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kj tiH a boat from th * Calypso came to Ms relief * . " His ^ wife ^ jhaving witnessed the fate of luer husband , was made prisorier , and carried along with the Bijugas in their retreat , with their other prisoners and booty , across the island * 4 > u £ bei « g ^ nMw * tunately lame , and unable to ^ ep :-faee ' ' . wifeb--t | iLeiQ ^ . ; she wai deliberately shot !
This surprisal and massacre of rtie polqiiists is a deedtoo horrible ta be related without indignation , but let us not fcy ^ t that the Bijugas , to whom the island of Bulama belonged , considered the landing of strangers upon it without leave as an ia *
vasion * and the cutting down timber , and burning the gra ^ s , without the plea of right and even in wantonness , as a £ t $ of spoliation and plunder . More civilised nations have always reasoned in the same way , and have , frequently , been not tess sanguinary and cruel in avenging their rights and dignities *
The colonists , as pusillanimous now as they had been presumptuous before , hastened back , without attempting to recover the dead , to Bissao ; and here , as has been stated , the three vessels effected a junction . The interoourse between them wa $ ^ as might have been expected , frequent and intimate ; and th ^ Calypso communicated to the other two , dirt , disorder , dis- * satisfaction , disease and melancholy . Th ^ ir tapiting proYed * eventually , as lamentable an event as their parting .
The steps next to be pursued were the redemption of the prisoners , and the purchase of the island of Bulama , The prisoners were redeemed at the price of slaves . € These women had been Tery well treated by the Canabncs ( the Biiu ^ as who made the attack were so called from residinsr on the isle
of Canabac ) , for ^ vhich they were probably indebted to the national prejudice of these people , who look upon white ypsaea rather as objects of disgust than desire * Their devil is white . ** The island was purchased of Jalorein a , rxd JJellchore , the two Canabac kings who held it in sovereignty , for four hundred and seventy-three bales of goods f Capu B « alluded delicately ^ ndc cautiously to the late attack .
€€ Jaierem replied ^ tliat what was done was done ; that lie was sorry for what had happened ; but that then they neither knew who we were , nor our intentions ; we were strangers , and we took their larid ; however he knew now that we were good people } hopod we should always be good friends , and was glad , very glad , to see me at Canabac / 9
A better excuse for similar outrages has seldom been set up by the civilized courts of Christian Europe ! ' These measures were carried into effect almost solely by the ? He died * few days afterward f jZl 16 s . 8 d . sterling .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1806, page 270, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1724/page/46/
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