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and in a little time he was not only liberated , but obtained also all that he demanded . -. - " I < s It appears singular , " says the author , f € that the island whieft gives name to the cluster called the Canaries , which alone of them all
has a city , and which till very lately has been the residence of the Governor-General , should have so little communication , with Europeans , that the arrival of a single ship . should produce surprize , and excite ^ ptifiosity in its inhabitants : this arises from its want of a good anchorage for shipping , which deprives it of all direct commerce with Europe * Its produce and live stock , of which a great deal is reared on the island ,
is always sent to Santa Cruz in Tenenffe , by small vessels which pass daily between those two islands $ so that the merchants of Santa CniZ ; purchase the whole exported produce of the Grand Canada , and come * m between the productors and the " merchants of Europe , to the great disadvantage of that island . To which may be added , that the Governor-General , who formerly resided at Palmas in Canarja , now makes
lais residence at Santa Cruz in Teneriffe , to the manifest prejudice of the former . A few small craft employed in fishing for their own consumption , on the neighbouring coast of Africa , is the only other trade , if such it can be called , carried cm by the inhabitants of this island /* Whea the Harikey arrived at Santa Cruz , she found that the Calypso had already been there , Lmt that having the small-pox onboard , her people had not been permitted to land , and that she had-made sail without 'fearing the Hankev any intonation
jgF a second rendezvous . It was still hoped that she might be found at St . Jago . Disappointed in this expectation , the Hankey , after talcing in a suitable stock of provisions , proceeded on to Cape Roxo , and the Bijuga channel , till on the morning of tiie 5 th June , she anchored in sight of the three islands of Bissao , Areas and Bulama . rAt Bissao is a Portuguese factory . Two vessels were discovered at anchor there . On approaching fhe place in the long boat , Capt . B . and the Captain of the Hankev were joined by one of them , an American slave-ship , whose master ^* one Moore" ) conducted them to the factory ,-
where they were surprized to find a regular square fort with four bastions , and apparently , for they were not'permitted to go round the works , about fifty guns mounted . They here heard that a strange ship , which they supposed to be the Calypso , had been about ten days in the Bulama channel , ' and found that their own arrival , added to the appearance of the former
vessel , had created some alarm at Bissao . € C The strange conduct /* says Gapt . £ " of the former ship in avoids it ) g communication with this place , and our appearance so soon afterwards in a channel where they were not accustomed to see any squarerigged vessels , except their own four annual ones , produced distrvist a % well as surprize , in the minc ^ of , the Portuguese , and they actually took us fgr . pirates . The t ^ iis ^ cjii ^ iace was that we were allmade prisoners ; and thu&j thougli-at peace with all the world , have I- been .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1806, page 209, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1723/page/41/
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