. 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. I'. : |'5||: >>'â ' , ,^ â â i! !(;:i Pi '^ 'fr n r[*.^ 521 ^ Defcription of the Book IV. ^. Rarbot. Mofl of the inhabitants arc- the remains ^"'V'^' of tlu- little Ai-ra people, who lived under tlic Dutib fort, C'-,'vn\r:ir, from whence they ii^ive been lately driven by the .1- qttamhoei nAU
. 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. I'. : |'5||: >>'â ' , ,^ â â i! !(;:i Pi '^ 'fr n r[*.^ 521 ^ Defcription of the Book IV. ^. Rarbot. Mofl of the inhabitants arc- the remains ^"'V'^' of tlu- little Ai-ra people, who lived under tlic Dutib fort, C'-,'vn\r:ir, from whence they ii^ive been lately driven by the .1- qttamhoei nAUon, ns I have obferved before. Tho' this country is not very populous, the natives are very bold and warlike, and often at variance with the O/'j nation. The inha!)iiants of little/'o/'o live moflly upon plunder, and the flave ; far cx- let-dini; thcCv/'y/,;;H,thcirneighbours,in com- robberies, by , they encreafc in riches and trade ; which lu)wc\er, is no' ii) very confi- , as to afford a large cargo of (laves in a little time, but requires ibme munths. To thi^purpofe, it is their common tice to .dliire the fiipircnrgo, or coninian- i! of a Ihip, when t!iey come firlt alioard, that they have a Hock of a- fhore ; but it is only to ilraw iiiui .lihore, which if they can do, they will detain him fume months, and fleece him well: tiir they are the moll deceitful and thievilh of any R' Sometimes it happens according to the fuccefs of their inland exeurfions, tiny are able to furnilh two luuulred or mci;v, in a very few The Pvrt'i<;i:,i',\ of all KiirofciVi nation-;, have the moll commerce with little P'jp'j ; they are heavily a- Inifed and cheated by the , be- caule the Porfif^ar'e commonly viry lorry goods to lonipofe their largo, wliich will not take lb ,\t other ports of the SLtvc , as there : and
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