A new voyage to the East-Indies in the years 1690 and 1691 being a full description of the isles of Maldives, Cicos, Andamants, and the Isle of Ascention ... / by Monsieur Duquesne ; to which is added, a new description of the Canary Islands, Cape Verd, Senegal, and Gambia, &c. ; illustrated with sculptures, together with a new map of the Indies, and another of the Canaries ; done into English from the Paris edition.
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A new voyage to the East-Indies in the years 1690 and 1691 being a full description of the isles of Maldives, Cicos, Andamants, and the Isle of Ascention ... / by Monsieur Duquesne ; to which is added, a new description of the Canary Islands, Cape Verd, Senegal, and Gambia, &c. ; illustrated with sculptures, together with a new map of the Indies, and another of the Canaries ; done into English from the Paris edition.
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Du Quesne, Abraham, ca. 1653-1724.
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London :: Printed for Daniel Dring ...,
1696.
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"A new voyage to the East-Indies in the years 1690 and 1691 being a full description of the isles of Maldives, Cicos, Andamants, and the Isle of Ascention ... / by Monsieur Duquesne ; to which is added, a new description of the Canary Islands, Cape Verd, Senegal, and Gambia, &c. ; illustrated with sculptures, together with a new map of the Indies, and another of the Canaries ; done into English from the Paris edition." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A36936.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.
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A
DESCRIPTION
OF THE
River ZAMENEE.
THE River Zamenee is inhabited
by several sorts of Negroes, those
at its Mouth towards the North call
themselves Floupes, a People extreamly
Savage, with whom no Nation has any
Commerce. They are all Pagans; ha∣ving
every one his God according to
his particular Inclinations; one wor∣ships
a Bullocks Horn, another a Beast,
or a Tree, to whom they offer Sa∣crifice
according to their own man∣ner.
Their Dress is like those of Cape Verd, and the Inhabitants of the Ri∣ver
Gambia, which consists in a Piece
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of Cotton Cloth, striped after the man∣ner
of the Country, which barely co∣vers
their nakedness.
They have no succession of Kings, the
most Absolute and most Powerful a∣mongst
them Commands.
They understand Cultivation very
well, and make very good Improve∣ments
of their Lands, which they sow
with Mill and Rice. Their Riches con∣sists
in Bullocks, Cows, Goats; of
which some of them have great quan∣tities.
They possess the Coast all along
as far as the River Gambia, and about
six Leagues into the Land. Their
Towns are well Peopled, and about a
quarter of a League distant one from
another.
The Negroes or Filouppes that inha∣bit the South Entrance of this River,
are exceeding barbarous and cruel; for
when they can catch any white Men
they give 'em no quarter; and some
say they eat them.
These are in possession of the Coun∣try
all along the Coast to a Town cal∣led
Boulol, which stands at the Mouth
of the River of St. Domingo. This Coast
is much better Peopled than that of
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Gambia: The Villages are about two
Leagues distant one from another, and
about half a League from the Sea.
About seven or eight Leagues far∣ther,
the ebbing and flowing of the
Sea makes a little River, which leads
to the Town of Jam, where the Por∣tuguese
make great Quantities of Wax,
which they traffick with by Land to
Gambia and Cacheaux.
The adjacent Countries are inhabited
by Negroes who are call'd Bagnons; and
these have a King that lives twelve
or thirteen Leagues from the Sea.