The Future Voyager May With Security Depend On
This Place For Laying In Many Parts Of His Stock.
Among these may be
enumerated sugar, coffee, rum, port wine, rice, tapioca, and tobacco,
besides very beautiful wood for the purposes of household furniture.
Poultry is not remarkably cheap, but may be procured in any quantity;
as may hops at a low rate.
The markets are well supplied with butcher's meat,
and vegetables of every sort are to be procured at a price next to nothing;
the yams are particularly excellent. Oranges abound so much, as to be sold
for sixpence a hundred; and limes are to be had on terms equally moderate.
Bananas, cocoa nuts, and guavas, are common; but the few pineapples
brought to market are not remarkable either for flavour, or cheapness.
Besides the inducements to lay out money already mentioned, the naturalist
may add to his collection by an almost endless variety of beautiful birds
and curious insects, which are to be bought at a reasonable price,
well preserved, and neatly assorted.
I shall close my account of this place by informing strangers,
who may come here, that the Portuguese reckon their money in rees,
an imaginary coin, twenty of which make a small copper piece called a 'vintin',
and sixteen of these last a 'petack'. Every piece is marked with the number
of rees it is worth, so that a mistake can hardly happen. English silver coin
has lost its reputation here, and dollars will be found preferable
to any other money.
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