CHAPTER 1. Departure-Mother Carey's Chickens-The Gulf stream-Rapid Progress- The French Admiral's Cook-Nautical Musicians-The Sick Man-The Burial at Sea-Arrival at the Canaries-Santa Cruz-Love and Crime-Island of Grand Canary-Troglodytes near Las Palmas. June 5, 1843.-TowED by the steamer Hercules, we go down the harbor of New York, at 7 o'clock A. M. It is the fourth time the ship has moved, since she was launched from the Na~y Yard at Portsmouth. Her first experience of the ocean was a rough one; she was caught in a wintry gale from the north.east, dis. masted, and towed back into Portsmouth harbor, within three days after her departure. The second move brought-us to New York; the third, from the NavyYar~ into the North river; and the fourth will probably bring us to an anchorage off Sandy Hook. After a hard winter of four months, in New Hampshire, we go to broil on the coast of Africa, with ice eno.l.gh in our blood to keep us comfortably cool for six months at
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CHAPTER I; Departure-Mother Carey's Chickens-The Gulf Stream-Rapid Progress-; The French Admiral's Cook-Nautical Musicians-The sick; Man-The Burial at Sea-Arrival at the Canaries-Santa CruzLove; and Crime-Island of Grand Canary-Troglodytes near Las; Page; Palmas 1; CHAPTER II; 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 Praya-Author's Submersion-Green Turtle 8; -Rainy Season-Anchor at Cape Mesurado; CHAPTER III; Visit of Governor Roberts, &c-Arrival at Cape Palmas-Americrn; Missionaries-Prosperity of the Catholic Mission-King Freeman,; and his Royal Robe-Customs of the Kroo-People-Condition of; Native Women 14; CHAPTER IV; Return to Monrovia-Sail for Porto Praya-The Union Hotel-Reminiscences; of Famine at the Cape de Verds-Frolics of Whalemen; -Visit to the Island of Antonio-A Dance-Fertility of the Island; -A Yankee Cl
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CHAPTER I; Departure-Mother Carey's Chickens-The Gulf Stream-Rapid Progress-; The French Admiral's Cook-Nautical Musicians-The sick; Man-The Burial at Sea-Arrival at the Canaries-Santa CruzLove; and Crime-Island of Grand Canary-Troglodytes near Las; Page; Palmas 1; CHAPTER II; 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 Praya-Author's Submersion-Green Turtle 8; -Rainy Season-Anchor at Cape Mesurado; CHAPTER III; Visit of Governor Roberts, &c-Arrival at Cape Palmas-Americrn; Missionaries-Prosperity of the Catholic Mission-King Freeman,; and his Royal Robe-Customs of the Kroo-People-Condition of; Native Women 14; CHAPTER IV; Return to Monrovia-Sail for Porto Praya-The Union Hotel-Reminiscences; of Famine at the Cape de Verds-Frolics of Whalemen; -Visit to the Island of Antonio-A Dance-Fertility of the Island; -A Yankee Cl
