Volume I Part 2 (2/2)

Hardly anyone can visit Plyular beauty of the surrounding scenery; nor shall I easily forget the ret hichit a long, long farewell

The sea had sunk to sleep, and not a single breath disturbed its glassy surface: the silent waters--and yet how eloquently that silence spoke to the heart--glided swiftly past; into the still air rose the unbroken colu vistas of far-off trees, which art and nature had cocu from the soft luxury of the park, to the rude freedom of the wild ainst a shattered rock, filled with all those nas which such an hour was so well fitted to call forth, I felt notwithstanding all the temptations of promised adventure, the full bitterness of the price we pay for its excite of the 21st of June, we received the racious Sovereign, King William the Fourth To all classes of his subjects his overnment has endeared his memory; and none however they reat political revolution which will render the nan of the Fourth William, no less remarkable than that of the Third, will refuse the tribute of their sincerest respect for qualities that adorned the sovereign while they exalted the man By the naval service, in which he had spent the early part of his life, his naht of its interests; and war after he had been called by Providence to the Throne of his Fathers

We bore the first intelligence of his fate, and the account of the accession of our present racious Queen, to every port at which we touched up to the period of our reaching Swan River

CHAPTER 12 PLYMOUTH TO BAHIA

Sail froht Stones

Peak of Tenerife

Approach to Santa Cruz

La Cueva de Los Guanches

Trade with Mogadore

Intercourse between Mogadore and Moiven up

Sail from Tenerife

Search for rocks near the equator

Arrival at San Salvador

Appearance of Bahia

State of the Country

Slave Trade

And results of Slavery

Extension of the Slave Trade on the eastern coast of Africa

Moral condition of the Negroes

Middy's Grave

Departure fro of the 5th July saw us running out of Plyht northerly wind, and hazy weather: soon after ere outside we spoke HMS Princess Charlotte, bearing the flag of Admiral Sir R

Stopford, and as she was bound down channel we kept together for the next three days: she had old shi+pmates on board, and was not the less an object of interest on that account Nothing worthy of particular notice occurred during the run to Santa Cruz in Tenerife, which wein obedience to our instructions passed over the presuh almost needless testined theut of Gibraltar we re us into it: this I have before noticed in outward voyages: in the hoenerally too far to the ard to feel its effects A sland on the 20th, andletters by her I learnt from the master of her that a timber shi+p had been recently picked up near the island, having been disale off the banks of Newfoundland; she was 105 days drifting here

PEAK OF TENERIFE

We were not so fortunate on this occasion as to obtain a distant sea view of the far-fareater interest when so beheld Rising at a distance of soues in dily boundless waves that guard its base, it rests at first upon the blue outline of the horizon like a conically shaped cloud: hour after hour as you approach the island it seeth its broad reflection darkens the surrounding waters I can i better calculated than an appearance of this kind to satisfy a beholder of the spherical figure of the earth, and it would seeators should have failed to find conviction in the unvarying testimonies of their own experience, which an approach to every shore afforded

In approaching the anchorage of Santa Cruz, vessels should close with the shore, and get into soundings before--as is the general custo abreast of the tohere from the steepness of the bank, and its proxied to anchor suddenly, a practice never desirable, and to vessels short handed, always inconvenient: besides cal, which would prevent a vessel reaching the anchorage at all

LA CUEVA DE LOS GUANCHES

Lieutenant Grey wasthe short period of our stay at the island, as an exa ill at once satisfy the reader: he explored a cave three miles to the north-east of Santa Cruz, known by tradition as La Cueva de los Guanches, and reputed to be a burying-place of the aboriginal inhabitants of the island: it was full of bones, and froht away, and also from his description of all that he exaed to a small-limbed race of men

Besides the wine trade, a considerable traffic is carried on with the Moors upon the opposite coast, who exchange gums and sometimes ivory for cotton and calico prints, and occasionally tobacco

TRADE WITH MOGADORE