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•nr door from intrasion : and a 

 thousand other meannesses wc daily 

 endure. 



" The Tcry dress of the men 

 (particularly in the morning) is 

 shocking to a person of the com- 

 monest delicacy. They promenade 

 the prison in a thin pair of caliico 

 drawers that scarce reach the knee, 

 with the shirt loose over them, and 

 no stockings or hat : if cool or rainy 

 weather, they sometimes hare the 

 addition of a cloak or bed-gown 

 loosely wrajit round them. In short, 

 maugre every exertion of patience, 

 our situation is miserable ; and most 

 gladly shall I hail the happy day of 

 our arrival in a land of decency." 



" The Carevellos gentlemen have 

 so general an acquaintance, that 

 their extensive room (the largest in 

 the prison) is crowded the whole 

 day, and sometimes nearly all night. 

 The only table is eternally surround- 

 ed with card parties ; another group 

 conversing or disputing ; some eat- 

 ing on a chest, and their slaves hud- 

 dled in a corner. All this creates 

 such a miserable confusion, and per- 

 petual buzzing, that it gives us a 

 constant head ach. The life of 

 these men is a specimen of the coast 

 in general. In their eating, ab- 

 stinent to extreme : yet not actuated 

 thereto by appetite or temperance, 

 but sheer avarice ; as no people fare 

 heartier, or drink more, when par- 

 taking of a plentiful table, and not 

 at their own cxpence. Here they 

 eat scarcely any regular meals, but 

 severally help themselves as their 

 stomach or caprice dictates ; the 

 food being chiefly farnha ; a little 

 soup, or lish licjnor, to moisten it ; 

 with a morsel of meat, or salt or 

 fresh fish, when to be procure d 

 <"liea|). In their sleeping, they ob- 

 serve the same irregularity : some of 



them being on their truckle bed- 

 steads and mats the whole day : while 

 others are up all night at their only 

 employment, canis." 



At length an order arrived for the 

 removal of Mr. Lindley, and the 

 remaining prisoners, to the city of 

 Bahia (or bt. Satvadore.) where a 

 solemn adjudication v.-astobe looked 

 to, npon our author's case, — here, 

 however, new calamities awaited 

 him and his wife. — On their arrival, 

 they were conducted to the fort de 

 Mar, in the centre of the bay of 

 Ail-Saints, and o])pObite the city. — 

 What followed is thus related. 



" His order was so precipitate, 

 that he hardly gave us time to get 

 our few trifles into the barge. 

 During the passage, lie told us th.^t 

 our situafion would now be lar more 

 tolerable, not only as we should en- 

 joy the fine air of such an open si- 

 tuation, but that Mrs. Lindley, be- 

 ing no longer a prisoner, would 

 have o])portMnities of going into the 

 city whenever she chose. This plea- 

 sing face of things raised our droop- 

 ing spirits ; we pasved the sea port 

 of the fort with alacrity, and walked 

 to the captain's house. ^\ e were a 

 little struck with the coldness with 

 which he received us, but inconceiv- 

 ably more so, when he shewed ns 

 the dungeon of the fort, and or- 

 dered our baggage to be brought 

 there. Seeing the small rooms ad- 

 joining his house occupied by of- 

 ficers, and others confined here, I 

 thought it was perhaps a momentary 

 arrangement, and I siifl' red the Ser- 

 jeant to fkpart under that idea ; but 

 our baggage was no sooner depo- 

 sited, than the captain ordered us 

 in. and a soldier awaited at the door 

 with an immenve key to lock it. 

 Surprised at these appearances, I 

 requested Mrs. Lindley might pass 

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