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The Daily Dispatch: December 17, 1860., [Electronic resource], Still another slaver seized — the largest cargo yet. (search)
ho are to be taken charge of by the United States Government agent. The slaves, notwithstanding their number, were put on board the Bonita in the space of 15 minutes. Having disposed of the prize the San Jacinto stood to the south, and met the Constellation, the officers of each ship conveying to one another the intelligence that "a haul had been made." The parties on board the slaver made a desperate attempt to break the San Jacinto's propeller, by throwing over-board furniture and other materials likely to impede her progress; the cabin had been made destitute of "fittings" to accomplish this treacherous design. Plenty of rice and all sorts of provisions were on board. The Bonita is a splendid brigantine of about 212 tuns burden. Her ownership had not transpired. She cleared from New York on the 16th of July with papers for St. Thomas and a market, and took 47 days to go to the coast; and steering direct from the last named port to Punto de Lonha, where she got the blacks.