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The captain of the palm oil brig Elizabeth, now in the Calebar River, actually whitewashed his crew from head to foot, while they were sick with fever, and unable to protect themselves; his cook suffered so much in the operation, that the lime totally deprived him of the sight of one of his eyes, and rendered the other of little service to him.
One of the latter, named the Caledonia, a ship of five hundred tons burden, was the property of Sir John Tobin, of Liverpool, which, with the other, the brig Elizabeth were taking in a cargo of palm oil. The river Calebar is very serpentine, and there is scarcely any other tree but the mangrove to be seen on its banks.
In this part of the Gulf of Guinea, between Fernando Po and the Calebar River, the rainy season is stated to commence in the month of July, and to be at the worst in August and September, accompanied by tornadoes of the most terrific description. The rains continue during November, and cease in the month of December, but the coast is said to be seldom many days together without a tornado.
He followed the trail; passed from street to street and from plaza to plaza, and finally entering a house in the suburbs, laid his hand upon the begrimed and worn-out saddle which had once been his own montura de fiesta! In 1830, a prisoner, awaiting the death-penalty, effected his escape from jail. Calébar, with a detachment of soldiers, was put upon the scent.
There are no cleared portions of ground on the banks of the river, and their cultivation of the yam and other vegetables is at a distance in the woods. Since Lander's first return to Fernando Po from the Calebar river, he accompanied Mr. Becroft twice to Duke Town in the Portia.
Author arrives at Bristol Introduction to Quaker families there Objects of his inquiry Ill usage of seamen on board the ship Brothers Obtains a knowledge of several articles of African produce Dr. Camplia Dean Tucker Mr. Henry Sulgar Procures an authenticated account of the treacherous massacre at Calebar Ill usage of the seaman of the ship Alfred Painful feelings of the author on this occasion.
He who would learn more of Calébar and his brother-trailers, let him procure a copy of the little work that now lies before us, in the shape of a tattered duo-decimo, which has come to us across the Andes and around Cape Horn, from the most secluded corner of the Argentine Confederation.
This deficiency has been in some measure remedied by the construction of a government garden, from which some men of war have received supplies, but these are not sufficient to supply the wants of the colony, and recourse is had for them to the Calebar River. Palm wine at the colony, as well as on the coast, is the common and favourite drink of the natives.
If now and then he found himself at fault, he as often recovered the trail, until the bank of a water-course was reached, to which the flying criminal had taken. The trail was lost; the soldiers would have turned back; but Calébar had no such thought.
Becroft, the superintendent, invited Richard Lander to accompany him in the Portia, to the Calebar River, whither he was going to procure stock for the use of the colony. The place from which this is obtained, is called Ephraim Town, where it appears to be very plentiful.
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