18.
W. Thence, having wooded and watered, bound with our Prizes and Prisoners to Cape Corso; the General, and chief Merchants there, being in the Commission, (brought out of England with us) for the Tryal of them. Stopped at Princes, from the 21st to the 24th.
Mar. 15.
A. Cape Corso Road; the Pyrates in this Passage were very troublesome to us, from a Project or two they had formed for their Deliverance, and hoped by the Weakness of our Ship’s Company, would have succeeded.
1722
May 1.
W. Cape Corso, the General’s Daughter of the Coast taking a Passage with us to England, a fair, flaxen-hair’d, young Lady, tho’ born of a Mulatto.
I shall here observe at leaving the Center, that in respect to Trade, Guinea needs only this threefold Division, viz. the Gold, the Ivory, and the Slave-Coast; all to Windward of this, might be called the one, and all to Leeward the other; not because either of these Parts of Trade would be entirely wanted in such respective Division, but each abounds more under that Denomination.
May 3.
A Whydah, and left it the 5th, arriving at Cape Lopez the 26th, where both Ships wooded, watered, and purchased Wax for making Candles, now exceeding scarce; and is the most convenient Place for Ships of War, at leaving the Country.