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164 African Memoranda. ^1792^ four six-pounders at the foot of it; a cutter of 34 tons, and six Friday, swivels, fitted with close quarters ; the Perseverance which we Novem. • 23rd. have built of seven tons and two swivels ; the Hankey’s long boat, which I have purchased, rather more than half that size ; a pinnace which rows with eight oars, left me by Birchall; a six- oar’d yawl that we brought from England, and a two-oar’d dingy belonging to the cutter, together with about 200 stand of arms. Thus, On leaving England we were in number 275 persons. On the Calypso’s departure,.... 91- On the Hankey’s departure,... 28. In the evening I assembled the colonists, at least those who were capable of moving, and though not exactly fit for the task, as this is the first day, out of many, that 1 have been able to move myself, I endeavoured to cheer up their spirits, pointed out as well as I could, their precise situation, laid before them most of their difficulties, and the means by which they might be overcome. For the information of him who may succeed, and for the good of those who may survive me, I think it necessary to say something here of Peter Hayles, the only seaman I have in the cutter. Mr. Birkhead who commanded her, and is gone home in the Hankey, having in vain attempted to persuade me to abandon the colony, during my illness a few days ago, said that his con science would not permit him to leave me, without making me acquainted with the character of the only man that I had left in this vessel. He was he said a most notorious villain; that he had al ways great difficulty in keeping him in any thing like order ; that when at Sierra Leone he had quarrelled with his most intimate friend Johnson, one of the cutter’s sailors, who had died there, and