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or bight, ending at cape Lopez, wherein are situ¬ 
ated the trading places (being so many villages on 
the banks of several rivers) of Benin, Bonny, Old 
and New Callabar, Cameron, and Gaboon. 
The slaves purchased on this part of the coast, 
have the general denomination of Eboes; probably 
from Arebo, the name of a village, formerly a con¬ 
siderable town, on the river Benin. Some of them 
(a tribe, I believe, from the interior country) are 
likewise called Mocoes. In language they differ 
both from the Gold Coast negroes and those of 
Whidah, and in some respects from each other; 
for from Whidah to Angola, the dialects vary at 
almost every trading river. 
From Cape Lopez to the river Congo, distant 
140 leagues, I believe the trade is chiefly en¬ 
grossed by the Dutch and the French. To the 
southward of this river, very little trade is carried 
on by any Europeans except the Portuguese, who, 
as hath been observed, have a large city at Loango 
St. Paul’s, on the coast of Angola, strongly fortifi¬ 
ed 5 from which place they have penetrated quite 
through the country to their settlements at, and 
south of Mozambique, upon the eastern coast of 
Africa, where they have caravans constantly going 
and returning, and by that means carry on an ex¬ 
tensive and advantageous inland commerce. 
The whole number of forts and factories esta¬ 
blished on the coast by the different powers of Eu- 
