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be seen from the vessel, it is altered but little in 
appearance since last we were here (August 1873). 
After obtaining a few fresh supplies, we left the 
same evening for St. Vincent, which was sighted the 
next morning, and later in the day anchored off Porto 
Gfrande. Here a week was spent, completing stores 
and filling up with coal. A busy shipping-trade 
appears to be carried on ; for numbers of mail 
steamers and traders make this a port of call for 
filling with coal, before shaping course to distant 
lands. The harbour is safe and convenient, but 
the scattered houses comprising the town, backed up 
with high volcanic rock, are dismal and uninteresting. 
