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of their connection with this settlement. The g-overnor having 
ordered two pieces of cannon to be pointed towards their 
villages, the Papels forbade their wives to carry any thing to 
the market of Bissao, so that the settlement was soon in a 
state of famine : the people were reduced to the necessity of 
eating all the cassada which grew in the gardens of the inha- 
bitants. At last, a council assembled at the governor's house, 
and the affair appeared of so much consequence, that all the 
Portuguese attended. The governor thought proper to make 
the first advances. His wife (who was a Negress) was sent to 
the Papels ; the conferences which she held with king Joseph 
{almost all these people have assumed christian names) were 
completely successful, and they agreed to an interview for 
the purpose of concluding peace. * 
In the morning of the following day, some muskets were 
fired to announce this happy event, and at noon the great 
monarch of the Papels made his entry into Bissao. A Papel, 
representing his own nation, and a Negro sailor, representing 
the Portuguese, treated the king with the exhibition of a 
sham fight; the Papel, with his long sabre, fought against 
the Portuguese, who was armed in the same manner, but the 
latter had behind him fifty Negroes, who fired their muskets 
at the Papel ; the victory was not long undecided ; the Papel 
asked for quarter. King Joseph, however, continued his 
triumphant march ; never did a Negro more strongly resemble 
an ourang-outang : he wore a red coat, and short breeches of 
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