of Cdpt Eli GLAND. ^^Ay ,15s 



Ofiender v^ith iome of their People to Madaga/cary 

 with JSIews of their SuGcefs, &nd to prepare Wafts 

 for the iPrize ,v ^nd foliowed themlelves foon after, 

 without?Vi:egard tothe Sufferers, cariying 200 Mo'^ 

 zamhi^ue^e^roes m^ them in the Porf^^^^/^ Ship. 



Madag^fcar is an Ifland larger than Gre^t-Britainy 

 moft of k within the Tropicjc of C4/?nW;^, and lays 

 Eaft..frQm the Eaftern Side of Africa: It abounds 

 with Provifions of all Sorts, Oxen, Goats, Sheep, 

 Poultry, Fifh, Citrons, Oranges, Tamarinds, Dates, 

 CQco-Nuts, Bananas, Wax, Honey, Rice v or ia 

 iKort, Cotton, Indigo, or any other Thing they 

 will take Pains to plant, and have Underftanding 

 to manage : They have likewife Ebony, ahard Wood 

 like Brafil, of which they make their Lances; and 

 Gum of fever al Sorts, Benzin, Dragon's Blood, 

 Aloes, c^e?. What is moft ificommodious, are the 

 numerous ^Swarms of Locufts on the Land, and 

 Crococlikf<)r Alligators ini their Rivers. Hither, 

 in St, Augufiin^s ^Vf^ the Ships ibmetimes touch 

 for,. Water, when they take the inner Paflage for 

 Indiay and dp not defign to ftop at Johanna and we 

 may obferve from the Hxth general Voyage fet 

 forth by the E^y?-/^^/^ Company, in Confirmation 

 of what i|5 hereafter faid in Relation to Currents 

 in general ; that this inner Paffage or Channel, 

 has its Northern and Southern Currents ftron- 

 geft where the Channel is narroweft, and is left, 

 and varies on different Points of the Compafs, a?; 

 the Sea comes to Ipread again^ in the Paflage crofs 

 the Line. 



Since the Difcovery of this Ifland by the Tortu-- 

 guefcy A. D.' I ^06 J the Europeans^ and particularly 

 Pyrates, have increaled a dark Mulatto Race there, 

 tho' ftill few in Comparifbn with the Natives, 

 who are Negroes, with curled ftiopt Hair, Adive, 

 and formerly reprefented malicious and revenge- 

 ful, now tractable and communicable, perhaps ow- 



I 4 ing 



