C 687 ) 
III, Part of Two Letters from Mr. J. Hilller, 
dated Cape Corfej Jan. 3. i6%l. and Apr. 
2 5< 1 588. Wrote to the Reverend Dr.- 
Bathuril^ Trefident of Trinity Colledge, 
Oxon ; gi^'i^g (^ti Account of the Cujioms of 
the Inhabitants^ the Ah\ &c, of that Place^ 
together wtth an Account of the Weather there 
from Nov. 24. %6%6. to the fame Day 
Cape CorfCf Jan. 3. i68j, 
I Thought the Cudcm of defiroying Slaves at the 
Death of Great People had been aboiifh'd and I was 
fo inform'd ; but we have ieen that it is not,- for 0^. 3. 
this Year, dyed Ahen Penm Ajhrive^ King of Feton^ 
here at Cape Corfe, where he had been long fick^ the 
Fetifliers had done ajl they could to fave his Life, v^^hich 
was nothing at all to purpofe ; their Phyfick fcarce ex- 
tends to any thing but the Flux, and what we call the 
French Difeaft his was a Confumption and an Afthma 
(if 1 miftake not the Word} of a great continuance : 
fo they fled to the Aid of their Religion, and according 
it fecms to the Rules of that, they made feveral Pellets 
of Clay, which they fet in his Room, in Rank and File,a!l 
fprlnkled withbbod: befides the feveral Muttons which 
they eat to his good Health. But that was of too little 
Force; {b the Man dyed, having delivered his Sword to 
the Dy, who in the Interregnum was to be the principal 
Mao, for the Kingdom is EleSive, eontrary to whac 
we wrote before, and commanding him to be conftan^^ 
to theEngiifb, of whom hirnfelf hid her a great Fa- 
VQurerj with a Threat, if he-was not, or hancing him. 
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