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Updated: May 11, 2025
If Lady Holland had not died just as she did, I believe that I should have had him and Lady Mary here for some days, which I should have liked very well. I have got a prize in Barbot's Lottery, as it may be Conty has told you. I left a man in London, when I came away, with a commission to see that justice was done me, and to send my pye, if I should have one, into Kent.
And when James Barbot's supercargo begins to examine his negroes like cattle he is begged, for decency's sake, to do it in a private place, "which shows these blacks are very modest." It rather proved the whites to be the reverse. At 7.20 A.M. on September 11, the "moleques" seized our luggage, and we suddenly found ourselves on the path.
In Barbot's time there were only thirty or forty inhabitants, who held the north- eastern point about a league from the wooding and watering places.
The adventurers, it is said, carried on a good trade till 1430-90, when the civil wars distracting France left her without stomach for distant adventure; and in 1452 Portugal walked over the course. Also 'Iles de l'Afrique, in the Univers. Barbot's details are circumstantial, but they have not been confirmed by contemporary evidence or by local tradition.
Twenty miles up stream the high-water mark becomes strongly marked, and further on, as will be seen, it shows even better. If Barbot's map have any claim to correctness, the southern shore has changed greatly since A.D. 1700. A straight line from Cape Padrao to Chapel Point, now Shark Point, was more than double the breadth of the embouchure.
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