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A41375	The Golden coast, or, A description of Guinney 1. In it's air and situation, 2. In the commodities imported thither, and exported thence, 3. In their way of traffick, their laws and customes, together with a relation of such persons, as got wonderful estates by their trade thither.		1665 (1665)	Wing G1014; ESTC R6926	52,146	96

wee have their Cotton yarns Hides and what they sell at the dearest rate Slaves and Children which the Parents will trappan to the Sea side and sell away for a Crown It also yeeldeth good Trennuelis like milk when the Tree is cut down which cometh out of the body thereof having hanged three or four daies they are through ripe the Tree bears but one bunch at a time whereon there is at least a hundred Figs or more and when they cut off the bunch of Figs the Tree also is cut down to the ground the root staying still in the earth which presently springeth up again and within a month hath its full growth and so all the year long no time excepted The tree beareth fruit very delicate to eat you must pull off the husk wherein the fruit lyeth very delightfull to behold the colour whereof is whitish and somewhat yellow when you bite it it is soft as if it were Meal and Butter mixed together it is mellow in biting it cooleth the Maw much thereof eaten maketh a man very loose and raw in the throat it maketh women leacherous if they eat any store Some are of opinion because it is so delicate a fruit that it was the same Tree that stood in Paradise whereof God forbad Adam and Eve to eat It hath a very good smell like Roses but the taste is better The Portugals will not cut it through with a knife but break it by reason of a special observation which they have in the cutting thereof which is that then it sheweth like a cross in the middle of the fruit and therefore they think it not good to cut it The Bachonens by us so called are very like the Bannanaes for the condition and form is all one only that the fruit is smaller shorter white of colour within and sweeter of taste and is esteemed wholesomer to bee eaten than the Bannanaes but there is no such great quantity of them and for that they were first brought out of the Kingdome of Congo into other Countries they have gotten the name thereof The Annanas is also a delicate and pleasant fruit for smell and of the best taste that any fruit can bee it hath also diverse several names there are two sorts the Male and the Female the Cannarians call it Annanasa the Brasilians Nana those of Hispaniald Jajawa and the Spaniards in Brasilia Pinas because one of them found that and the Pinas first in Brasilia It is as great as a Mellon fair of colour somewhat yellow Green and Carnation when it begins to bee ripe the greenness turneth into an Orange colour it is of pleasant taste and hath a fine smell like an Apricock so that it is to bee smelt a far off when you see the fruit a far off being green it shews like Artichokes and is eaten with wine it is light of disgesture but eating much thereof it inflameth a mans body In Brasilia there are three sorts thereof the first Jajama the second Boniama the third Jajagma but in Guinney there is but one sort The time when they are in their flower is in Lent for then they are best it grows half a fathom above the ground the leaves thereof are not above Semper Vinum When they are eaten they are cut in round slices and sopt in Spanish Wine you cannot eat enough thereof it is very hot of nature and grows in moist ground the sops that you take out of the Wine taste like sweet Musk and if you do not presently wipe the knife wherewith you cut the fruit but let it lye half an hour it will bee eaten in as if there had been strong water laid upon it being eaten in abundance and without knowledge it causeth great sickness There are great store of Iniamus growing in Guinney in great fields which are sowed and planted like Turneps the Root is Iniamus and groweth in the Earth like Earth-nuts those Iniams are as great as a Yellow-root but thicker and fuller of knots they are of a Mouse-colour and within as white as a Turnep but not so sweet being put in a Kettle and sodden with flesh and then peeled and eaten with Oyl and Pepper they are a very delicate meat in many places it is used for bread and is the greatest meat that the Negroes eat The Battatas are somewhat redder of colour and in form almost like Iniamus and taste like Earth-nuts those two kinde of fruits are abundant in Guinney they are commonly rosted or else eaten with a Hodge-potch instead of Parsneps or Turneps The Palm-wine tree is almost like the Cocos-Tree or a Lantor with diverse others and are of three or four sorts most of them have all one kinde of leaf but in manner of Wood they are all unlike for this Tree is shorter of Wood then all the rest The Wine is drawn out of those Trees by boring them from whence there issueth a Sap like Milk which is very cool and fresh to drink at the first when it is drawn it is pleasant and sweet having stood a while it is as sower as Vinegar so that you may use it in a Sallet but being drunk sweet and fresh it causeth a man to void Urine well whereby in those Countries there are very few found that have the disease of the Stone by drinking much thereof a mans head will soon bee light but that lightness a man hath in his head thereby causeth it not to ake When it cometh first out of the Tree it is sweeter of taste than when it hath stood a while but yet it is esteemed better when it hath stood a while and is somewhat settled than presently to bee drunk for it standeth seething and bubling as if it hung over the fire and sod so that if it were put into a Glass and stopt up without letting any air come into it the force thereof would break the Glass in peeces but being a meal-tide old it is nothing worth because it is so sowre and then it is of another colour very waterish therefore it is much mixed with water and seldome comes pure into the Market as it is taken out of the Tree which is done partly to increase their Wine as also that then it is the sweeter to drink and hath the taste of Syder and the colour of Must when the Tree is old and will yeild no more wine at the top it is cut down at the foot and a fire made at the root thereof where they set a pot whereinto the Wine by reason of the heat runneth the Tree being changed and yeilding no more profit there groweth another Tree out of the root thereof but it is half a year old before it giveth any Wine in the morning betimes an hour before day the Wine is drawn out and brought to the Market at noon-time The Palmitas-Tree is not much to bee seen in Guinney but for that a Negro in that Country shewed mee the fruit thereof I thought good to say something

eight Ears upon it insomuch that I have told five hundred and fifty Grains upon one Reed which came of one Grain alone Here is also a Tree called Palm whose Bark they bore and draw out of it most curious sweet Wine which mingled with a little water is the best drink in the world and excellent Oyl wherewith they make their bodies shine besides this necessary use of it In the tempestuous and rainy time of April May and June the rain being sometimes so hot as if it were warm water the poor silly people are simply afraid of it and do what they can that not a drop of it fall on their bodies and if any happen to do so they shiver and shake as if they had a Feavour until they have found the way to Annoint their bodies with this Oyl so that a Negroe looks like a Spanish-leather pair of Boots well liquoured Here groweth Bunnana or the Indian Fig not on the Branches as other Fruit but on the body of the Tree covered with leaves a fathome long and three spans broad which leaves are used in their houses for paper the Tree indeed being nothing else but a few leaves patched together It is as high as a man on the top the leaves begin to spring out and rise up an end and as the young leaves come forth the old ones wither away and begin to dry until the Tree comes to his growth and the fruit to perfection The leaves in the middle have a very thick vein which divideth it in two and in the middle of the leaves out of the heart of the Tree there groweth a flower as big as an Ostridge-Egge of a russet colour which in time waxeth long like the stalk of a Colewort whereon the Figs grow close one by another when they are still in their husks they are not much unlike great Beans and so grow more and more until they be a span long and four thumbs broad like a Cucumber They are cut off before they are ripe and are in that sort hanged up in bunches which oftentimes are as much as a man can carry CHAP. II. The Wares to be carried to Guinney FIrst we bring them great store of slight Linnen-Cloath whereof there is very much spent in those Countries for they apparel themselves therewith and it is the chiefest thing they use for that purpose besides this we carry them great store of Basons Barbers Basons Basons to drink in Platters of Copper flat Basons great broad Copper-pans at the least two fathomes about and small Posnets without edges The small Basons they use to put Oyl in wherewith they annoint themselves and the greater sort of them they set in the Graves of the Dead and use them to carry diverse things in The Barbers Basons they use to wash themselves in and when they cut their hair Platters they use to lay over things to cover them withall to keep dust and filth from falling into their things The great broad Pans are by them used to kill Goats or Hogs in and to make them clean therein instead of a Tub The Posnets they use to dress their Meat in which serveth them to very good purpose they will not have them with stales as we use them here with us and many such like Basons of Copper which our Ships bring thither in great quantities and therewith fill the Countries so full that by means thereof they are sold as good cheap to the Negroes as they are bought in Amsterdam And although there are so many of these Basons brought thither and no Ware that weareth so much as Linnen yet you see but few old Copper things there and therefore you must think that there is a great store of People inhabiting further within the Land which use so great quantity of such things We carry thither great store of Kettles which they use to fetch water in out of their Pits and Valleys and some red Copper-pots Tinned within wherein they use to put Water instead of a barrel of Beer to drink as also Earthen pots out of which they use to drink Iron is used by them to make their Weapons as Assagaies Cutting-Knives Poniards c. The Assagaies and Poniards they use for the Warrs the Cutting-Knives to Till and cut up the Ground instead of Spades and some to cut Wood withall and to use about their buildings for they have no other Tools They also buy great store of Red Blew Yellow and Green Rupinish Cloath which they use for Girdles about their middles to hang their Knives Purses Poniards and such like things at They use white Spanish Serges to wear upon their bodies instead of Cloaks Rings of Copper and Brass which they wear about their arms and feet for a great pride they also use Tin things as rings about their arms but not many they use many Knives which we make with us in Holland and call them Dock Messen They also use great store of Venice Beads of all kindes of colours but they desire some colours more than others which they break in four or five peeces and then grinde them upon a stone as our Children grinde Cherry-stones and then put them upon strings made of the Bark of Trees ten or twelve together and therewith traffick much those ground Corals they wear about their Necks hands and Feet They also use round Beads and specially great round Counters which they hang and plait among their hair and let them hang over their ears Pins they use to make Fish-hooks Horse-tails they use when they dance and also when they sit still to keep the Flies from their bodies Looking-glasses and small Copper Milk-pans with many such like things they likewise make use of But the chiefest Wares that are uttered there and most among them is Linnen-Cloath Brass and Copper things Basons Kettles Knives and Corals At first wee used many times to deceive them not only in the measuring of Linnen but in delivering them broken and patch'd Basons and peeced Kettles for their mony rotten Cloath through which they might have sifted Beans Knives that were so Rusty that they could hardly without breaking pull them out of their Sheaths with such like Wares but now by use and experience they have attained to such skill in our Wares that they are almost able to surpass us therein For first when they buy any Linnen-Cloath they look if it be not too slight and thin and whether it bee white and broad for they are very curious to buy white and broad Linnen and respect not the strength so much as the breadth of it for they use to hang the Linnen about their Bodies especially the Women which desire to have it hang down from underneath their Breasts to their Knees Secondly They take Woollen-Cloath and hold it up against the light to see if it bee thin They draw the Knives out of the Sheaths to see if they be not Rusty they look upon the Basons one by one to see if they have no holes in

For wind as say the Philosophers is none other then Air vehemently moved as we see in a pair of Bellows and such other Some men of good credit that were in this Voyage to Guinney affirm earnestly that in the night season they felt a sensible heat to come from the beams of the Moon the which thing though it be strange and insensible to us that inhabit cold regions yet doth it stand with good reason that it so may be for as much as the nature of Stars and Planets as writeth Pliny consisteth of Fire and containeth in it a spirit of life which cannot be without Heat And that the Moon giveth Heat upon the Earth the Prophet David seemeth to confirm in his 121 Psa where speaking of such men as are defended from evils by Gods protection hee saith thus Per diem Sol non exurat te nec Luna per noctem that is to say In the day the Sun shall not burn thee nor the Moon by night They say furthermore that in certain places of the Sea they saw certain streams of water which they call spouts falling out of the Air into the Sea and that some of these are as big as the great Pillars of Churches insomuch that sometimes they fall into Ships and put them in great danger of drowning Some feign that these should bee the Cataracts of Heaven which were all opened at Noah's Flood But I think them rather to bee such fluxions and eruptions as Aristotle in his book De Mundo saith do chance in the Sea for speaking of such strange things as are often seen in the Sea hee writeth thus Oftentimes also even in the Sea are seen evaporations of Fire and such eruptions and breaking forth of Springs that the mouths of Rivers are opened Whirle-pools and fluxions are caused of such other vehement motions not only in the midst of the Sea but also in Creeks and Streights At certain times also a great quantity of water is lifted up and carried about with the Moon c. By which words of Aristotle it doth appear that such waters bee lifted up in one place at one time and do suddenly fall down in another place at another time And hereunto perhaps pertaineth it that Richard Chanceller related that hee heard Sebastion Cabot report that about the Coasts of Brasile or Rio de Platu his Ship or Pinnace was suddenly lifted from the Sea and cast upon Land The which thing and such other like wonderful and strange works of nature while we consider and call to remembrance the narrowness of mans understanding and knowledge in comparison of her mighty power wee can but cease to marvel and confess with Pliny that nothing is to her impossible the least part of whose power is not yet known to men Many things more the Travellers observed in this Voyage worthy to be noted whereof I thought good to put some in memory that the Reader may as well take pleasure in the variety of things as knowledge of the History Among other things therefore touching the manners and nature of the People this may seem strange that their Princes and Noble Men use to pounce and rase their skins with pretty knots in diverse forms as it were branched Damask thinking that to bee a decent ornament and albeit they go in manner almost naked yet are many of them and especially their women in manner laden with Collars Bracelets Hoops and Chains either of Gold Copper or Ivory their Ivory Bracelets are made of one whole peece of the biggest part of the tooth turned somewhat carved with a hole in the midst wherein they put their hands to wear it on their arms Some have on every one eight as many on their legs wherewith some of them are so galled that although they are in manner made lame thereby yet will they by no means leave them off Some also wear on their legs great Shackles of fine Copper which they think to bee no less comely they wear also Collars Bracelets Garlands and Girdles of certain blew Stones like Beads likewise some of their women wear on their bare arms certain fore-sleeves made of the Plate of beaten Gold On their fingers also they wear Rings made of Gold wires with a knot or wreath like unto that which children make in a Ring of a Rush Among other things that our men bought of them for exchange of their Wares were certain Dogs-Chains and Collars They are very wary people in their bargaining and will not lose one spark of Gold of any value they use weights and measures and are very circumspect in occupying the same they that shall have to do with them must use them gently for they will not traffick or bring in any Wares if they be ill used At the first Voyage that our English men had into these parts it so chanced that at their departure from the first place where they did Traffick one of them either stole away a Musk-Cat or took her away by force not mistrusting that that should have hindred their bargaining in another place whither they intended to go but for all the haste that they could make with full sails the fame of their misusage so prevented them that the people of that place also offended thereby would bring in no Wares insomuch that they were inforced either to restore the Cat or pay for her at their price before they could Traffick there Their Houses are made of four posts or trees and covered with boughs Their common feeding is of Roots and such Fishes as they take whereof they have great plenty There are also such flying Fishes as are seen in the Sea of the West Indies our English men salted of their Fish hoping to provide store thereof but they would not take salt and must therefore bee eaten forthwith as some say Howbeit others affirm that if they be salted immediately after they are taken they will last uncorrupted ten or twelve daies But this is more strange that part of such Flesh as they carried with them out of England which putrified there became sweet again at their return to the clime of temperate Regions They use also a strange making of Bread in this manner They grinde between two stones as much Corn as they think may suffice their family and when they have thus brought it to flower they put thereto a certain quantity of water and make thereof very thin dough which they stick upon some posts of their Houses where it is baked by the heat of the Sun so that when the Master of the House or any of his Family will eat thereof they take it down and eat it They have very fair Wheat the ear whereof is two handfulls in length and as big as a great Bulrush and almost four inches about where it is biggest the stem or straw seemeth to bee almost as big as the little finger of a mans hand or little less The grains of their Wheat are as big as our Peason round also