. A Collection of voyages and travels [microform] : some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English : in six volumes with a general preface giving an account of the progress of navigation from its first beginning. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. A Defcription of South-Guinea. Book II. 144 Barbot. for ihc fame purpofc i at the return of ^^V^' that, another v ami lb on fuccefTivcly, till the winter feafon comes on. The firll ca- noe fcts out from Corby la Hon, and is prc- fcntly follow'd by the native faftors of that port in fcveral canoes, lade
. A Collection of voyages and travels [microform] : some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English : in six volumes with a general preface giving an account of the progress of navigation from its first beginning. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. A Defcription of South-Guinea. Book II. 144 Barbot. for ihc fame purpofc i at the return of ^^V^' that, another v ami lb on fuccefTivcly, till the winter feafon comes on. The firll ca- noe fcts out from Corby la Hon, and is prc- fcntly follow'd by the native faftors of that port in fcveral canoes, laden with cloths, of ihofe made of five (lips. After their return, thofe of fix breadths are fent away with the fecond canoe; and after the third, thofc from other places follow: which altcrnati/e is fcf regularly obfervM, that they never preju- dice one another, but every trader has time and opportunity to fell his goods. This trade continues til) the end oi April, when the enchanting canoe returns to the coaft, as it were to let loofe the fea, and then every one makes the beft of his way home again. The country is almoft every where plea- fant and delightful to the eye â , the hills and dales are curious to behold; the red co- lour of the rocks, with the lovely green fhades them, tfpecially about the river of St. AndrcM and Cape la Hon, render the pro- A)edl ftill more agreeable. There is great ftore of cattle, as goats, fwine, and fheep, all very reafonable, a hog being fold for the value of half a crown in knives. There is alfo abundance of palm-oil, by tin- fruit produced by ihcTombe tree, from which they alfo draw the wine called Bourdon or Tombe, ufually drank by the Blacks mix'd with water to moderate the ftrcngth of the wine, and correft the crudity of the water. Tho' the Blacks of ^uaqua are in outwanl c,-.,/,,,, appearance the moft barbarous of all Guinea, lJ:«tk'' yet are they, in the main, the moft polite and rational, and fo reputed among their neigh
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