So eke in Play; if two miss Fire,
The Stomach palls with wax’ning Ire.
[21] The Word Fetish is used in a double Signification among the Negroes: It is applied to Dress and Ornament, and to something reverenced as a Deity (a Lake, a Stone, a Tree, &c.) both so far agree, as to be regarded as a Charm. That by a Peculiarity, and this by some inherent Essence, can attract Good, or divert Evil. Here they sometimes hide the Fetish in secret parts of the Woods; on urgent Occasions make a sort of Appeal to them, separating some the Friday, some the Saturday, and keep within doors the whole day, in a Moaning, or what you may call a Devotion to it.
[22] Salaries 80l. per Ann.
[23] Boiled by the Negroes to the bigness of half-penny Rolls, and an Accy purchases nine a day of them for a Month. The English bake it.
A lean Goat you may get by chance for five Accys; a Muscovy Duck, a Parrot, or couple of Chickens, for one.
[24] Miscell. Curiosa. Vol. iii. has a Journal of the Weather at Cape Corso for 12 Months, from Mr. Hillier, who says, that was a Year of the most Rain that could be remembred.
[25] Tittwees, like a large Wolf or Mastive, very fierce, and rob their Towns in the Night, of what Kid or Poultry they find.
Tigers, not so adventurous, but are seen by them sometimes: There are two now in the Castle.
Serpents. I have heard the Gentlemen of the Factory say, they have been seen here 30 foot long, able to swallow a Child whole; (Bosman says, a Man, or a full-grown Deer.)