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usual time, and instructed them in the use of ar- 
tillery and small arms in the evening. The Bia- 
faras and Papels, as well as the Portuguese of Bis- 
sao, had always exhibited the most friendly dispo- 
sitions. The Biafaras solicited Mr Beaver to form 
a settlement at Ghinala, and also at Bulola, seventy 
miles up the Rio Grande ; and the king of the 
Papels had sent a message to the first colonial ves- 
sels who arrived at Bissao, to induce them to settle 
on his territories, engaging to protect them against 
the Portuguese, who wished to engross the trade 
of the island. In the meantime, the agents of the 
system of slavery were not inactive. Mr Beaver's 
dispatches were detained by the captain to whom 
they were committed ; the colony was represented 
as infected with the pestilence, and new colonists 
were deterred from engaging in the expedition. 
As no vessels arrived with supplies of stores, or 
additional colonists, the Association being entirely 
ignorant of the state of the colony ; and, as the co- 
lonists were menaced with a still more formidable 
attack of the Bissagoes, Mr Beaver was forced to 
yield to the repeated solicitations and remon* 
strances of the remaining colonists, and sailed to 
Sierra Leone, where he arrived, December 23d 
1793, and immediately returned to England. Thus, 
after the expenditure of L. 10,000, the coloniza- 
tion of Bulama terminated in the evacuation of the 
island, which, when the character of the colonists 
is considered, can scarcely be reckoned a subject 
