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often very difficult to settle the questions of right 
and wrong between the rude natives of a country, 
and the colonists who are permitted to settle in 
their territories. The original planters of New 
England having discovered a hoard of Indian corn, 
belonging to the natives, carried it off for seed, in- 
tending, as they said, " to pay the Indians when 
"the soil paid them." The colonists of Bulama, 
however, can only be charged with want of caution, 
since the vessels which contained the goods for the 
purchase of the island, and traffic with the na- 
tives, had not yet arrived. Instructed by this pre- 
liminary error, Mr Dalrymple embarked his men, 
and sailed to Bissao, where he found the other ves- 
sels. From Bissao he dispatched a sloop, to ex- 
plain his intentions to the Canabacs, and bring 
back the women and children who had been taken 
at Bulama. The embassy was successful, and on 
the 29th of June 1792, the sovereignty of the 
island of Bulama was ceded to the king of Great 
Britain, Jbr ever by the kings of Canabac. The 
cession of the island of Areas, and of the adjacent 
land on the continent, was likewise obtained from 
the kings of Ghinala, on the 3d of August. Though 
the success of the expedition had, as yet, exceeded 
probability, the greater number of the colonists 
were miserably disappointed. Instead of finding 
mines of gold ready wrought, or sugar, coffee, cot- 
ton, and indigo, fit for manufacture, they had found 
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