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Title: A sketcher's tour round the world
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Elwes, Robert Hullmandel & Walton
Subjects: Voyages around the world Voyages around the world
Publisher: London : Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, Successors to Henry Colburn
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
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impunity, and her captainnot much liking the job, said he had been paid to tow thebrig out, but there his business ended, and he was notgoing to fight; so the disappointed owner was obliged toreturn, and the slaver, now in charge of an officer andprize crew, continued her voyage to Sierra Leone where shewas condemned, broken up, and sold. A vessel is liable tobe taken as a slaver if she is fitted up for the trade, or evenif she has anything on board ready for fitting. Thus ifthere are planks on board to make a slave deck with, ormore hands than are necessary to work the vessel, storesof farinha, or extra tanks for water, the vessel is consideredto be prepared for the slave trade, and is condemned ac-cordingly. The Americans engaged in the nefarious traffic, adopteda very cunning artifice, which answered well for some time.A captain would navigate an empty vessel under Americancolours to the African coast, where a Brazilian captain,crew, and cargo, were ready for him, and he would then
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o S p^ 3 o W -H S 5 <; t! i—j 5 .3 o 5 H «a CK ^ § rt - rS K BRAZILIAN NEGROES. 25 sell his ship to the Brazilian, and take a berth back as apassenger. Arrived at Rio, he repurchased the vessel, andagain started for the Coast to pursue the same course, sothat, in all the voyages from Brazil, the ship was safe, andhalf the risk was avoided. Rio Janeiro is generally allowed to be the most beautifulplace in the world. I was often asked my opinion of it ascompared with Naples and Constantinople; but these com-parisons are very difficult to make, as one city excels in oneparticular, but fails in another. With respect to Naples,I think that there is one view of the town, from near Virgilstomb, which, for a picture, surpasses anything in Rio ; andin Constantinople, the city itself, with its numerous mosquesand graceful minarets, far exceeds in point of beauty thecity of Rio, which is flat, and has no fine buildings. But ifwe take the whole thing, the harbour, the city, the rockymounta

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