THE WESTERN COAST. ' #83 
man, * and Smith, t as pleasant, salubrious, and fer- 
tile. Cape Monte is represented as the paradise of 
gation. His engaging address, and knowledge of the nume- 
rous languages on the coast, enabled him to gratify his curi- 
osity, by applying to the original sources of information , 
without hazard of imposition. His observations chiefly re- 
late to the Gold Coast, and the kingdoms of Whidah and 
Ardra. 
f The Journal of a Voyage along the coast of Guinea to 
Whidah, the island of St Thomas, and thence to Barbadoes, 
in 1693-4, by Captain Thomas Philips, contains many curi- 
ous observations on the country, the people, their manners, 
forts, trade, &c. but is exceedingly verbose, and crowded 
with minute nautical remarks on the winds, and the course 
of sailing. It is inserted in the 6th vol. of Churchill's Col- 
lection of Voyages. 
J Atkins* Voyage to Guinea, Brasil, and the West Indies, 
in his Majesty's ship the Swallow, of which the author was 
surgeon, was published at London in 1 737. He makes many 
curious remarks on the colour, manners, habits, language, 
customs, and religions of the negroes, and denies the exist- 
ence of cannibals among them. 
* Bosman was chief factor at the Dutch fort of St George 
D'Elmina, and composed, about the beginning of the present 
century, a Description of the Coast of Guinea, divided into 
the Gold, Slave, and Ivory Coasts, in the Dutch language, 
which was soon translated into English. His observations 
are generally exact, though never profound, and he often af- 
fects a kind of broad Dutch humour, which bears, however^ 
little resemblance to genuine wit. 
f Smith's Voyage to Guinea was printed at London ii< 
