The Ghanaian Fante also became renowned for their seafaring experience and involvement with English slave ships (Rediker, 2011, p. 237) and the same phenomenon occurred with the various cabinda and muxiluanda fishermen who worked in the cabotage industry in eighteenth-century Angola (Rodrigues, 2007, p. 49-61). The Bijagós from what is today Guinea-Bissau were also recognized as skilled sailors (Priore and Venâncio, 2004, p. 103, p. 107). Men from the Benguela area were trained to become sailors (Candido, 2010, p. 399), as similar activities emerged on the east coast. African sailors were involved in cabotage for journeys between Africa and Asia, in the Muslim establishments of Arabia and India (Devisse and Labib, 2010, p. 745) and in the slave and merchandise trades between the Indian coast, the United States of America and the kingdom.