The history of the discovery and conquest of the Canary Islands / translated from a Spanish manuscript [by J. de Abreu de Galindo] lately found in the island of Palma. With an enquiry into the origin of the ancient inhabitants. To which is added, a description of the Canary Islands, including the modern history of the inhabitants, and an account of their manners, customs, trade, &c by George Glas.

  • Abreu de Galindo, Juan de, active 1632.
Date:
1764
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Credit: The history of the discovery and conquest of the Canary Islands / translated from a Spanish manuscript [by J. de Abreu de Galindo] lately found in the island of Palma. With an enquiry into the origin of the ancient inhabitants. To which is added, a description of the Canary Islands, including the modern history of the inhabitants, and an account of their manners, customs, trade, &c by George Glas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tins. CANARY ESLANDS. 427 go to Canaria and Palma, but they are not to be compared to the numbers that arrive at Tenerife. This branch of traflick is al- moft wholly carried on in foreign bottoms, efpecially in Englith, the natives themfelves being afraid to fail on thofe feas, where they may be in danger of being taken by the corfairs of Algiers, Sallee, and other ports of Barbary. Tue greateft part of the aforefaid trade to Europe and the Englifh colonies is in the hands of the Irifh Roman Catholic merchants fettled in Tenerife, Canaria, and Palma, and the def- cendants of the Irifh who formerly fettled there and married Spanifh wives; but in the laft age that trade was engrofled by a factory of Proteftant Englifh merchants who refided at Tenerife: no Proteftants remain there now, nor in any of the reft of the Canary Iflands, excepting the Englifh and Dutch Confuls and two merchants, who all refide at Tenerife. Tue imports here from Great Britain confift chiefly of woollen: goods of various kinds, hats, hard-ware, pilchards, red-herrings, wheat when it is fcarce in the iflands, with a number of other articles which would be too tedious to fpecify. Tue imports from Ireland are chiefly beef, pork, butter,. candles, and falt-herrings. From Hamburgh and Holland, linens of all forts are imported,. to a very great amount; cordage, gun-powder, and coarfe flax, with many other kinds of goods. From Bifcay, a confiderable quantity of bar-iron is annually imported. THE
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