The Holland Fleet coming to Anchor February the sixth,
between the Fort of Cape de Kors and Moure, Westward of Kormantyn, the next day got four or five hundred Canoos with Negro's from the Castle De Myne; with which well Mann'd they departed from the Fleet, intending to Land at Anemabo; but were upon their approach near the Shore saluted by the Negro's of Kormantyn, who lay hid behind the Cliffs and Bushes, with Musquets and great Ordnance, playing from the Fort with such fury and violence, that they were beaten back, and forced to retreat without doing any thing.
The Enterprise was afterwards twice re-attempted,
upon the hopes of ha∣ving brought the Negro's to side with them; but neither time brought along with it any better success: however, resolving not to quit the Enterprise, they came to a more close agreement with the Blacks; who, as an assurance to per∣form their Undertaking, deliver'd into their hands several Hostages: the De∣sign they laid to be put in execution with the first opportunity. At last having pitched upon a time, at night came a Negro call'd Antonio, with a Canoo, sent by the Fantyns, declaring, that the People about Anemabo and Adja could not be ready at the appointed hour, but in the morning they would not fail them with their promised help and assistance; adding moreover, that early in the morn∣ing, at the new cast-up Fort of Adja, the Princes Flag should be set up; at which sign the Dutch might go with their whole Power, and Land. Affairs thus concluded, the chief Commanders of the Fleet resolved the following morning to re-attempt the Onset; yet beforehand sent a Letter to the English Commander in chief, thereby requiring the surrender of the Fort without any opposition. Accordingly at eight of the Clock in the morning the Princes Flag being rais'd upon the new-erected Fort of Adja,
they Lanched through with much hazard near the same new Fort, and thence marched in good or∣der along the Shore with the Negro's, to the number of three thousand, every one with a Linnen Cloth about their Necks, to distinguish them from the Enemies Negro's: they came about noon to Anemabo, and drew forth about Musquet-shot Westward of Kormantyn,
to a Hill planted with three Pieces of Ordnance; where they found stout opposition: but at length over-power'd they fled, and then the Hollanders entred the Town and set it on Fire; which by the flame and smoke made the Garrison in the Castle suddenly amazed:
for as soon as they saw the Soldiers with Scaling-Ladders, Hand-Granado's, and other Utensils of War under their Walls, they took down the red Flag from the Tower, and immediately, as it were without a stroke, deliver'd it up.
Into this Castle were instantly some Soldiers out of the Garrison of the Castle of Myne and Moure, put to guard and defend it.
To the subduing of this Fort,
the Hollanders were not a little animated, by the promise of help and assistance from the Braffo, and his Kabo Seros of Fantyn; which they purchased of them,
as we hinted before, for two and fifty Bars of Gold, amounting to about two thousand five hundred pounds English Money.
Half a mile Westward off Kormantyn,
and a mile and half Eastward from Mowe, stands Anemabo, divided into two sorts, whereof one half is inhabited by the Fishermen of the Myne, and the other by the Fishermen of Fantyn; both which, for all that they take, pay to the Braffo once a week a small Custom. The Road here is very commodious and safe for Shipping.
At Canon-shot distance Westward of Anemabo,
lieth another Town call'd Adja,
where the Dutch had a small Fort taken by the English, in the Year Six∣teen