Remarks on the Country Extending from Cape Palmas to the River Congo: Including Observations on the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants ... |
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... cause for being pleased with my journey . This little river , after bending its course from the north to the back of the town , runs to the eastward a few hundred yards , parallel to the sea- shore , and then joins the sea . Its mouth ...
... cause for being pleased with my journey . This little river , after bending its course from the north to the back of the town , runs to the eastward a few hundred yards , parallel to the sea- shore , and then joins the sea . Its mouth ...
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... by trading with Europeans , and was a great favourite both with them and the native traders of remote countries , whose cause he generally espoused in any disputes that occurred between them and his townsmen ; for 18 FANTEES .
... by trading with Europeans , and was a great favourite both with them and the native traders of remote countries , whose cause he generally espoused in any disputes that occurred between them and his townsmen ; for 18 FANTEES .
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... causes a number of casks of brandy to be rolled into the street , puncheon , against puncheon , until the quantity staked , often amounts to six or eight , especially if the gamblers be weal- thy . The administering of gold dust to the ...
... causes a number of casks of brandy to be rolled into the street , puncheon , against puncheon , until the quantity staked , often amounts to six or eight , especially if the gamblers be weal- thy . The administering of gold dust to the ...
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... caused the principal members of his family to shut themselves up in their houses for some time . When they appeared in pub- lic , shame and grief seemed to cover , and afflict them ; and it was remarked , that their townsmen were ...
... caused the principal members of his family to shut themselves up in their houses for some time . When they appeared in pub- lic , shame and grief seemed to cover , and afflict them ; and it was remarked , that their townsmen were ...
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... cause every canoe capable of service to be launched . These , with two or three fisher- men in each , proceed outside of the surf , where they use the cast net with great ad- dress . This is twisted three or four times . round the right ...
... cause every canoe capable of service to be launched . These , with two or three fisher- men in each , proceed outside of the surf , where they use the cast net with great ad- dress . This is twisted three or four times . round the right ...
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Abomey Accra Africa anchor Angola Annamaboo Appolonia Ardrah Asshantee Badagry Bafts beach Benin best Ditto bight of Benin black monarch blue boats Bonny brandy burthen Cabenda calavancies called Camaroons canoes Cape Coast Cape Palmas captain Chelloes climate coast of Angola colour consequence considerable Cost Trade Cradoo lake creek crew Dahomy demand distance Drewin eastward embouchure European extremely Fantee fetiche fish Formosa French Gatto Gold Coast gold-takers Grewhe Gunpowder Guns harmattan Heebos Housa India inhabitants interior island ivory Jaboo John Africa king Lagos Lahoo land latter place maize Malemba manufacture miles nation natives Niger night obtained Old Calabar palm-oil persons piece Pinins places of trade Popo price in value puncheons quantity Remarks RIVER CONGO Romals salt season ship shore tons town trade in slaves value in England voyage Warré wind wood Wydah yams yards
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Page 14 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep!
Page 14 - Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deaf'ning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude; And, in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king ? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Page 144 - Many of the natives write English; an art first acquired by some of the traders' sons, who had visited England, and which they have had the sagacity to retain up to the present period. They have established schools and schoolmasters, for the purpose of instructing in this art the youths belonging to families of...
Page 182 - ... and is so shallow, that it is dangerous for boats drawing more than six or seven feet water to pass it. Formosa, or Benin river, is two miles wide at its entrance from the sea, and has across it a bank of mud, extending to seaward three-quarters of a mile, on which there are only twelve feet of water at spring tides. Vessels, whose draft of water does not exceed nine or ten feet, may generally pass it in safety, by taking the proper time of tide for doing so. A few miles from the sea, this river...
Page 247 - ... sterling per ton. Salt being very cheap in Liverpool, and always in demand at Calabar, the vessels going there generally take, of that article, the amount of their register tonnage, beside a well assorted cargo of the other enumerated articles. A house on shore, for the storage of oil as it is purchased, is therefore requisite, until a quantity of salt is disposed of, so that the oil can be received Names of the various Goods.
Page 152 - ... from St. Thomas thirty-two leagues, bearing south-west southerly. It is a beautiful little island, and inhabited wholly by blacks, who call themselves subjects of the crown of Portugal. There is an open bay on the north-east side where vessels may anchor in twentyfive fathoms water, about a quarter of a mile from the shore. Vessels from the bight of Benin call here sometimes, and obtain a few goats, poultry, and cocoa-nuts. Water is difficult to get, in consequence of the heavy surf, and that...
Page 98 - D impaled while I was at Lagos, but of course I did not witness the ceremony. I passed by where her lifeless body still remained on the stake a few days afterwards. Male dogs are banished to the towns opposite to Lagos, for if any are caught there, they are immediately strangled, split, and trimmed like sheep, and hung up at some great man's door, where rows of the putrid carcasses of their canine...
Page 81 - Wells have, therefore, been made in different parts of the town, which is a very unusual thing in this part of Africa. The natives of Ardrah are industrious, and have acquired some proficiency in the arts, particularly in manufacturing cotton and iron. Cloths of various patterns, though simple, are made by them, both of cotton and grass, but chiefly of the former, into which they frequently weave threads taken from the red India silk taffity, having no red dye which they can render permanent. The...
Page 158 - The superior healthiness of the castle itself may be accounted for, by its southern rampart wall being built on a ledge of rocks which project a little way into the sea, and against which rocks the sea beats with great violence, thereby creating at all times a cool and refreshing current of air within the castle. The...
Page 231 - Rains, when the sea-breeze blows both in the day and night, and at a few leagues from the shore, from very near the south point of the compass, stand off shore for twenty-four hours, when the wind will mostly be found to blow at SSW or S. by W. and often at the South...