ABSTRACT
Sesthos town is large, and built after a different Model from those left; they run them up four Foot from the Earth; at that height, is the first and chief Room, to sit, talk, or sleep in, lined with matted Rinds of Trees, supported with Stockades, and in the middle of it, a Fire-place for Charcoal, that serves a double Purpose; driving off Infects and Vermine, and drying their Rice and Indian Corn. Of the upper Lost they make a Store-house, that runs up pyramidal; making the Town at distance, appear like a number of Spires, each standing singly. Sesthio, a Place where most of our windward Slave-ships stop to buy Rice, exchanged at about 2s. per Quintal. The River is about half the breadth of the Thames; a narrow Entrance only for Boats on the starboard Side, between two Rocks, on great Swells and Winds, makes the shooting dangerous; the rest of the breadth being choaked with Sands.
