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    th $ * isl ^ n 4 w « in habited . But the s ^ me morn i ng ' spnje of us

    going back into the country s&w several black people which came to the Captain , and by ; the help of our black man Joe disppvered and found them to be Portuguese but very inhospitable

    blood-thirsty people who would think it no sin to kill a Christian for the sake of his , shirt that lie had on his bac ^ . They brought us some goats which we bought of them for clothes which some of us had luckily brought ashore . We con *

    tinued among them four days and then travelled over to the another side of the island where the Por . tugtje . se told us there was an English yessell lying , XVc had to travel about 40 or 45 ' miles through the most wretched road that was ever travelled by men , some places quite impassable , where we had recourse to jack * a ^ ses of which ttyere is great quantity there . In this journey we had nothing to eat or

    drink all the way except a little filthy \ frater we found that was half fresh and hzvlf salt . When we come over tp the p lace where the vessel } ay we made signs ( to the people aboard , who send their

    poat ashore , wjben we informed them of " our unhappy condition . But they was unable to assist us > yitl > any things they having no provisions aboard theij : vessel , nor had eaten brpad for two or three weeks p ^ st . Bat promise us a passage ir \ their vessel , for Bar « badoes , yvhich we ~ " very joyfully accepted , and in the mean time we live ^ l ashore upon good fl esh that we icaught ourselves , for we bad nothing left , now to sell and jvas obliged to catch goats ourselves to keep us from starving .

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    Ttjxj Portuguese would i \ ot give ps any thing if they Was to S ^ e \ i >

    dyipg for it . The people this side of th ^ island is yery inhuman and not h ^ lf so gp ' od as the intia * bitants of the north side . We forgot to mention that one of dispeople dyed , the north side ,

    whom the Portuguese immediately burnt , it being contrary to t ^ eir faith to give burisil tp q Christian whom they called here * , tics . We s ^ aid living in this lparu ner for thirteen or fourteen days more , and on April— , we bailed

    for Barbadoes inxixumber fifteen . The rest of our people went aboard a ship bound to Guinea , anc | ^ ome was left ashore on the island , it being impossible-for us to come altogether ^ without a great danger of being starved , we having no * thing to live on but a few goats

    some of which we sa \ ted and some we took aboard alive , with a little Indjau pp ' -rnj but very little meat there , belonging to any master on the island and that very hard to come at . Before we reached the island of B ^ rbartoes we was \ j % a most shocking situation and al * most emaciated , our > provisions and wqrter being ajl gone , though we used very sparingly , apd even eat the goats that died , allowing ourselves but a very small qu ^ nt tity of water , and its impossi * ble to describe the joy we felt at

    seeing the Island Barbadoes , jiof having at that time a drop of water left . We begged pf the people in boats for God ' s sajce tfi go and fetch us a little \ yi | ter wbiph they very generously did

    and it greatly revived oar droop * ing spirits . We came injo Carlisle bay thpt evening \ yhere some went ashore . and some of x * $ vyent aboard another vesse ^ l that \ va s

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1808, page 355, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2394/page/3/