A new account of Guinea, and the slave-trade — John Shaqi
A new account of Guinea, and the slave-tradeSnelgrave, William
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A new account of Guinea, and the slave-trade
Snelgrave, William
Guinea -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; Slave trade -- Africa, West -- Early works to 1800
gather from his Discourse was, That they esteemed him as an invisible
Guardian Angel, subordinate to another God; adding, “Perhaps that
God might be ours, who had communicated so many extraordinary Things
to white Men; as he had been informed by Mr. _Lambe_: But as that
God had not been pleased to make himself known to them, they must be
satisfied with this they worshipped.”
By this time the Mob being grown thin, on the side where we stood,
I told the Linguist, we would return to our Tent; and I invited the
Colonel to go along with us, which he readily promised. Accordingly
our Guard having made way for us, we left this horrible Place and
Sight, not having received the least Affront, tho’ we were near two
Hours by the Stages.
At our return we understood, the King had sent the Duke word, he
should have an Audience that Evening; whereupon I endeavoured to
cheer him up by telling him, “That we had been civilly used at the
Sacrifices, and that nothing could more conduce to his Reputation,
than his appearing before the King, in his usual sprightly Carriage
and Behaviour,” which was indeed natural to him. On this he went from
us to the Great Captain’s Tent, in order to prepare himself to go to
the Audience. But the Colonel remained with us, drinking merrily of
_European_ Liquors, and in the Evening he asked us, “Whether we would
take a walk, and see that Quarter of the Camp where his Tent stood?”
This we readily agreed to, and in our way past by the place where the
sacrificed Bodies were thrown. There were two great heaps of them,
consisting, as they said, of four hundred Persons, and who had been
chose out by the King that very Morning.
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