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load of timber, staves, hoops, and baskets, strung 

 up to the cross-trees ; tobacco, flour, household 

 furniture, ironmongery, crockery, old clothes, 

 salt fish, &c. &c. He was bartering these for 

 goat-skins and other produce of the island : he 

 had disposed of the chief part of them, and, as he 

 expressed it, was going " slick home" for a cargo 

 of Indian corn, which he calculated " would pay 

 considerable if the starvation progressed." He 

 sailed his schooner on temperance principles, 

 which, as his crew consisted of only a mate and 

 two boys, showed at once his good sense and 

 right feeling. 



Having received our water on board, we were 

 under weigh, in company with the Alburkah and 

 Columbine, on the evening of the 19th of August, 

 glad to leave a place where we had only witnessed 

 misery without being able to alleviate it. We 

 continued under steam for some hours, and then, 

 the wind being favourable, we disconnected the 

 engine from the paddles and made the best of the 

 way we could under canvass, the brig running 

 with us under her topsails with the yards on the 

 cap. On the 20th the wind fell, and from that 

 time until the 1st September we had a succes- 

 sion of calms, with a heavy swell from the S. W. 



