[84] Captain Johnson’s report to the Governor of New South Wales. Parl. Papers, 1835. No. 583, p. 10.
[85] Everything connected with this trade is astonishing. Queen Elizabeth eagerly embarked in it in 1563, and sent the notorious John Hawkins, knighted by her for this and similar deeds, out to Sierra Leone for a human cargo, with four vessels, three of which, as if it were the most pious of expeditions, bore the names of Jesus! Solomon! and John the Baptist!—See Hakluyt’s Voyages.
[86] This excellent man was a martyr to his advocacy of the claims of the Caffres. Powerful appeals on behalf of his widow, left in painful circumstances, have been made by Mr. Leitch Ritchie, in his “Life of Pringle,” and by Mr. Bannister, in his “Colonization and the Coloured Tribes,” which, if they are not effective, will reflect but little credit upon the government, or the philanthropic public.
[87] See a Lecture on this settlement, with letters from the settlers, by Henry Watson, of Chichester.
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