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can't tell, then his Legs are cut off below the 

 Knees^ and his Arms below the Elbow, after- 

 ward his Thigh and his Arms below theShoul;- 

 der, laftly his Head. 



A Man would not expeft any thing more 

 barbarous than this \ yet there is a Cuftom 

 which has fomething worfe-, when any one has 

 new Drums or Trumpets, 'tis necelfary that 

 they be confecrated with Humane Blood : I 

 have known but one happen of this Kind, 

 that was Jan. \6%f. when after the Man ^ 

 had been executed after the former rate, a- 

 bout Eight in the Morning ; at one in the 

 Afternoon, they drank Palm-Wine out of the 

 upper part of his Skull, and this in the light 

 of all the Faftors at Cape Corfe^ 



I remember for the Unhealthinefs of the 

 Place, you propofed to inquire if it were 

 Woody, and if any good might be done to 

 it by cutting down the Woods, as has hap- 

 pened in many jimerican Plantations ; of that 

 Matter this is what I can fay. 



The Shore lies almoft Eaft and Weft, ex- 

 posed to the Sea wholly upon the South, the 

 Country is Hilly, the Hills not very high, 

 but thick, cluftering together, the Valleys 

 between extream narrow, the whole in a 

 manner coverM with certain Shrubs, low, but 

 rerythick^ what the People Till, comesnot 

 tb above a Tenth part of their Ground and 

 where they do Till, it hinders not that with- 

 in half a Year the Ground is over-grown as 

 before, for they do not root up the Shrubs, 

 but only cut, or Ibmetimes burn them fome- 

 what clbfe to the Earth, fo they fpring agaia 

 in a very little time this is fulficient for 



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