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intrepidity arid wfecJotfe of Cayil . Beaver , who , in the micTst o £ « tiatio&of savages , the murderers of his fellow-cdkkiists ; seems td > have possessed as much ease and presence of mind as if he had been surrounded by countrymen and friends * He was , however , ill supported by his associates in the Bulam adventnrei
for whilst he was negoci&ting- the purchase of the island , they were deliberating on its relinquishirrent I Immediately on his return , he proceeded ^ as far as he was abte , to take possession * of the island * and to prepare for settling on it and cultivating it ; but he soon found that it was the real design of the Cotin- * cil to abandon the colony . The design was soon avowed , and and a resolution taken accordingly .
•<**' ' Against this resolution of the council , " says Capt . B . ' *¦ 1 / with three Others ^ entered my protest \ but two out of those three thought proper to go away with the rest ; and at the same time I informed the council , that I sliould remain on the island with mv servant , though every body else might leave it , and ! expected , therefore , that oner vessel would be left with me 1
c < My determination bemg known , many persons came and voluntarily offered to remain with me . The next morning they amounted to between 80 and ( JO $ it was therefore , on that day , agreed , that the fitarikey and Beggar ' s Benison should remain at Bulama with us , and the Calypso proceed with all convenient expedition to Sierra Leone , and thence to England , with those persons who were desirous to leave the island /'
The Calypso left Bulama , July 19 , carrying with her 147 persons $ 90 remained with Capt . B . These numbers , added to 38 , who had either been discharged , or had deserted , who Kad died on the passage , or had been killed at Bulama , make up the number (? T 5 ) which , three months before , had left England in health and Spirits , united and orderl y *
Gapt . B / s narrative here terminates . His Journal of the Transactions during his further stay at Bulama next follows , frdru which we shall make a few extracts , for the entertain ^ nient of our readers , in our next number , ([ To be continued . ]
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Further particulars of the REV . D . THOMAS . —The following additional account of Mr . David Thomas , whose lamented death was noticed in the Repository for March , has been transmit * ted to us by " a correspondent , and will , we presume , be acceptable to { he gene ?
\ f-. . ¦ ' ¦ ' - rality of our readers , those of them espe- ? cially to whom he was known : — ** Me Was born , if I am not mistaken , in 1775 . His father ' s name was Enoch Thomas , who occupied a small farm in the upper part of Pembrokeshire ^ and not for froiji Cardigan . He dicdinthc
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1806, page 271, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1724/page/47/
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