George Hamilton Perkins Commodore Usn His Life And Letters
George Hamilton Perkins Commodore Usn His Life And Letters
Carroll Storrs Alden
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8o GEORGE HAMILTON PERKINS have great hopes that we shall capture one or two prizes. That will be some compensation for being on this station. What a happy time I had at home those last three months! I am constantly recalling it and wishing those days would come back again. November 29, 1859. The captain and I took breakfast a few mornings ago with King Te, a celebrated old negro on this part of the coast. The breakfast was served up in great style, for he is rich, having made a great deal of m...oney in the slave-trade. The occasion was thor oughly novel, but I found it difficult to swallow some of the food. Speaking of one feast reminds me of another. I for got to tell you about the way we kept Thanksgiving. The commodore fixed it for the fleet on November 24. On that day we were off Lagos, a noted slave- station. It was very hot, and every one of our sur roundings was as different from New England as was possible. We had a big dinner, though, and did our best to celebrate. The king of the Dahomeys, which is a warlike tribe on the coast, supplies most of the slave traders by selling them his prisoners of war.
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