A voyage to Guinea, Brasil and the West Indies

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
This book was printed in 1735 and this etext is a careful reproduction of that original text. No spelling and very few punctuation corrections have been made in order to preserve the historical value of the original work.
All dates are Julian calendar dates; a new year begins on March 25th. When a year is given for a date between January 1st and March 24th it is shown in this etext as 172 0 / 1 or 172 1 / 2 or 172 2 / 3 .
The long-s ſ has been replaced by s throughout the etext.
The page numbering of the main text starts at 1, 2 then jumps to 19, 20, 21 etc. No pages are missing, it is a printing error by the original publisher.
Lately Publish’d ,
In a neat Pocket Volume, Price 3 s.
The Navy Surgeon: Or, A Practical System of Surgery . Illustrated with Observations on such remarkable Cases as have occurred to the Author’s Practice in the Royal Navy . To which is added, A Treatise on the Venereal Disease , the Causes, Symptoms, and Method of Cure by Mercury : An Enquiry into the Origin of that Distemper; in which the Dispute between Dr. Dover , and Dr. Turner , concerning Crude Mercury , is fully consider’d; with Useful Remarks thereon. Also an Appendix , containing Physical Observations on the Heat, Moisture, and Density of the Air on the Coast of Guinea , the Colour of the Natives; the Sicknesses which they and the Europeans trading thither are subject to; with a Method of Cure. By John Atkins, Surgeon .
Printed for Ward and Chandler, at the Ship , between the Temple-Gates in Fleet-Street ; and Sold at their Shop in SCARBOROUGH.
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.