their homes in the Desert, driving the unfortunate Christians
before them. The latter, according to the interest of their
new masters, are sold again Or bartered to' others; often to,
Arabs of a different tribe, and are thus conveyed in various
directions across the Desert, suffering every degree of
hardship and severity, which the cruelty, caprice or self-
interest of their purchasers may dictate. D.
Note 3, p. 10.
At the very time that Adams was making this statement
relative to the Frenchman who had escaped from the
Canary Islands, Mr. John Barry, a merchant of Teneriffe,
accidentally entered the room: and upon being asked
whether he had ever heard of such a circumstance, he
stated that between four and five years ago, some French
prisoners did make their escape from Santa Cruz in a
boat belonging to Canary, and that it was afterwards
reported they had run their vessel on shore on the Coast of
Africa, and had been seized and carried into captivity by
the Moors.
It can hardly be doubted that the man of whom Adams
speaks, was one of them.
Note 4, p. 11.
I perfectly recollect that the fact of the Captain’s death,
was mentioned to me by others of the Charles’s crew who
were ransomed at Mogadore, as well as by Adams; but
I do not think that I was told he was murdered; only that
he died from disease, want of nourishment, and severe
treatment. D.
Note 5, p. IS.
Adams should have said Agadeer Doma. This proposition
made by the mate to the Arabs, to convey the Christians
to Senegal, was related to me, as well by Adams, as by
others of the. crew who were ransomed. The Arabs, I
was told, had frequent consultations together; apparently
to determine how they should dispose of their prisoners:
after which, as if to raise the spirits of the sailors, they
would point with their fingers to the north, or north-northeast
; saying many words, which they (the sailors) did not
understand, and frequently repeating the words Suerra
and Sultan. D.
Note 6, p. 13.
In the spring of 1811, at which time, and until the
breaking out of the war between Great Britain and the
United States, I held the commission of Agent for the
American Consulate at Mogadore, (under James Simpson
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