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 Luts; and perhaps they ubtitute the former in room of a Surgeon, as a Counterpoion to the Michiefs of a promicuous Salacity: They have mot of them Venereal Taints, and with Age become meager and hectick: I aw two Intances here of Venereal Ulcers that had cancerated to the Bowels, Spectacles that would have effectually perwaded Men (I think) how Salutary the Retriction of Laws are.

Annobono is the lat, and of the leat Conequence of the three Ilands; there are Plenty of Fruits and Proviions, exchanged to Ships for old Cloaths and Trifles of any Sort; they have a Governor nominated from St. Thome, and two or three Priets, neither of which are minded, every one living at Dicretion, and fill’d with Ignorance and Lut.

To return to Davis, the next Day after he left Anamaboe, early in the Morning, the Man at the Mat-Head epied a Sail. It mut be oberved, they keep a good Look-out; for, according to their Articles, he who firt epies a Sail, if he proves a Prize, is entitled to the bet Pair of Pitols on Board, over and above his Dividend, in which they take a ingular Pride; and a Pair of Pitols has ometimes been old for thirty Pounds, from one to another.

Immediately they gave Chace, and oon came up with her; the Ship proved to be a Hollander, and being betwixt Davis and the Shore, he made all the Sail he could, intending to run aground; Davis gueed her Deign, and putting out all his mall Sails, came up with her before he could effect it, and fired a Broad-ide, upon which he immediately truck, and called for Quarter. It was granted, for according to Davis’s Articles, it was agreed, that Quarter hould be given whenever it was called for, upon Pain of Death. This