A. Anamaboo (just below it) a noted Place of stopping, for all our Windward trading Ships, to compleat their Slave Cargoes.
28.
A. and W. Montford; the 30th, Barkee, and then Shallo. Through the whole from Sierraleon, it may be observed, that Wood, Candles, or any other Ships Necessaries are hard to get; the former, not from a Want in the Country (it being over-run) but an impassable Beach, where there is no navigable River, and the Diffidence of the Negroes, where it might be best supplied; and the other, because Merchant-Ships do not expect a Trade of that sort, and therefore unprovided.
July 4.
A. Whydah. The whole Coast runs in a strait Line (without Gulphs or Bays) is thick set with Trees, a Tendency of the Sea with the Wind, and every where a very rough and turbulent Beach.
20.
W. Whydah, and arrived the 28th at the Island of Princes, belonging to the Portuguese. In our Approach, saw every Day abundance of Whale, Thresher, and Petrel.——Cleaned our Ships, heaving down by one another, but became exceeding sickly by the Fatigue, each burying three and four Men a Day, for six Weeks together.
Sep. 20.
W Princes, both having purchased their Anchors with difficulty.