3 $6 MifcellamA Curiofa: Vol. 



Tart of T^vDo Letters from Mr.], 

 Hillier, dated O^^tQoxiQ^ Jan. 

 3.1681. and Apr. 25. 1688. 

 jVrote to the Keverend 'Dr. Ba- 

 thurft, Trefident of Trinity 

 Coliedge, Oxon ; giving an 

 Account of the Cufioms of the 

 Inhabitants.^ the jlh\ &c. of 

 that Tlace.^ together 'with an Ac- 

 count of the JVeather there from 

 Nov. 24.. 1686. to the fame 

 'Day 1687. 



Cape Corfe^ 'Jan. 3. i58f« 



I Thought the Cuftom of deftroying Slaves 

 at the Death of great People had beea 

 abolifh'd, and I was fo inform'd ; but we have 

 feen that it is not , for OB. 3. this Year, died 

 jihen Penin Ajlorive^ King of Feton^ here at 

 Cafe, Corfe^ where he had been long lick ^ the 

 Fetifhers had done all they could to fave his 

 Life, which was nothing at all to purpofe j 

 their Phyfick fcarce extends to any thing but 

 the Flux, and what we call the French Dif- 

 €afe 3 his was a Coafuinption and an Afthma 



