St. Jago T, defcribed. ^ i 
buy any Cattle, I muft give Mony ^ox: An.i 6 <)^: 
them. I contented my felf with taking in 
Dunghil Fowls : The Governor ordering 
a Cryer to go about the Town and give 
notice to the People, that they might repair 
to fueh a place with Fowls, and Maiz for 
feeding theni, where they might get Salt in 
exchange for them : So I fent on board for 
Salt, and ordered fome of my Men to truck 
the fame for the Fowls and Maiz, while 
the reft df them were hulie in filling of Wa- 
ter. This is the effect of their keeping no 
Boats of their own on the feveral Iflands, 
that they are 'glad to buy even their own 
Salt of Foreigners, for want of being able 
to tranfpoit it themfelves from Ifland to 
Ifland. 
St. ‘Jago Town lies on the S. W. part of 
the Ifland, in Lat. about 15 Deg. N. 
and is the Seat of the General Governour, 
and of the Bifhop of all the Cape Verd 
Iflands. This Town ftands fcattering a- 
gainft the fides of two Mountains, be- 
tween which theie is a deep Valley, which 
is about 200 Yards wide againft the Sea ; 
but within a quarter of a mile it clofes up 
fo as not to be 40 Yards wide. In the 
Valley, by the $ea, there is a ftragling 
Street, Houfes on each fide, and a Run of 
Water in the bottom, which empties it 
felf into a fine fmall Cove or fandy Bay, 
where the Sea is commonly very fmooth: 
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