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the Chimfe : At the Weft end of this Ifland is the Harbour, 
very fafe and convenient, where the Ships ride within call 
of the Faftory, which is built clofe by the fhore on a low 
plain Valley, with near 200 HQufes. about it for the benefit 
of Trade ^ inhabited by Men, whofe Jealoufie has not as 
yet permitted them to let their Wives dwell here § for tlie 
Town where they are, is| of a mile further from the Shore, 
environed with a fine Stone Wall, about 3 miles in Circum- 
ference, mounted with 22 fquare Baftions placed at irregu-*- 
lar diftances, -befides 4 great Gates, on which are planted a 
few old Iron Guns, feldom or never u(M : the Houfes 
within are very meanly built : Here thQ. CMmpeen or Go^ 
vernour of the Ifland lives, and betwixt 9 and 4 thoufand 
beggarly Inhabitants, raoft part Souldiers and Filhermen ^ 
for the Trade of this place being newly granted, has not as 
yet brought any confiderable Merchants hither. The Mahd 
in general abounds with all forts <Jf Provifibns, fuch as 
Cows, BufFelo'S, Goats, Deer, Hogs wild and tame, Geefe, 
Ducks and ttens 5 Rice, Wheat, Calavances, Coleworts, 
Turnips, Potatoes, Carrots, Beetes and Spinach 5 But tor 
Merchandize there's none but what comes immNing-fo.Eang'- 
chwy l^mKin and the Inland To wns, fome ^of which I hope 
to lee, when I have acquir'd a little of Chimfe L^anguagec 
Here alfo the Tea grows in great plenty on the tops of the 
Hills, but it is not in that efteem with what grows ofi 
more Mountainous Iflands. Altho this Ifland is pretty well 
ftor'd with People, yet it's far from what it was in M^r- 
tinius^iimt^ when he defcribe^ Ch^^an : and this puts me 
in mind, that the Superftitious' Pilgrimages thereto, menti- 
on'd by him, muft be meant of the Ifland Pa//- ft?, which lyes 
9 leagues from hence, and 3 miles to the Eaftward of this 
lfla,nd, whither (they 'fay ), 't^^^ Emperour defigns in the 
TO©nth oiMdy and the 4cth 
yeaf of his Age) to cotfie to wbrfhip irt an Ancicat Pa- 
god there, famous for Sandtity 5 having fent one of his 
^m^5 already thither, to get all things ia ordeK 
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