From _Acra_ (where stands the last of the _European_ Settlements, on this part of the Coast,) to _Jaqueen_, is about 60 Leagues. In this Tract there are no Factories but at two places, namely at _Whidaw_, and _Jaqueen_. And tho’ they have been so long settled by the _Europeans_, yet till the late Conquest of them by the King of _Dahomè_, we could learn but little of the Inland parts; no white Men having been permitted to go beyond the Kingdom of _Ardra_, which is about 50 Miles from the Sea side. But, as I have related in the following Sheets what I saw and heard when I was there; so I omit farther mention of it here. From _Jaqueen_ to the Bay of _Bennin_, and so round to the _Callabars_, _Camerones_, and _Cape Lopez_, is above 300 Leagues, in which long Tract there is no Settlement of any _European_ Nation; so of course the Natives are for the most part barbarous and uncivilized. I have, in my younger years, traded to many places in this Tract, especially at _Old Callabar_, where, in the year 1704, I saw a sad Instance of Barbarity. The King of the place, called _Jabrue_, being fallen sick, he caused, by the advice of his Priests, a young Child about ten Months old, to be sacrificed to his God, for his recovery. I saw the Child after it was killed, hung up on the Bough of a Tree, with a live Cock tied near it, as an addition to the Ceremony. The last Voyage I went to this place, was in the year 1713, when I commanded the Ship _Anne_, belonging to Messieurs _Bradley_, _Virginia_ Merchants; where I had the good fortune to save a Child from being Sacrificed, as the other poor Infant had been. And tho’ ’tis a long story, and therefore may not so well suit an Introduction, yet on account of the singular Circumstances wherewith it was attended, I believe the Reader may be pleased with it. The chief King, or Lord of the Country (for there are several petty Princes on that River) called _Acqua_, came on board, sometime after my arrival, to see the Ship, and hear our Musick. Being highly pleased with his Entertainment, he kindly invited me on Shore; so I promised to wait on him in a few days. Accordingly I went; but as I knew his People to be fierce brutish Cannibals, I took, by way of precaution, ten of my Sailors as a Guard, with my Gunner to command them. They were all well armed with Musquets and Pistols, which those savage People I knew were much afraid of.