Luſts; and perhaps they ſubſtitute the former in room of a Surgeon, as a Counterpoiſon to the Miſchiefs of a promiſcuous Salacity: They have moſt of them Venereal Taints, and with Age become meager and hectick: I ſaw two Inſtances here of Venereal Ulcers that had cancerated to the Bowels, Spectacles that would have effectually perſwaded Men (I think) how Salutary the Reſtriction of Laws are.
Annobono is the laſt, and of the leaſt Conſequence of the three Iſlands; there are Plenty of Fruits and Proviſions, exchanged to Ships for old Cloaths and Trifles of any Sort; they have a Governor nominated from St. Thome, and two or three Prieſts, neither of which are minded, every one living at Diſcretion, and fill’d with Ignorance and Luſt.
To return to Davis, the next Day after he left Anamaboe, early in the Morning, the Man at the Maſt-Head eſpied a Sail. It muſt be obſerved, they keep a good Look-out; for, according to their Articles, he who firſt eſpies a Sail, if ſhe proves a Prize, is entitled to the beſt Pair of Piſtols on Board, over and above his Dividend, in which they take a ſingular Pride; and a Pair of Piſtols has ſometimes been ſold for thirty Pounds, from one to another.
Immediately they gave Chace, and ſoon came up with her; the Ship proved to be a Hollander, and being betwixt Davis and the Shore, ſhe made all the Sail ſhe could, intending to run aground; Davis gueſſed her Deſign, and putting out all his ſmall Sails, came up with her before ſhe could effect it, and fired a Broad-ſide, upon which ſhe immediately ſtruck, and called for Quarter. It was granted, for according to Davis’s Articles, it was agreed, that Quarter ſhould be given whenever it was called for, upon Pain of Death.
