The English acquisitions in Guinea & East-India containing first, the several forts and castles of the Royal African Company, from Sally in South Barbary, to the Cape of Good Hope in Africa ... secondly, the forts and factories of the Honourable East-India Company in Persia, India, Sumatra, China, &c. ... : with an account of the inhabitants of all these countries ... : also the birds, beasts, serpents and monsters and other strange creatures found there ... : likewise, a description of the Isle of St. Helena, where the English usually refresh in their Indian voyages by R.B.

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The English acquisitions in Guinea & East-India containing first, the several forts and castles of the Royal African Company, from Sally in South Barbary, to the Cape of Good Hope in Africa ... secondly, the forts and factories of the Honourable East-India Company in Persia, India, Sumatra, China, &c. ... : with an account of the inhabitants of all these countries ... : also the birds, beasts, serpents and monsters and other strange creatures found there ... : likewise, a description of the Isle of St. Helena, where the English usually refresh in their Indian voyages by R.B.

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R. B., 1632?-1725?

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London :: Printed for Nath. Crouch ...,

1700.

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Contents

• illustration
• title page
• TO THE READER.
• The Acquisitions of the Royal African Com∣pany in Guinea, and the several Forts and Castles belonging to them, from Sally in South Barbary to the Cape of Good Hope in Africa. With an account of the Natives of those Countrys; their Religion, Government, Trade, Wars, Marriages, Funerals, and Strange Customs. Also the Birds, Beasts, Monsters, Serpents &c. found there. Intermixt with divers Acci∣dents, and Notable Remarks.
  • I. Iames Fort.
  • II. Sierra Leona.
  • III. Sherbrow.
  • IV. Dickeys Cove.
  • V. Commenda.
  • VI. Cape Coast Castle.
  • VII. Fort Royal.
  • VIII. Annamabo.
  • IX. Winnebah.
  • X. Acra.
  • The Captivity and Deliverance of John Watts an Englishman, from Slavery un∣der the King of the Buckamores, and the King of Calanach, near Old Mallabar in Guinea.
  • A View of St. Helena an Island in the Ethio∣pian Ocean, in Africa Now in possession of the Honourable East-India-Company, where their Ships usually refresh in their Indian Voyages.
  • A Iourney of Several English Merchants from Oratava in Teneriff, one of the Canary Islands on the Coast of Africa, to the Top of the Pike in that Island, with the Ob∣servations they made there.
  • A View of the Bay of Souldania near the Cape of Good Hope, on the Coast of Africa; where the Ships of the Honourable East-India-Company used formerly to re∣fresh in their Indian Voyages. With an Account of the Natives, Birds, and Beasts of that Countrey, now called Cafaria, and Monomopata; or the Countrey of the Hot∣tentots, With some Accidents happening there.
• The Factories of the Honourable East-India-Company in Persia. With an Account of the Religion, Government, and other no∣table Remarks, in that Kingdom.
  • Of Ispahan, or Spawhawn, and Gambroon in the Kingdom of Persia.
  • The Religion of the Persians. With the Life and Doctrines of Mahomet the Grand Im∣postor.
  • The Government of the Kingdom of Persia.
• The Forts and Factories of the Honourable East-India Company upon the Coasts of Malabar, Cormandel, in the Bay of Ben∣gal and in the Empire of the Great Mo∣gul, in India. With an account of the Religion, Government, Trade, Marria∣ges, Funerals, strange Customs of the Na∣tives. Intermixt with divers Accidents and notable Remarks.
  • Fort St. George.
  • Callicut.
  • Surat.
  • The History of Savagi the Indian Rebel.
  • Maslipatan.
  • The Empire and Government of the Great Mogol.
  • The Travels of Mr Thomas Coryat.
• The Factories of the Honourable East-India Company in the Island of Sumatra.
  • York Fort.
• The English Factories in China.
• part
• Books Printed for Nath. Crouch at the Bell in the Poultry near Cheapside.
  • History.
  • Miscellanis.
  • Divinity.