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The Introduétion. 
Their Trade among the Spaniards privately in America manag’d 
chiefly by Sloops, is with all chofe things mention’d to come from 
Europe, efpecially Clothing, as Serges, ec. on which they have ei- 
ther in Truck or Money 55. per cent. Gain, one moiety whereof 
goes to the Mafters and Owners of the Sloops, the other co the 
Merchant Adventurer. There are alfo many Negros fold this way to 
the Spaniards, who are either brought lately from Guinea, or bad 
Servants, or Mutinous in Plantations. They are fold to very good 
profit; bur if they have many Cicatrices, or Scars on them, the marks 
of their fevere Corrections, they are not very faleable. 
The Commodities the Englifh have in return, befides money, moft 
ufually are Cacao, Sarfaparilla, Pearls, Emeralds, Cochineel, Hides,¢e. 
The Trade of famaica with the Dutch at Corafol is chiefly for 
Provifions which are wanted very much on that Ifland. The 
Iland of Corafol is very {mall, and very little Provifion grows on it, 
The chief advantage the Dutch have of it, is, that ‘tis a place 
whereto Goods are brought to Trade with the Spaniards privately 
on the Continent of America, for which purpofe ’tis very advantage- 
oufly feated. 
The Turtlers who furnith the Ifland with Turtle, may be reckoned 
among the trading Sloops. 
There is likewile a Trade with this Ifland from New-Eneland, and 
New York. Ic confifts ufually in an exchange of Rum, Moloflus, 
Sugar, and Money, for Horfes, Beef, Pork, Flower or Rusk, ‘tis 
manag’d by Brigantines, or {mall Craft, who now and then touch 
at the Babama Iflands, and kill Seals, or Whales for the Train-Oil, 
or Sperma Ceti. 
When the Trade of the Affento for furnifhing the Spanifh Weft- 
Indies with Negros was in this Ifland, ic was not only very bene- 
ficial to the African Company and their Factors, bur to the Go- 
vernours of this Ifland, as'well as the Captains of the Frigats who 
convey dthem to Porto Belo, and on their delivery there had imme- 
diately paid them the Money agreed on by the Head. 3 
The Religion of thofe of the Ifland, either Europeans, or defcended 
from them Creolians, is as in England, and the {ame proportion of 
Diflenters are there as in England, 
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