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African Memoranda. • 257 Windy, calm, cloudy, clear, rainy, dry, ever-changing wea- 1793. ther. In the evening my Biafara friends made their appearance Wednes. on the opposite shore. Sent the boat for them, which returned with Janjan, the king’s son, and nine others. Winds and weather variable. Same employment. Janjan says that the Portuguese are continually “ telling his father bad of meand he supposes that they “ tell me bad of him“ but his father pays no attention to what they say, and I must do the same: his father wishes I would build a house at his town, as till then he is obliged, though against his inclination, to trade with the people of Bissao, as a refusal to do so would bring on him war. He could not send me cattle when my boat was last at Ghinala, because, at that time, he was ill and bewitched, and his cattle were bewitched and died.” The Perseverance returned last night with ten grumetas. My Biafara friends left me this morning. Employed in taking up stumps, and paling. Began this day to dig a well in the centre of the square, when, if we find water, we shall have every neces sary of life, within the block-house, for at least a year to come. Clear weather. Same employment. Saturday, Read prayers to three of the colonists who were well enough Sunday, to attend. Sent the Perseverance to Bissao with grumetas. Sick, Hood, Hayles, Bennet, Williams, Dowlah, and Ash worth. Fine weather. Employed paling, and making the well in the Mon. 7, square. A boat from Bissao came for timber. Wedn.9. The Perseverance returned, and brought me three grumetas. Thu«. By her I learned that the Ocean, the Sierra Leone vessel at Bis sao, was to sail this evening, and not to pass this island as I had been taught to expect, but to sail back through the western chan- Ll Thursd. 3d. Friday, 4th.