ABSTRACT
The chapter focuses on the customs, food, languages and religions of the peoples in the islands and settlements visited. It has remarks on the gold, ivory and slave trades. When we parted with the Weymouth off Cape de Verd, to avoid the Shoals of Grandee, and in hawling in for the Land again, waited till we came into the Latitude of Sierraleon, some others laying on the N. Side that River. The Soundings in with the Cape are gradual, when we get in fight of Cape Sierraleon. We run up on the Starboard side of the River, anchoring in the third Bay from the Cape; where is very commodious watering and wooding; and regular Tides, as in any part of the Channel of England. Sierraleon River is very broad here, narrow to half the Breadth of the Thames at London, spread on both sides thick with Mangroves; or slender woody Shrubs, watry Banks of Rivers, in warm Climates.
