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touching at St. Antonio, iNIayo, &c., were to go to Fogo to embark 

 the bishop, and convey him to St. Jago, where I was to wait till 

 Mr. Bowdieh had completed his inspection of the former, he then 

 crossing to me in one of the open boats, which frequently go from 

 Fogo to St. Jago. However, on the arrival of the despatches I 

 have already mentioned, we were coolly told, that the plan was 

 altered, that the vessel must go direct to St. Jago, and that 

 another opportunity was very uncertain. Mr. Eowdich naturally 

 expressed himself in terms of great dissatisfaction at tliis capricious 

 treatment, and our host, in consequence, tried to make a bargain 

 with a black man (whose vessel, from the Kiver Gambia, was then 

 in the bay) to take us all to Fogo, wait there as many days as 

 might be required, and then convey us to Bathurst ; but the black 

 trader talked so much of the correspondents who would be 

 awaiting his return, and was so unwilling to accommodate us by 

 touching at Fogo, that Mr. Bowdieh was obliged to relinquish his 

 visit to that island for a time, but fvdly determined to return by 

 one of our vessels of war, which frequently lie at the Cape de 

 Verde islands during the rainy season on the coast, and with a 

 British authority close to him, and a few dollars, he would 

 probably have met with more success, than when trusting to 

 Portuguese professions, the fulfilment of which was demanded by 

 gratitude, and nothing asked on the score of science and discovery. 

 How cruelly even this project was frustrated, is already known to 

 the world, and I have now only to hope, that Fogo will not long 

 remain unexplored, as I have no doubt that it offers a rich harvest 

 to the scientific traveller, and while Teneriffe boasts of such 

 visitors as Von Buch and de Humboldt, it seems lamentable, that 

 a volcano actually burning, not far distant, and equally accessible, 

 should remain wholly unknown. 



Our only alternative was to proceed to the Continent without 

 further delay, and we took our passage direct to Bathurst in the 



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