316 Earthquake in. the Island of Teneriffe. 
of regaining the river, wishing to take along with them the 
wounded person; who refused their offer, saying that he 
must die before long, and was as well in the vessel as else- 
where. 
Soon after sunrise she was surrounded by an immense 
number of Indians in canoes, come for the express purpose 
of unloading her, but who, from the warm reception they 
met with the day before, did not seem to vie with each 
other in boarding. 
The wounded man showed himself over the railing, making 
signs that he was alone, and wanted their assistance; on 
which some embarked ; who finding what he said was true, 
spoke to their people, who were not any longer slow in get- 
ting on board, so that in a few seconds the deck was con- 
siderably thronged, and they proceeded to undo the hatches 
without further ceremony. 
No sooner were they completely engaged in thus finish- 
ing this most diabolical of actions, than the ouly survivor 
‘of the crew descended into the cabin, and set fire to the 
magazine containing nearly nine thousand pounds of gun- 
powder, which in an instant blew the vessel and every one 
on board to atoms. 
The nation acknowledge their having lost nearly one 
hundred warriors, besides a vast number wounded by the 
explosion, who were in canoes round the ship. Itis im- 
possible to tell who the person was that so completely 
avenged himself: but there cannot exist a single doubt that 
the act will teach these villains better manners, and will 
eventually be of immense benefit to the coasting trade. 
Tbe four men who set off in the long boat were, two or 
three days after, driven ashore in a gale and massacred, 
Saturday, the 18th of September, at half-past 11 o’clock 
A.M. an earthquake was felt throughout the island of Te- 
neriffe. It lasted three quarters of a minute. No very 
great damage was done.’: The houses perceptibly waved, 
many walls were cracked, buildings twisted, and parts of 
cielings broken in. Two slight shocks were felt, after on 
the same day ;—not any the foilowing ; but two very slight 
the next. It evidently went in the direction from the Peak. 
No volcano was discovered within five days in consequence 
of it. Chaldon, a small village of Grand Canary, about 
twelve leagues from Palermo, the capital, was destroyed ; the 
inhabitants escaped, about seven or eight hundred of them. 
At Lagona, the capital of Teneriffe, a steeple of the cathedral 
fell; also one at Polma, in Grand Canary—two officiating 
priests 
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