Re: Statki niewolnicze we Flotach Swiata
: 2011-06-24, 19:12
Two Friends, of New Orleans, equipped slaver, with Spanish, Portuguese, and American flags. House Doc., 26 Cong. 2 sess. V. No. 115, pp. 120, 160-2, 305.
I am, &c.
James Stephen, Esq. &c. &c. &c. (signed) W. Fox Strangways.
My Lord, Sierra Leone, 31 January 1839.
We have the honour to transmit to your Lordship herewith our report of the case of the brig Dous Amigos, Fernando Joze Carreira, master, captured under the Portuguese flag, whilst lying in Lagos Roads, on the 16th of November last, by Her Majesty's brigantine Dolphin, Lieutenant Edward Holland commanding, and condemned in the British and Spanish Mixed Court of Justice, on the 28th instant, as a Spanish vessel engaged in the slave trade, and fully equipped for that purpose.
At the moment of capture the Dous Amigos was prepared for the immediate reception of a cargo of slaves; her slave provisions were on board; her water casks, containing 15,000 gallons, were all filled with fresh water; and a complete slave deck was laid fore and aft.
The history of this vessel during the last two years has in a great measure been discovered from her papers; she was formerly the American brig, Two Friends, and left Havana under that name, and under the command of the present captain, in March 1837, bound to Bahia; she arrived at Bahia on the 18th of April, and on the 17th of the following month obtained a Portuguese passport or register from the Portuguese consul-general resident in Brazil. Her name was then translated into that of Dous Amigos; from Bahia the brig cleared out for St. Miguel, one of the Azores, by way of the coast of Africa ; but Havana, not St. Miguel, was her real destination. One successful slaving voyage to Cuba was thus made under the present passport, and the Dous Amigos, cleared out from Havana on a second expedition, bound to Lagos, on the 5th of July 1838.
I am, &c.
James Stephen, Esq. &c. &c. &c. (signed) W. Fox Strangways.
My Lord, Sierra Leone, 31 January 1839.
We have the honour to transmit to your Lordship herewith our report of the case of the brig Dous Amigos, Fernando Joze Carreira, master, captured under the Portuguese flag, whilst lying in Lagos Roads, on the 16th of November last, by Her Majesty's brigantine Dolphin, Lieutenant Edward Holland commanding, and condemned in the British and Spanish Mixed Court of Justice, on the 28th instant, as a Spanish vessel engaged in the slave trade, and fully equipped for that purpose.
At the moment of capture the Dous Amigos was prepared for the immediate reception of a cargo of slaves; her slave provisions were on board; her water casks, containing 15,000 gallons, were all filled with fresh water; and a complete slave deck was laid fore and aft.
The history of this vessel during the last two years has in a great measure been discovered from her papers; she was formerly the American brig, Two Friends, and left Havana under that name, and under the command of the present captain, in March 1837, bound to Bahia; she arrived at Bahia on the 18th of April, and on the 17th of the following month obtained a Portuguese passport or register from the Portuguese consul-general resident in Brazil. Her name was then translated into that of Dous Amigos; from Bahia the brig cleared out for St. Miguel, one of the Azores, by way of the coast of Africa ; but Havana, not St. Miguel, was her real destination. One successful slaving voyage to Cuba was thus made under the present passport, and the Dous Amigos, cleared out from Havana on a second expedition, bound to Lagos, on the 5th of July 1838.
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