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PEDRO GIBERT AND OTHERS.

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share of the bread. The English
crew were not called up to take
their share of any money. Cap-
tain Gibert went on shore when
the Pands reached Nazareth, and
eame again in two months; he
wae sick on board five days;
when he recovered, he went on
shore again, and did not come
on board any more, Think eap-
tain went on board once after

Anastasio Sivera, Am 23 ears
of age. Shipped on board #
Panda on the Sth of February,
1833. [Witness identified Cap-
tain Gibert, the mate, and the
Test of the prisoners.) Went
first to ‘Cape Lopes in her;
thenea to Nazareth. They man
her ashore at Cape Lopez,
tending to burn her—upon mn whieh
cecasion they put me and three
other Portuguese on shore. The
vessel was got off afterwards and
went up the river; belonged to
her four months after that, dur-
ing all which time she lay in the
river. After she had been there
some little time, Captain Gibert
eame to Cape Lopez, and sent me
and others on board again, Cap-
tain and mate lived on shore, a
did part of the erew—only eight
or nine remained on Did
not see the cargo she brought
from Havana, but know she took
in slaves, because saw them.
When the English boats came ap
the river on the 4th of June,
1833, the carpenter told all to
get into the boat and go ashore,
ag he was about to set fire to the
sebooner. Carpenter was last
man who left the schooner. I
went to the barracoon where the
eaptain was; staid there one
day; the captain tumed me and
the ‘rest of the Portuguese off,
saying he could not support us.

that when I was on shore,
but am not certain, Panda had
nothing on board when taken but
provisions and water; she hed
no straw mata nor paim oil;
there were plenty of muskets and
pistols on board—algo rice, fa-
Tina, four or five barrels of ram,
and some bread; do not know
how many flags there were on
board.
November 16.

I went to a negro hut, and staid
there nine or ten days, The
schooner was taken out of the
river, but returned at the end of
twelve or fifteen days. There
was a Portuguese schooner lying
there; went on board and asked
captain to give me passage to
Prinee’s Island; captain said he
would. Captain Trotter was on
board at the time; took him pris-
oner, and ordered him to be put
on board the schooner Pande,
Captain Trotter came there
shortly afterwards himself, and
commenced firing on the town;
at the second gun, the echooner
blew up. We were then put on
board a small Portuguese sloop
that lay near, and from thence
on board the Curlew. Shipped
on board the Panda for the voy-
age out and back to Havana, and
was to receive one buadred and
twenty dollars. Don’t know
what the other Portuguese
shipped for, but one of them was
to have received the same as my-
self. The Panda was a two-top-
sail schooner, long and slim; she
had @ brass pivot gun abaft the
mainmast, and two iron carre-
nades; she had no swivel on
board; she had no regular head,
but a sort of a billet-head. It
was a long slim piece of wood,
turned up at the end.

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