Volume 1

A new general collection of voyages and travels. Consisting of the most esteemed relations, which have been hitherto published in any language; comprehending everything remarkable in its kind, in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America.

Date:: 1745-1747

Credit: A new general collection of voyages and travels. Consisting of the most esteemed relations, which have been hitherto published in any language; comprehending everything remarkable in its kind, in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Description of the Q av k de San Jim, Point is the Fuurno. Give that Point a Birth of a Morning Islands. moft ufed, very few or B'av*. jitt]e more than half a Cable, for fear of not fetching into the Bay, which turns-up like an Elbow, and you may anchor where you pleafe; but neareft on the Eaft Side is bcft. It is belt mooring with a Fall: alhore, and not to fwing, but have afmall Haufer alhore, from the Stern to the Northward, where you will lie as fnug as in an Oven. In cafe you happen to come from the Eaftward to this Ifland, take Care not to run about to the South End of St. Philip ; for then, with a common Trade-Wind, you t° Scio Boy. There is Artb'iring- Pluce. Verde This Road is being acquainted with the Fuurno b. SCIO is a fair, fandy Bay, but difficult come into, and without any Water, likewife Sal Point Bay, where Roberts loft his Ship, which is Efficiently defcribed in the Jour¬ nal. There are other Bays alfo, but not worth mentioning. I n the Leewardmoft of the little IHands, a- bout the South- Weft End, there is a little Cove, very fit for a fmall VeiTel to lie; and although there are fome great Stones, or Rocks, in it, yet 667 San Nico- lao. Fic:«ndo de Agua. vuv-'iJ) w 1 in a c-uuiuiwn jl ihuv.- » » j w o--1 — ' * j cannot fetch the Fuurno, nor hardly any Point of the Bottom may be feen, as in moft Places about the Bland a. thefe Blands, in feven, eight, nine, ten or twelve On the North-Weft Side is another Bay, cal- Fathom Water ; and you have Room enough to led Faciend de Agua, diftinguilhed by the Banana- moor, and fwing clear of thofe Stonesc. Trees, no Valley but this being vifible from the Sea. The Bay has a fhingly Beach, and you may anchor near the Middle, toward, the North Side, in eight, nine, and ten Fathom, clean Ground, and a frelh running Water almoft down to the Beach. F«ri tx Bay. Farther down, to Leeward, on the South- Weft Side of the Bland, about a fmooth, low Point, but rifing high fuddenly, is the Ferrier Bay, which is a double one; a high Bluff-Rock, di¬ viding in two the Beach, which is large Pebbles, looking, at a Diftance, like Shingle. This is a fair Bay, with a fmooth Landing-place, and a Lake, or Bafon of frefh Water, behind the South-Eaftermoft Beach, which is conftantly fed by the Water from the Mountains. This Bay is all over clean Ground; in fome Places Sand, but SECT. VII. The IJland of San Nicolao, or St. Nicholas. Its Site and Extent. Face of the Land. The Coafls. Paraghifi Road. Puerto Lappa. Currifal Road. Terrafal Road. Good Watering every¬ where. Chief Town. Inhabitants: Their Num¬ ber: Colour: Their Women. The Vulgar thievi/h. Fojfils : Nitre. Beur d'Ore. Soil: Fertility. Dragon-Tree. Cattle. Wild Goats and Cows: Much diminijked; increafe again. Manufactures. Trade. Proprietor of the IJland. ACCORDING to Caprain Roberts, St. Site and Nicholas (or San Nicolao, as the Portu-Extent. au uvw cicai. vj.uuuu, x gueze call it) is thelongeftof all the Cape de Verde generally a ftiff Ooze, or Clay, and commonly Blands, except St. Jago. Its Port Paraghifi lies the Sea runs fmooth on the Beach. There is a from Palmera in the Ble of Sal, Weft-Southerly Kaay, or Rock, on the North-Weft Side, to about thirty Leaguesd; and in North Latitude which you may put the Boat; and it would be a fixteen Degrees, forty-five Minutes, and v eft good Riding-Place, were it not for the ftrong Longitude from the Cape de Verde fix Degrees, Flaws which come down the Valleys; which fifty-two Minutese. ... happen moftly \n November, December, and fa- DAMP IE Riays, its Shape is triangular; nuary, and come fo violent, if there be a Gale of e that the largeft Side lying to the Eaft, is aoout Wind, that a Ship cannot turn into it, or always thirty Leagues long, and the other two about ftay there at anchor, if Ihe be in; as fared with twenty Leagues each. Headds, that it lsmountam- a Portupucze Veffel. Nor is the Road fafe in the ous, and barren all round towards the Sea-Coaft .Faceoftfa Rains and (hifting Wind Seafons; when the South- ROBERTS fays, this Bland is moftly high Band, Eaft, South, and South-Weft Winds, to which Land s, the higheft being a flat Sugar-Loaf-hke it lies open, bring in a great Sea, enough, if Mountain, terminating at Top with a rounding, ftrong, to drive a Ship alhore. For the reft of not a lharp-pointed Peek h. It is called Monte the Year it is good Riding here, and in fine Gourda, and lies on the North-Weft Side 1 but Weather, efpecially March, April, and May, a good way up in the Land, and may be feen on you have a Southerly Sea-Breeze in the Evening, f any Side of the Ifland at nine or ten Leagues and Land-Breezes all Night, and till ten in the Diftance k. * Roberts's Voyage, p. 433. b Ibid. p. 434, fa. f tbid p. 435- 1 d fays, it lies Weft South-Weft from Sal. about twenty-two Leagues. See his Voyages, vol. 1. p. 74.. See Roberts's Voyage, p. 436. 1 Dampin'% Voyages, vol. 1. p. 74. s S[gh’A ft<fep Wltn ,a great many Gullies. Roberts's Voyages, p. 23. b Ibid. }>. 44* • 1 The Author {*Y*> towards the Weft End, p. 441, Ibid p. 11 40.2 The$