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      History And Biography

      HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY

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      Letter I * From Ancona Robin Robiu John . ON March 8 , ) 774 * we sailed from King's-road [ -Bristol ] on board § now Maria Capt * . \ Vm . Floyd and met with a very

      favourable wind to carry us to our own Country which we longedvery much to see . Upon our first setting out we flaw several vessels ^ some bound to Ehsdand , and some to the West

      Indies and spoke with several of then * . We had a very .. fine fair breeze till we judged ourselves as far as the Canary Islands vyhen it besah to blow but little ) winds

      and sometimes calm , at' which tiiTi 6 we used to * hoist pu > r bti&t out to try to catchy some . turtle , great numbers , being ; about us at times , but we could noit . catiih

      any , which put the V&ptain in-a great passion , and was the first £ auso-of his badbohSviour to Mr . jy iorsley Iris mate who led a very bad Yife wli h > M ih , ariy ' ftVffefct afterwards ^ But He ' , Oipt . Floyd , \ $ n § tufbitlfeUc'tioruly man , "" find , to usfc'his own expressions , ; was

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      very often " nuilj * headed /* How ** ever , it sprung up a fine breeze and proceeded oil our course to make the Gape De Verd Islands

      where the Captain often vised to say he would stQ . p to get sonm Jirst [ fresh ] provisions which we all much wondered at $ because . ho had made no use of what we had

      on board . Oa th « the jJSWi of March , we had a vety fine b ^ ee ^ e an 4 f&is weather and thought we mtistbd near to the land , ant } accordingly about 4 * o ' clock in the ev ^ jning we saw the island called Sal Rearing

      from . us * S . W .. by \ V . i W ^ we steering then S . S W . We run that day till it w ^ s dark , the island S ^ tl then bearmgy n \ ght aboqt Se ^ ven o ' clock , W . N * W . distance aibout 5 or 6 leagues ^ We then shorjtdied sail and steered S # by W * and about ten o ' clock saw the

      island JJonavista freafi *? g from §• by " Eu m S * E . The Captain i > e * ing onrdeck ordered the ; course to be sett and thq jibb and st&y sails and steered . S 4 ' - $ . E « The people

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      TtiE * MONTHLY REiPOSiTORY ¦ . ' : - . " . ' . OF ' ' ¦ ¦" ' ' Theology andGeiieralLUeraiure , \ .. x . ¦ \ . ¦ \ ,- - \

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      No . XXXig JULY . [ Vol . Ill ,

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      NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE AND SHlPtRECK OP TWO AFRl € iIlf PRINCES ; IN TWO LETTERS ? ROM ' THEMSELtES TO XHJg » EYf , CHAULES WESLEY *; *** ? ¦ * * * ...

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      • Fo £ thHe IL , ^ ttm ^ rc arei indebted to Mf \ Kxitt , ' Sec tmr last p , ^ 93 * Ed .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1808, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2394/page/1/