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The Western Coast of Africa; Journal of an Officer Under Captain Owen. Records of a Voyage in the Ship Dryad in 1830, 1831, and 1832

The Western Coast of Africa; Journal of an Officer Under Captain Owen. Records of a Voyage in the Ship Dryad in 1830, 1831, and 1832

Leonard, Peter

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ISBN10: 1154184706
ISBN13: 9781154184709
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.20 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1833. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. Bidding adieu to Anobona, we set sail, late in the evening of the 30th, and steered towards the island of St. Thomas, between which and the Isle de Uolle (an island little more than a mile in length, situated at the southern extremity of the former) we anchored, in the afternoon of the succeeding day. Although a single canoe, containing 1 wo miserable looking blacks, who must have risked their lives for the purpose, came off to us from Rolle Island, bringing some tropical fruits, dried fish, and sponges, for sale, there was such a tremendous surf, throughout the whole line of coast of both islands, that none of our boats could land. Close to our anchorage, the sea was thundering and breaking violently among the clefts and chasms of the rocky shore, from which the spray issued in thick white jetting columns, like the smoke of artillery, curling in the air, and dissipating in thin vapour. Our anchorage was directly under the equator. The wind was southerly, and the thermometer only seventy-nine degrees. There were three or four huts near us, on the principal island, and abundance of cocoa nut trees in their vicinity; but we could perceive no inhabitants. The outline of St. Thomas' Island is very irregular and broken, and resembles, in its impenetrable forest-covered surface, the Island of Fernando Po; and, in its romantic appearance, its numerous fantastic-shaped hills, and inaccessible peaks, the Island of Prince, but on a far larger and more stupendous scale. We could, however, only look at it at a distance; and finding our anchorage, as the swell increased, becoming hour L* ly more unsafe, we left it next day, and reached West Bay, . Prince's Island, on the 2d of June, the day following. After we had been here two or three days, Senora Ferra..

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