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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

of the wind weigh anchor and sayle towards the shore They entered then and told us it was a full year since they had seen any Whites that the next day they would bring good store of Ivory to the Sea side for us and that they might perform what they had promised after we had made them some small presents they took their leaves We came up within half a league of the land to the mouth of a little river they call Duro at the foot of the Cape where we found six fathom deep at low water This Cape is called Miserado by the Portugais either because it is incompass'd by rocks that lye under water and would inevitably destroy any Vessel which should come nearer then half a league or because the French which were formerly massacred there cryed out Misericorde Misericorde Besides the Natives of this place being very cruel they have denominated the river and called it Duro as being hard and fatal to the Whites Upon which score we fortifyed our shollop with a great Gun to fright them and keep them in order They set up a little house against we came in order to our negotiations but not another to be seen within less then half a league and those too in the woods The River Duro casts it self into the Sea on that side towards the Cape but is so small and inconsiderable it carrys nothing but Canoes At our coming on shore we found the Captain who governs those parts with several of his Officers sitting under a tree we presented them with two Bottles of Brandy which they drank freely and then conducted us to the house they had prepared and stay'd with us till night came on and we returned to our Ship The Captain was a very lusty man of a severe aspect in a Robe like that of the Alcair de Rio-Fresca saving that his was red with a bonnet of the same colour he was attended by 50 or 60 Negroes with great darts bows arrows and swords and with some few women which they sent back again to the Woods not above fifty paces from our lodge from whence we never durst trust our selves above ten They ask'd us whether we came as enemies or friends observing it seems the Canon in our shallop We told them that we could not but take notice that they came with their armes contrary to the custom of all other places we had traded in and that we did was but to secure our selves and our Merchandises which we should bring on shore by degrees and according as we sold what we had brought Some of the Captains Women lugging their children along with them came to see us at our lodge and we were forc'd to present them though the Captain was so refractory what Ivory soever he expos'd to truck or to sale he ask'd with that unreasonable confidence there was no reason to give it They all of them spake Portugais and were all of them clothed Whilst we were at dinner the Captain demanded some one of us to stay with him and I very couragiously proffered to be the man which he took so kindly he took me by the hand and put it into the hand of one of his daughters with this complement that he gave her me for my Wife after which we grew very intimate and great He took me and shew'd me to the rest of the Mores who called me their kinsman and friend promised me S●aves carryed me along with them and setting me in the midst of them they made me drink of their Palm-wine One of the Officers that din'd with us I observ'd to throw Wine upon the ground before he drank I ask'd him the reason and he told me that if his dead Father should be dry he would come thither to drink We had a sight too of some of their Priests but their habits being the same with what we saw afterwards upon the Golden Coast I shall pass them by in this place with this animadversion only that they carry themselves towards them with great deference and respect believing every word they spake an Oracle The Captain shew'd me one of them and told me if I had lost any thing he could tell me where it was and cry'd him up as he had been a Prophet But above all things their greatest superstition is of their Fetiches Their Traffick is principally Ivory which indeed is excellent and Rice in great abundance The English have a ware house beyond the Cape and are in great favour with the Mores who used us ill in no respect but as they thought us enemies to them When we returned to our Vessel we promised to be with them again the next morning but observing they had brought us good quantity of Ivory at first which was not afterwards to be seen we had a suspicion might be a design of the English to amuse us with their Trade whilst they could get more men together out of the Countrey Upon which grounds that very night though one of our Officers left a golden ring with the Captain as a gage for his word we weigh'd anchor and away for Rio-Sextos Being on the other side of Cap-Miserado we discovered fires which the Mores had made along the shores which is the ordinary signe they use to signifie to such Ships as pass by that they have Merchandise for them upon which accompt we resolved to cast anchor RIO DE JVNCO ABout 9 or 10 a clock we came to an anchor directly over against the fires upon the shore we shot of 2 great Guns to invite them aboard but seeing none of them come we mann'd out our shallop after dinner and sayl'd towards them with some few Merchandises but we could not reach the shore within fifty paces without inevitable danger of bulging Seeing some Mores upon the banks we made signes to them to come to us and they came swimming half way and went back again nor could all our alurements win them aboard till at last two of them ventured in a Canoe and were kindly received which they on the shore observing three of them threw themselves immediately into the Sea ond swam to us we presented them with a bottle of Srong-waters which they carryed on shore to their infinite satisfaction we shew'd them our Kettles and what other Commodities we had at the sight of which they made a thousand expressions of joy and could have done no more if Paradise it self had been shown them they ask'd us if we had any large white Rasade Those which were upon land held up great and great quantity of Elephants teeth to hasten us them but having used our utmost endeavour to no purpose and finding it impossible to come at them without manifest danger we sent back the 2 Mores which came to us to them Who by their aspect and Mine seem'd to be persons of more then ordinary quality Rio de Junco is a River which lyes five degrees and fifty minutes of Northern latitude and of Eastern longitude 9 degrees

10 minutes The mouth of it is known by three great trees which stand very high and three great Mountains over against them but at some distance into the land the mouth of it is near five hundred paces over but shallow the banks so well decorated with trees and flowers that considered with the smoothness and serenity of the stream they make a most admirable landship Orange-trees Citrons and Palme-trees are planted all along and in exquisite order and as the Mores which came aboard intimated to us they have abundance of all things especially Poultry and Palme-Wine We went aboard and perceiving no body came at us we set sayle that night and came the next moring before Petit Dieppe PETIT DIEPPE PEtit Dieppe is a Town not far from a River which casts it self into the Sea and in its passage twisting about a spot of ground forms it self into no contemptible Island it was formerly in the possession of the French but deserted long since at the disemboguement of this River there are many Rocks which make the entrance more then ordinary difficult We discovered a little Vessel upon this Coast and gave chase to it but without any success The 22d we came to Rio-Sextos whose description follows RIO-SEXTOS RIo-Sextos is a River which comes a great way down the land North and North-West and is about half a league over at the mouth of it On both sides it is set very pleasantly with Trees very large and very tall about three leagues up the River the English had formerly a house but there is nothing of it left but the Walls This River will carry a Yacht or a large Barke a douzaine leagues and more up in the Countrey It was called Rio-Sextos by the Portugais from a certain kind of Pepper which grows by it and is called Sextos by them the same I suppose with what we call Malaguette which I shall speake of more particularly in the next Chapter We were told by their fisherboats that about a fortnight before there pass'd two Flemish Vessels that way to the Mine that we might finde good quantities of Ivory but that their Canoes being so small it would be necessary for us to carry our Merchanhise on shore whereupon we anchor'd about half a league from land in about 16 fathom water Some of our Officers went a shore in our shallop and carryed some Commodities along with them to begin the Commerce they carryed them three leagues up the River and their King who lived yet higher into the Countrey came down to see them and according to Custome had his usual presents They came back very late and the Notary at his return gave me this accompt of him that he was a very lusty man with a stern and supercilious aspect that he profess'd great frienship for the English That he brought down great store of Ivory with him but having furnished the two Flemish Vessels so lately he held it so dear there was no dealing with him for it That they seem'd worse natured then the Mores at Miserado But that the River was very fine and is full of little stones upon the shore like our Flints only these are harder and give more fire upon any collision Whilest they were amongst them there came about 10 or 12 of their Canoes aboard us with a kind of Sea-Pike an excellent good fish and several other sorts of which we bought some The people are generally well proportioned and bearing every one of them the name of some Saint or other I had a great curiosity to know how that custom came upon them I took one of them aside and having cajoled him with a glass of Wine and strong-water which they love better then their Wives I asked him the reason and he told me that when any Vessels passed that way and did the Natives any kindness it was usual to begg their Names at their departure which they gave afterwards to their children in memory of the courtesie they had received from them Which convinced me being imbellished with so noble a virtue as gratitude they could not be so bad as they had been represented to me and the rather because the King of them having upon the death of an English Merchant seized upon all his Ivory and goods did upon the arrival of the first English Ship voluntarily and without any solicitation deliver all to the Captain An invincible argument of their piety and saith I gave him that gave me this accompt two little knives for his pains and he was so surpris'd at the present he desired my name and I having told him he oblig'd himself if his Wife which was big at that time was brought to bed of a boy he should carry my name and if ever I return'd that way he would bring him to see me All along this Coast their manner of salutation is the same they take our sore finger and thumb into their hands and putting them into a certain posture they pull them hard and make them snap crying out Aquio when they have done which is as much as your Servant with us This Countrey is very fertil well furnish'd with Fowl and Rice and Millet of which they make all the bread which they carry with them in their Canoes when they go out a fishing which as I observed they are very neat and axact in keeping clean He that would stay upon the place might make very good advantage either by Rice or Pepper or Ivory which is excellently good their kindness has been always more conspicious to the French then either to the Hollander or Portugal neither of which they would ever suffer to cohabit with them On the 32th by break of day we discovered a little Fleet of Canoes of about 40 which were going a fishing and within a quarter of an hour they dispersed themselves every way Of the whole Armada there was but one came to us with some few Elephants teeth which he held so dear he had his labour for his paines and carryed them off as he brought them whereupon we also weighed anchor for Rio-Sanguin which is the first place upon the Coast of Malaguette and about twelve leagues from Rio-Sextos for four hours together we steer'd Southward to avoid the Rocks which ly in great numbers betwixt Rio-Sanguin and Rio-Sextos after which we steer'd East and by North and came safe to Rio-Sanguin That the French had the preoccupancy of these Coasts in respect of all other Nations of Europe I think is clear from the Names of several Bayes and a hundred other monuments of their glory But at present we have nothing left there nor indeed any body but the English who by means of seven or eight houses doe carry away as it were the whole pofits of the place The Portugais succeeded the French but being over-power'd by the English and the Dutch and beaten off from the Coasts in the year 1604. they retreated farther into the Countrey and marrying with the Natives have begot that