sixty in some places seventy and in some eighty fold 11. Catena on the East of Cano affording onely Milk and Barley and a people of great Noses and vast lips so stubborn that not one of them ever turned Christian so well governed that the Common people have no doors to their Houses that being the priviledge of Nobles and so civil to Women Nub. Geog. ch 6. a second England that the little King himself if he meets any of them in the streets giveth them the way 12. Sanagu on the other side of the River of that name extended to the Atlantick-Ocean as far as Caput Vinde or Cape Vert a rich and plentiful Country that affordeth several Commodities for the several daies in the year 13. Nubia which hath on the West Garga on the North Egypt on the East Nilus which parteth it from Ethiopia Superiour or the Habastine Empire formerly Christian where the Nubian Geography was written which gives so much light to ancient Customes but since Mahumetan for want of Ministers to instruct them It being reported by Alvarez the Writer of the Ethiopick History that when hee attended in Prester John's Court there came Ambassadors out of Nubia to entreat a supply of Preachers to teach their Nation and to recover lost Christianity but were irreligiously affronted in their negotiation and rejected in their suit Besides Mahumetanisme there is another poyson in this Country P.H. Corm of which the tenth part of a grain will dispatch a man in a quarter of an hour and is sold at ten Duckets an ounce the Customes for which to the King is as much as the price to the Merchants But for this one ill Commodity yeilding many good as Corn Sugar Civet Sanders Ivory and maintains a great trade with the Merchants of Caire and Aegypt in the great City Dongula that containeth twelve thousand Families and not one House 14. Guoga lyeth between Berneo and the Desarts of Nubia extended four square six hundred miles where a Slave selling Men for Horses 1420. got up to be a little King though their Bowers rather than Houses being tyed together and set on fire once a year he is burned yearly out of his Territories 15. Bornue a large

wee have their Cotton yarns Hides and what they sell at the dearest rate Slaves and Children which the Parents will trappan to the Sea side and sell away for a Crown It also yeeldeth good Trennuelis like milk when the Tree is cut down which cometh out of the body thereof having hanged three or four daies they are through ripe the Tree bears but one bunch at a time whereon there is at least a hundred Figs or more and when they cut off the bunch of Figs the Tree also is cut down to the ground the root staying still in the earth which presently springeth up again and within a month hath its full growth and so all the year long no time excepted The tree beareth fruit very delicate to eat you must pull off the husk wherein the fruit lyeth very delightfull to behold the colour whereof is whitish and somewhat yellow when you bite it it is soft as if it were Meal and Butter mixed together it is mellow in biting it cooleth the Maw much thereof eaten maketh a man very loose and raw in the throat it maketh women leacherous if they eat any store Some are of opinion because it is so delicate a fruit that it was the same Tree that stood in Paradise whereof God forbad Adam and Eve to eat It hath a very good smell like Roses but the taste is better The Portugals will not cut it through with a knife but break it by reason of a special observation which they have in the cutting thereof which is that then it sheweth like a cross in the middle of the fruit and therefore they think it not good to cut it The Bachonens by us so called are very like the Bannanaes for the condition and form is all one only that the fruit is smaller shorter white of colour within and sweeter of taste and is esteemed wholesomer to bee eaten than the Bannanaes but there is no such great quantity of them and for that they were first brought out of the Kingdome of Congo into other Countries they have gotten the name thereof The Annanas is also a delicate and pleasant fruit for smell and of the best taste that any fruit can bee it hath also diverse several names there are two sorts the Male and the Female the Cannarians call it Annanasa the Brasilians Nana those of Hispaniald Jajawa and the Spaniards in Brasilia Pinas because one of them found that and the Pinas first in Brasilia It is as great as a Mellon fair of colour somewhat yellow Green and Carnation when it begins to bee ripe the greenness turneth into an Orange colour it is of pleasant taste and hath a fine smell like an Apricock so that it is to bee smelt a far off when you see the fruit a far off being green it shews like Artichokes and is eaten with wine it is light of disgesture but eating much thereof it inflameth a mans body In Brasilia there are three sorts thereof the first Jajama the second Boniama the third Jajagma but in Guinney there is but one sort The time when they are in their flower is in Lent for then they are best it grows half a fathom above the ground the leaves thereof are not above Semper Vinum When they are eaten they are cut in round slices and sopt in Spanish Wine you cannot eat enough thereof it is very hot of nature and grows in moist ground the sops that you take out of the Wine taste like sweet Musk and if you do not presently wipe the knife wherewith you cut the fruit but let it lye half an hour it will bee eaten in as if there had been strong water laid upon it being eaten in abundance and without knowledge it causeth great sickness There are great store of Iniamus growing in Guinney in great fields which are sowed and planted like Turneps the Root is Iniamus and groweth in the Earth like Earth-nuts those Iniams are as great as a Yellow-root but thicker and fuller of knots they are of a Mouse-colour and within as white as a Turnep but not so sweet being put in a Kettle and sodden with flesh and then peeled and eaten with Oyl and Pepper they are a very delicate meat in many places it is used for bread and is the greatest meat that the Negroes eat The Battatas are somewhat redder of colour and in form almost like Iniamus and taste like Earth-nuts those two kinde of fruits are abundant in Guinney they are commonly rosted or else eaten with a Hodge-potch instead of Parsneps or Turneps The Palm-wine tree is almost like the Cocos-Tree or a Lantor with diverse others and are of three or four sorts most of them have all one kinde of leaf but in manner of Wood they are all unlike for this Tree is shorter of Wood then all the rest The Wine is drawn out of those Trees by boring them from whence there issueth a Sap like Milk which is very cool and fresh to drink at the first when it is drawn it is pleasant and sweet having stood a while it is as sower as Vinegar so that you may use it in a Sallet but being drunk sweet and fresh it causeth a man to void Urine well whereby in those Countries there are very few found that have the disease of the Stone by drinking much thereof a mans head will soon bee light but that lightness a man hath in his head thereby causeth it not to ake When it cometh first out of the Tree it is sweeter of taste than when it hath stood a while but yet it is esteemed better when it hath stood a while and is somewhat settled than presently to bee drunk for it standeth seething and bubling as if it hung over the fire and sod so that if it were put into a Glass and stopt up without letting any air come into it the force thereof would break the Glass in peeces but being a meal-tide old it is nothing worth because it is so sowre and then it is of another colour very waterish therefore it is much mixed with water and seldome comes pure into the Market as it is taken out of the Tree which is done partly to increase their Wine as also that then it is the sweeter to drink and hath the taste of Syder and the colour of Must when the Tree is old and will yeild no more wine at the top it is cut down at the foot and a fire made at the root thereof where they set a pot whereinto the Wine by reason of the heat runneth the Tree being changed and yeilding no more profit there groweth another Tree out of the root thereof but it is half a year old before it giveth any Wine in the morning betimes an hour before day the Wine is drawn out and brought to the Market at noon-time The Palmitas-Tree is not much to bee seen in Guinney but for that a Negro in that Country shewed mee the fruit thereof I thought good to say something