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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 Cand}^ 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 31. This day and AVednesday, 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 



