. 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. ill- illPl Barbot in civil affairs, and receiving the king's ^â¢^"V^^duties and taxes; for as to criminal cafes of great moment, they fend to court, and wait for new inftrudtions and authority to decide tiiem. Arebo, or Arbon, is farther up the river W;./4f» of }jfâ;â^ and a fine long town,
. 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. ill- illPl Barbot in civil affairs, and receiving the king's ^â¢^"V^^duties and taxes; for as to criminal cafes of great moment, they fend to court, and wait for new inftrudtions and authority to decide tiiem. Arebo, or Arbon, is farther up the river W;./4f» of }jfâ;â^ and a fine long town, pretty well built and inhabited i the houfes much larger than at Boededoe, tho* contriv'd after the fame manner. The town is governed by a viceroy, who commands over all the adja- cent I ountry, alTifted by feven other great officers, as at Boeikdoe, who are called Vea- Kf trade. there for themfelves and attendants to lodge in, and the houfe-keepers muft maintain and fubfilt them all the time they ftay there ; and if any Oiould repine at it, they will certainly be puniflied for it, and the yeadors may turn them out of their own houfes. The Yeadors *us fettled, atthe aforefaid*^""'« trading towns, firft give a welcome vifit to '^''''' the Europeans, newly arrived, being com- monly drcfled to the greateft advantage, according to the country falhion ; and com- pliment them in the name of the king, the queen, and the great Vcador, kneeling down. ihrs, or overfecrs. The Unglijh and Hutch and at the fame time tender their prefents, have both lodges or faftories there, and each of them a t'.idor of the nation, call'd Mtr- cador or Vcador, that is, merchant or ovcr- feer, in Portngucfe, being a fort of brokers. (.otron, Gctloii or Jgiiiton is a very large town, of /W>-^;/.i« which, as wl'I! as of Arebo, I have already 'fimJe. fpoken in another place. It (landson a hill over the river, juft joining to the conti- nent, and is a very large place an
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