Chapter XII (7)

_A_ _De Elmina_, the _Dutch African_ Company’s principal Fort, of
great Trade, there being seldom less than 5 or 6 Sail of _Dutch_
Ships in the Road, often more.

[Sidenote: _7._]

_A._ Cape _Corso_ Road, and left it the 10th in pursuit of the Pyrates; the Governor here, having received two or three Expresses, that they had chased and taken a Ship nigh _Axim_, a Place we had just come from.

[Sidenote: _11._]

_A_ _Apong_ to Leeward, not following too fast lest we over-shot
them, but after certain Intelligence that the Rogues had passed
this Road (off at Sea) we followed.

[Sidenote: _12._]

_A_ _Accra_, a considerable trading Place, (for Salt particularly)
and where the _Dane_, the _Dutch_, and _English_, have a Castle.

[Sidenote: _Jan 15._]

_A_ _Whydah_, and learned that the Pyrates had plundered and
ransomed 11 Sail of Ships, and left the Place two Days before, on
the Report of our following them.

[Sidenote: _19._]

_W._ Thence, and followed the Pursuit, coming before the Isle of
_Princes_ the 29th, and found the _Portuguese_ Strangers to the
News.

[Sidenote: _Feb. 1._]

_A._ The Mouth of the River _Gabone_, a snug Harbor we thought, for
their Reception, the Navigation being difficult; but finding by our
Boats we had missed them, left it the 3d, and continued our Search
to Cape _Lopez_.

Made the Cape, and soon after discovered the three Pyrate Ships at
Anchor in that Bay. One of them upon the _Heel_, righted at sight
of us, slipped her Cable and chased, bending some of her Sails as
she came out, by which we judged the Rashness of our Enemy, who
fell a Prize to us before Night.

[Sidenote: _10._]

Recovered the Cape again, and found the Prize’s Consorts (according
to expectation) very easy in the Bay, and stayed so long that we
doubted whether they would stir for us; but at length, as their
Eyes cleared in our nearer Advance, all mad and frightned, they cut
their Cable, set their Sails, up went the black Flag, and down
their Courage; they continued a running Fight, while only our chace
Guns could play upon them, and struck presently when our Broadside
reached, without the least Damage done to us.

[Sidenote: _Feb. 12._]

_A._ Cape _Lopez Bay_, seizing there the third Pyrate Ship, that
had been deserted for a better Escape or Defence in the other.

[Sidenote: _18._]

_W._ Thence, having wooded and watered, bound with our Prizes and
Prisoners to Cape _Corso_; the General, and chief Merchants there,
being in the Commission, (brought out of _England_ with us) for the
Tryal of them. Stopped at _Princes_, from the 21st to the 24th.

[Sidenote: _Mar. 15._]

_A._ Cape _Corso_ Road; the Pyrates in this Passage were very
troublesome to us, from a Project or two they had formed for their
Deliverance, and hoped by the Weakness of our Ship’s Company, would
have succeeded.

[Sidenote: 1722]

[Sidenote: _May 1._]

_W._ Cape _Corso_, the General’s Daughter of the Coast taking a
Passage with us to _England_, a fair, flaxen-hair’d, young Lady,
tho’ born of a _Mulatto_.

I shall here observe at leaving the _Center_, that in respect to
Trade, _Guinea_ needs only this threefold Division, _viz._ the
_Gold_, the _Ivory_, and the _Slave-Coast_; all to Windward of
this, might be called the one, and all to Leeward the other; not
because either of these Parts of Trade would be entirely wanted
in such respective Division, but each abounds more under that
Denomination.

[Sidenote: _May 3._]

_A_ _Whydah_, and left it the 5th, arriving at Cape _Lopez_ the
26th, where both Ships wooded, watered, and purchased Wax for
making Candles, now exceeding scarce; and is the most convenient
Place for Ships of War, at leaving the Country.

[Sidenote: _June 5._]

_W._ Cape _Lopez_, and after a few Days at Sea, by foggy Weather
lost Company with our Consort the _Swallow_.

[Sidenote: _July 1._]

Made Cape _Augustine_ in _Brasil_, a _Portuguese_ Colony, and
anchored the 4th in _Pernambuca_ Road, the next great Port of Trade
in this Province, to _Bahia_.

[Sidenote: _12._]

_W_ _Brasil_, having found the _Trade-Winds_ blow home, and
increased in their Strength to this Continent, bringing a dangerous
Swell into the Road.

[Sidenote: _August 3._]

_A_ _Barbados_, took in a Supply of Rum and Provisions, and left it
the 9th.

[Sidenote: _23._]

_A_ _Port-Royal_ in _Jamaica_, where we found the _Swallow_ had
arrived, a Week before.

[Sidenote: _Aug. 28._]

A _Hurricane_[39] that drove the _Prize_ ashore, blew away all our
Masts, with other Damages that detained us here 6 Months to repair.

[Sidenote: 1722/3]

[Sidenote: _Jan. 1._]

_W_ _Port-Royal_, and anchored at the _Kays_.

[Sidenote: _Feb. 7._]

_W._ The _Kays_, bound for _England_.

[Sidenote: _19._]

_A_ _Donna Maria Bay_ in _Hispaniola_ (the Windward Passage) to
water, _&c._

[Sidenote: _22._]

_W._ Thence, and arrived at _Spithead, April 8th_, whence we were
ordered to _Woolwich_, and paid off _May_ 11th, 1723.

_FINIS._

_ERRATA._

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32 19 for to r. too.
67 22 for he r. they.
72 27 After r. Aft.
75 24 and will be paid not only _&c._
115 4 Ch. x.
115 5 Ezion
125 16 r. some other Parts.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Put metaphorically for a Ship’s Cockpit; and answers to the dark Cellaring of a House.

[2] At the Changes of the Moon appears a Pillar of Fire in the North, which darting its Rays every way, moves from Place to Place, enlightning not only _Greenland_, but _Iceland_ and _Norway_; and sometimes further, till the returning Sun obscures it. (_Harris_, p. 635. Vol. II.)

[3] _Finis Terræ_, the Westermost Extremity of _Europe_, and formerly thought a _Ne plus ultra_.

[4]
Sold 2 half-worn Suits for a Pipe of Wine.
3 Second-hand Wigs —— —— Ditto.
Loaf-Sugar sells 20_d._ _per_ lib.
Cheshire-Cheese, 8.
Bisket, 2.
Beef _per_ piece 10.
Bought Citron at 15_d._
Lemons _per C._ 20.

[5] Vide _Harris_’s Voyages.

[6] Ten-pounders are like Mullets, but full of small Bones, like Herring-bones.

[7] Old-wives; a scaly, flat Fish, half as thick as long, called so from some Resemblance the Face is fancied to have, with that of a Nun’s.

[8] Cavalloes; a bright, silver-colour’d Fish, with a prickly Ridge on each side, half its length.

[9] Barricudoes; a well-tasted Fish, one Foot and an half long, not wholesome if the Roof of the Mouth be black.

[10] Sucking-Fish; something like the Dog-Fish; underneath he has an oval Flat, of three Inches and an half over, granulated like a Nutmeg-grater; with this he sticks so fast, as difficultly to be torn from the Deck. He often infests the Shirk, sticks fast, and sucks his Nourishment from him.

[11] Cat-Fish, so called from four slender Fibres like Whiskers, sprouting from the under part of his Mouth.

[12] Lollas, are Places cleared of Wood, but barren; the Habitations only of Bug a bugs, the Species of an Ant; build not above a Foot and half high; are whitish, smaller than the common sort, sting, and devour Cloaths.

[13] Lugars; open, clear Places, sowed with Rice, _&c._

[14] _Plantanes_ and _Bananoes_ are a very common Fruit, shaped like Cucumbers, but slender and longer; peeled of their Coat, they are roasted and eat as Bread, fried, or eaten raw. The latter is the juicier, and of a preferable Taste. The Plant bearing them grows as high as a Cherry-tree, with a Leaf three Yards long, and one over; an admirable Detergent in foul, sanious Ulcers, stripped of the inner Skin, and applied as you do Housleek in Corns.

[15] The Pine-Apple is their Prince of Fruits; does not grow so high, but about the Bigness of a Pæony; a beautiful green and yellow; firm and juicy as a Melon; eaten with Wine and Sugar. Some of strong Fancy, imagine all sorts of Fruit to be tasted in it; to me, it always left a stinging abstergent Flavour.

[16] Lime-trees, about as big as our _Apple_, arise by several Roots, and have an oval Leaf; the Fruit smaller, but of sharper Scent and Flavour than Lemons. In the Woods also are many _Sevil_-Orange Trees, the Fruit largest and best tasted of any I ever met.

[17] Papais, the Size of a moderate _Melon_, green as that, and full of Seeds, which thrown out, and the outside pared, is used with Meat, buttered and salted. They grow 20 or 30 Foot high. _Bosman_ says, Male and Female (the _Alcoran_, that all Fruits grow so, p. 213.) the Male blossoming, but bearing no Fruit.

[18] Rice is sown in swampy Grounds; grows the height of our Wheat, and from the top of the Stems shoot very slender Stalks, bearing the Rice grained one above another to a vast Increase; a Peck yielding above 40 Bushels: Yet such is their Idleness, there is often a Deficiency supplied from _Sherbro_, &c.

[19] The _Civet_ is about as large as a Ram Cat, comes from about _Sherbro_; it’s Head like a Foxes. The Male only affords this, at the rate of 3 or 4 Grains a day, gathered with a Quill out of a little Cod or Hole, near the Intestin. rectum.

[20] General _Phips_ at Cape _Corso_, was so nettled at this (he receiving but 19 for 21) that it took his Stomach off Victuals two or three Days.

For as in Fight the Gun or Drum
Will make the Warriour’s Stomach come;
So eke in Play; if two miss Fire,
The Stomach palls with wax’ning Ire.

[21] The Word _Fetish_ is used in a double Signification among the _Negroes_: It is applied to Dress and Ornament, and to something reverenced as a Deity (a Lake, a Stone, a Tree, _&c._) both so far agree, as to be regarded as a Charm. That by a Peculiarity, and this by some inherent Essence, can _attract Good, or divert Evil_. Here they sometimes hide the _Fetish_ in secret parts of the Woods; on urgent Occasions make a sort of Appeal to them, separating some the _Friday_, some the _Saturday_, and keep within doors the whole day, in a Moaning, or what you may call a Devotion to it.

[22] Salaries 80_l._ _per Ann._

[23] Boiled by the Negroes to the bigness of half-penny Rolls, and an Accy purchases nine a day of them for a Month. The _English_ bake it.

A lean Goat you may get by chance for five Accys; a _Muscovy_ Duck, a Parrot, or couple of Chickens, for one.

[24] _Miscell. Curiosa._ Vol. iii. has a Journal of the Weather at Cape _Corso_ for 12 Months, from Mr. _Hillier_, who says, that was a Year of the most Rain that could be remembred.

[25] _Tittwees_, like a large Wolf or Mastive, very fierce, and rob their Towns in the Night, of what Kid or Poultry they find.

_Tigers_, not so adventurous, but are seen by them sometimes: There are two now in the Castle.

_Serpents._ I have heard the Gentlemen of the Factory say, they have been seen here 30 foot long, able to swallow a Child whole; (_Bosman_ says, a Man, or a full-grown Deer.)

_Deer._ Those whose Feet are tipped, and used as Tobacco-Stoppers, are the bigness of a large Cat. The General had one in his Kitchen, the Feet as thick as the middle Finger; whence I judge, those very slender ones we see, are the Abortives of this Animal.

[26] These sort of Tryals have much the same View with the _Water of Jealousy_ among the _Jews_, or _Ordeal_ with our _Saxon_ Ancestors, that is, a Tryal by Fire or Water: The former was proving their Innocency by walking on hot Plough-Shears un-hurt: The latter was used hot or cold. They run their Arm into it scalding hot; or the Priest gave an Imprecation to a Draught of Holy-Water. The Person swore to his Innocence, and being tied Hands and Feet, was thrown into a River or Pond; if he sunk, he was adjudged innocent, if he floated, guilty: And these ways continued till K. _Hen._ III.

Another way with the _Saxons_, was single Combat; if a Woman, she appointed her Champion.

Another, since we are upon Tryal, was by two Ounces of Bread and Cheese taken after the Communion, the Priest thus imprecating; May it stick in your Throat, turn pale, your Limbs convulsed, _&c._ if guilty; but if innocent, may you swallow it easily, _&c._ _Rapin._

[27] _Hæmac_ is a _Brasil_ word, and signifies a Net slung to rest in; made there from the Rind of a Tree.

[28] _Milton._ B. 10, & 11.

[29] A _Negrish_ Name.

[30] See the Appendix to the _Navy-Surgeon_, in which are Physical Observations on the Moisture and Density of the Air.

[31] There is a square Fort on the Larboard Point of the Bay, and Anchorings about a League from it.

[32] Some pretend to have found what they call a material Thunder-bolt; such a one is said to have fell on the _Turkish Mosque_ at _Adrianople_ _A. D._ 1693; and such are shewn in the _Museums_ of Princes. At _Copenhagen_ they have a large piece of metallick Substance, said to be Thunder-bolt.

[33] A Word used by our Sailors, for the _Grout_ is made of it.

[34] _Moquissin_ is a name given to any thing they think has an incomprehensible Virtue. _V. Geographic. Atlas._

[35] The _Portuguese_, who trade hither from _Erasil_, chuse their Cargoes all Boys and Girls, if they can, as more ductile for Conversion; there being Fathers appointed to instruct them in their Creed, and to baptize them, on their arrival; _but then they are Papists_.

[36] Made of a peculiar Earth from _Germany_, and bear (those that are good) the most intense heat.

[37]
There’s but the twinkling of a Star,
Between a Man of Peace and War.
_Hud._

[38] At this Place I would observe, in relation to heaving the Lead, that there is a _Nisus_ in Bodies of Water from below upwards, which makes ’em to sink neither so fast, nor so direct, at any considerable Depth, as near the Surface; all at 200 Fathom or less, being bottomless; _i. e._ unfathomable.

This _Nisus_, or resisting Motion to the Descent of Bodies, is not only perceptible in the Lead, but more sensibly declares itself, _first_, in that black or green Skim, seen sometimes on the Surface (even smelling) after long Calms, the Product of some intestine Motion.

2. That _Divers_, or any floating Bodies, emerge with greater Force than they sunk.

3. Mr. _Boyle_’s 20th Experiment observes, that a glass Bubble let open into the Receiver, on the Exsuction of the Air, _the Water in it manifestly rises a greater Height_; consequently the Expansion and Rarefaction of the Air by the Heat of the Sun, makes room for this _Spring_ in the Water, to exert itself; and therefore the Tides themselves would more difficultly yield to the distant Attractions of the Sun and Moon (I should think) without adding to that Theory this conjoined Force, or natural Propensity of the Sea, to swell before.

In respect to sinking the Lead, also may be added, a greater Coldness, and a greater Saltness of the Sea, in proportion to the Depths; (both which are very probable,) and will create a greater Buoyancy, or Resistance to sinking, as will likewise the drawing out a greater Quantity of Line, (less apt to demerge.) So that although falling Bodies in Air, have their Velocities encreased, the nearer they approach the Earth, yet contrarily in Water, it diminishes with the Descent.

[39] Depend much on the preceding Season, (hot and dry Weather) apt to raise greater Plenty of elastick Vapours on the _Terra firma_, and will explode themselves now here, now there, as the greater Rarefaction of Air (more towards one Island than another) may invite.

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

The numerical dates in the Sidenotes (on pages 255 to 265) have all
been italicized for consistency eg _Mar. 10._.

Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text,
and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.

Pg 35: ‘some hunred Leagues’ replaced by ‘some hundred Leagues’.
Pg 48: the footnote anchor [16] was missing, and has been added to
‘[16]Limes, Oranges’.
Pg 68: ‘weighed Auchor’ replaced by ‘weighed Anchor’.
Pg 97: ‘our Rigth of’ replaced by ‘our Right of’.
Pg 97: ‘The Heigth of’ replaced by ‘The Height of’.
Pg 104: ‘ars sold’ replaced by ‘are sold’.
Pg 132: ‘a Change full as bad’ replaced by ‘a Charge full as bad’.
Pg 193: ‘joined also in in a’ replaced by ‘joined also in a’.
Pg 199: ‘ridiculous, scaramouch’ replaced by ‘ridiculous, and
scaramouch’ (catchword ‘and’ was missing).
Pg 202: ‘we re- our’ replaced by ‘we repeated our’.
Pg 207: ‘off the 1sland’ replaced by ‘off the Island’.
Pg 209: ‘Food or Necessarieis’ replaced by ‘Food or Necessaries’.
Pg 243: ‘Bitts of 7d½’ replaced by ‘Bitts of 7½d’.
Pg 261: ‘1721/2’ inserted before ‘Jan 6.’ as a new Sidenote.
Pg 263: ‘1722’ inserted before ‘May 1.’ as a new Sidenote.
Pg 265: ‘1722/3’ inserted before ‘Jan 1.’ as a new Sidenote.
Catalog: ‘by furnish- them’ replaced by ‘by furnishing them’.