A voyage to Guinea, Brasil and the West Indies

Chapter 1: A VOYAGE TO Guinea, Brasil, and the West-Indies;

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An 18th-century sea narrative recounts voyages along West African and Atlantic coasts and through Brazilian and Caribbean ports, offering detailed descriptions of local environments, winds, tides, and navigational hazards, and of inhabitants' appearance, diets, languages, customs, and religions. It includes practical remarks on gold, ivory, and the slave trade, notes on prevailing diseases and climate, and an appended practical surgical manual addressing notable cases and treatment of venereal disease, with observations on remedies and public-health practices. The text mixes navigational guidance, ethnographic observation, and medical advice intended for mariners and readers considering travel.

A
VOYAGE
TO
Guinea, Brasil, and the
West-Indies;

In His Majesty’s Ships, the Swallow
and Weymouth.

Describing the several Islands and Settlements, viz—Madeira, the Canaries, Cape de Verd, Sierraleon, Sesthos, Cape Apollonia, Cabo Corso, and others on the Guinea Coast; Barbadoes, Jamaica, &c. in the West-Indies.

The Colour, Diet, Languages, Habits, Manners, Customs, and Religions of the respective Natives, and Inhabitants.

With Remarks on the Gold, Ivory, and Slave-Trade; and on the Winds, Tides and Currents of the several Coasts.

By JOHN ATKINS,
Surgeon in the Royal Navy.

Illi Robur & Æs triplex

Circa Pectus erat, qui fragilem truci

Commisit Pelago Ratem

Primus——

Horat.

LONDON;

Printed for Cæsar Ward and Richard Chandler, at the Ship, between the Temple-Gates in Fleet-Street; And Sold at their Shop in Scarborough. M.DCC.XXXV.