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A voyage to Guinea, Brasil and the West Indies

A VOYAGE TO Guinea, Brasil, and the West-Indies;

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In His Majesty’s Ships, the Swallow and Weymouth.

Describing the several Islands and Settlements, viz—Madeira, the Canaries, Cape de Verd, Sierraleon, Sesthos, Cape Apollonia, Cabo Corso, and others on the Guinea Coast; Barbadoes, Jamaica, &c. in the West-Indies.

The Colour, Diet, Languages, Habits, Manners, Customs, and Religions of the respective Natives, and Inhabitants.

With Remarks on the Gold, Ivory, and Slave-Trade; and on the Winds, Tides and Currents of the several Coasts.

By JOHN ATKINS, Surgeon in the Royal Navy.

Illi Robur & Æs triplex Circa Pectus erat, qui fragilem truci Commisit Pelago Ratem Primus—— Horat.

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LONDON;

Printed for Cæsar Ward and Richard Chandler, at the Ship, between the Temple-Gates in Fleet-Street; And Sold at their Shop in Scarborough. M.DCC.XXXV.

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