Sketches Taken During Ten Voyages to Africa Between the Years 1786 and 1800: Including Observations on the Country Between Cape Palmas and the River Congo, and Cursory Remarks on the Physical and Moral Character of the Inhabitants, with an Appendix Containing an Account of the European Trade with the West Coast of AfricaHurst, Robinson and Company, 1822 - 119 Seiten |
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Accra ackies Africa Angola Appolonia Ardrah Asshantees assorted Badagry BAFTS Benin Bight of Benin blue boats Bonny Cabenda calavancies Camaroons canoe-men canoes Cape Coast Cape Lahoo Cape Palmas cargo ceremony CHELLOES climate colour common consequence Cradoo Lake creek Dahomian Dahomy distance Ditto Drewin EARTHENWARE eastward embouchure European Eyeo Fantee fathoms feet females fetiche former Formosa Gatto Gold Coast Grewhe GUNPOWDER harmattan Heebos Housa India inhabitants interior island ivory Jaboo king lagoon Lagos Lagos river land latter place leagues longitude maize Majumba Malemba manufactured miles morass national mark natives navigable negroes Niger obtained Old Calabar palm oil PHOTAES places of trade Popo Portuguese purchase purpose quantity River Congo ROMALS salt sea-shore season ship shore Sierra Leone skin suitable to barter tattow tons burthen town trade in slaves trees vessels trading Warré western wind women Wydah yams
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Seite 43 - 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 consequence.
Seite 39 - ... according to the extent of business they are in the habit of transacting. Evening is the period chosen for the time of departure, when they proceed in a body, accompanied by the noise of drums, horns, and gongs. At the expiration of the sixth day, they generally return, bringing with them 1,500 or 2,000 slaves, who are sold to Europeans the evening after their arrival, and taken on board the ships.
Seite 35 - These neptunes are used, during the dry season, by the Creek and surrounding country people, for the purpose of evaporating sea-water to obtain its salt, which is here the medium of exchange, and a great trade is carried on in this article with the interior country.
Seite 6 - Fantees are black as jet, muscular, and well-formed, and those that are engaged in fishing and employed as canoemen, can endure much bodily fatigue, although they often make excuses to abridge their labour, however well they may be paid for it; for they are anxious to have the labour of the day concluded by noon, in order that they may wash and dress, and gossip with their neighbours the remainder of the day. Their national mark is three small perpendicular incisions on each temple, and on the nape...
Seite 47 - ... from 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...
Seite 114 - ... 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.
Seite 51 - 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 sea breeze also blows directly into it, pure as the element over which it wings its course; and, at some seasons of the year, this breeze continues blowing days and nights without intermission.
Seite 37 - A large wooden cross, which had withstood the tooth of time, was remaining in a very perfect state, in one of the angles formed by two roads intersecting each other.
Seite 38 - This place is the wholesale market for slaves, as not fewer than 20,000 are annually sold here ; 16,000 of whom are natives of one nation, called Heebo...
Seite 20 - Soap is manufactured of wood-ashes and palm-oil ; sandals, of bull and cow hides ; baskets, of various forms, are ingeniously wrought and manufactured ; also, earthenware, for culinary and other purposes ; besides stools, canoes, and mats. A singular custom prevails here, that of anointing, occasionally, the interior walls of houses with fresh cow-dung ; a useful practice, for it dries quickly, has by no means an unpleasant smell, and fills up crevices, which would otherwise be tenanted by noxious...