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calf being indiscriminately killed with the bulls; nor do the 
natives make any use of their milk. The Portuguese, we 
also understood, had brought several horses, but none now 
remained. Near the pen was an 18lb. carronade, with 
which I had been saluted on first landing, and which I now 
learnt had belonged to an English vessel, burnt at the Tall 
Trees some years since by the slaves on board her, and that 
the rest of her guns (which had been fished up by the Sonio 
men), were now in the possession of the Fuka Sina, who 
offered to sell them. 
July 30. Prince Machow Candy, known to English 
traders as Fuka Candy, (he being Fuka of Market Point 
when the English traded here), paid me a visit; and, as he 
is considered as having great influence, I gave him a piece 
of chintz. He is a mulatto of French extraction, and said 
to have made a great fortune by trade, while he filled the 
office of Fuka of the Point. 
July 51. This day and Wednesday, I employed in taking 
a sketch of the reach of the river. 
August 1. This forenoon I was visited by Mr. Sherwood, 
the ostensible mate of the brig under Spanish colours, 
and who had been an old slave trader out of Liverpool 
in this river. He was accompanied by four Portuguese 
masters of trading vessels now at Cabenda, and part of those 
