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It is like discovering a world within the world. Nelson's defeat at Santa Cruz The Mantilla Arrival at Porto Grande Poverty of the inhabitants Portuguese Exiles at the Cape de Verds City of Porto Prayo Author's submersion Green Turtle Rainy Season Anchor at Cape Mesurado. July 1. Ashore at Santa Cruz. The population of the city is reckoned at six or eight thousand.
Paul's Sugar Manufactory Maumee's beautiful Grand-Daughter the Sleepy Disease the Mangrove-Tree. February 29. We are on our return to Liberia. The ship is destined to cruise along the whole coast, from Cape Mesurado to the river Gaboon, touching at all important and interesting points.
The same apathy to agriculture prevails in Liberia. For the last forty years large plantations have been laid out on the noble St. Paul River between Cape Mount and Mount Mesurado.
A clear day, and comfortably cool. Wind fair. Made land, and saw an English brig of war. Commander Oakes, of the Ferret, came on board. Made Cape Mount. August 1. At 12, meridian, anchored at Cape Mesurado, off the town of Monrovia. We find at anchor here the U. S. brig Porpoise, and a French barque, as well as a small schooner, bearing the Liberian flag.
Consequently the red glimmer, supposed to show at thirteen miles, is rarely visible beyond three. A dotting of white frame-houses and curls of blue smoke betray the capital. It lurks behind the narrow sand-bar which banks the shallow and useless Mesurado River, and few men land without an involuntary ablution in the salt water.
On the 4th, being in 6° 30', we set our course S.E. The 9th we changed our course E.S.E. The 14th, being in lat. 5° 30' and reckoning ourselves 36 leagues from the coast of Guinea, we set our course due E. The 19th, reckoning ourselves 17 leagues from Cape Mensurado, we set our course E. by N. the said cape being E.N.E. of us, and the river Sesto E. The 20th we fell in with Cape Mensurado or Mesurado, which bore S.E. 2 leagues distant.
Borne down by the weight of his spoil, the feathered gormandizer alighted on the water rested himself for a moment rose again, and re-alighted and in this manner, with many such intervals of repose, made his way to the shore. At 1 P.M., sailed for the Coast, in company with the Truxton. Anchored off Cape Mesurado. It is now fourteen months since our ship first visited Monrovia.
The negotiations were conducted in the presence of an excited crowd and with imminent danger; but Stockton had great tact and at length, for the equivalent of $300, he and Ayres purchased the mouth of the Mesurado River, Cape Montserado, and the land for some distance in the interior. Some of the colonists refused to leave, remained, and thus became British subjects.
These two men explored the coast and on December 11 arrived at Mesurado Bay. Through the jungle they made their way to a village and engaged in a palaver with King Peter and five of his associates.
But again for any little acts of kindness they expressed no kind of appreciation or gratitude. Physically they were men and women, but otherwise as far removed from the Anglo-Saxon as the oyster from the baboon, or the mole from the horse. On the fourteenth day from parting with the brig we made the palms on Cape Mesurado, the entrance to Monrovia Harbor.
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