Here we met with ye Barbadoes Merchant[…] James Cock, Master, laden with Salt, Mules, andAfricos.
Quoted in2005, James A. Rawley, Stephen D. Behrendt,The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History (page 298)
[…] a cargo of wine, sugar, salt, and tobacco, bought in exchange “forAfricoes, which she carried from the Isle of Maio” (one of the Cape Verde Islands).