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confiderable Number that diffented i otherwife it would 
fcarce have been determined without Blood (lied for it 
would fcarce have been poffible for them to have taken 
any Pole. 
I faid, 'twas doubt whether thefe Sacrifices dyed after 
the rate of their oifdinary Executions i if you would 
know that, thus ic is, the Creature that is condemn'ds, 
is made to drink abundance of Palm- Wine, and to dance, 
every body that will, in the mean time ftriking or pufh- 
ing him, when that is over, as is faid, he is thrown 
down, his Face into the Sand, wbich whether it ftifle 
him or not, I can't tell, then his Legs are cut off below 
the Knees, and his Arms below the Elbow, afterward his 
Thigh, and his Arms below the Shoulder, laftly his 
Head. 
A Man would not expeft any thing more barbarous 
than this i yet there is a Cuftom which has fomething 
worfe; when any one has new Drums or Trumpets^ 
^tis necelTary that they be confecrated with Humane 
Blood : I have known but one happen of this Kind, 
that was Jan. 7. 168?. .when after the Man had been 
executed after the former rate, about Eight in the Morn- 
ing ; at one in the Afternoon, they drank Palm- Wine 
out of the upper part of his Skull, and this in the fight 
of all the Factors at Cape Corfe. 
I remember for the Unhealthinefs of the Place, you 
propoftd to inquire if it were Woody, and if any good 
might be done to it by cutting down the Woods, as has 
happen'd in many American Plantations,- of that Matter 
this is what I can fay : 
The Shore lies almoft Eaft and Weft, expos'd to the 
Sea wholly upon the South, the Country is Hilly, the 
Hills not very high, but thick, cluttering together, the 
Valleys between extream narrow, the whole in a manner 
cover'd with certain Shrubs,low,but very thick,what the 
People 
