ARGUMENT of the FIRST BOOK.
Subject and invocation.—The outfit of a Guinea Voyage.—Allurements and artifices to collect a crew.—Story of Russel.—Parting of Friends.—Outward passage by Madeira and the Canary Islands.—Tyranny of the Master, &c.—Apostrophe to British seamen.
THE
GUINEA VOYAGE.
BOOK THE FIRST.
The direful Voyage to Guinea's sultry shore,
And Afric's wrongs, indignant Muse! deplore.
Or will the Muse the opprobious theme disdain—
And start abhorrent from the unhallowed strain?