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Rh hardly hold out one day's battery. To the fourthward is a little uburb, inhabited only by black fihermen; it conits of low thatched cottages; which hardly deerve the name of buildings. Beyond this is an out-guard of Blacks who erve to give intelligence to the fort; but there is no other fortification on this ide.

The black town, ituate to the northward, adjoins the white town, and is coniderably larger. Here Portugee, Indians, Armenians, and others dwell; It is built in the form of a quare, and more than a mile and a half in circumference; being urronded with a brick will eventeen feet thick, with bations at proper ditances, after the modern way