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Benjamin Field and Drones I protest againt the capture and detentim of the said Viful and cargo by the Spanish Gevenment,

all ento, losse and expenses therely incured.)

and aba

In

for all

Wo

much as that

the first couch day of Augent lart.

of-Argint the repel being in won't

J. B.

provisions

to

go

9.

of

B. Pield volunteered

to the port of Jules in

The

search thereof. I left "Maria Laise"" about fifty

Porig

sixty miles from that island

and proceeded in

in my

boat

accompromised by Mr. Angan

an

interpreter

and....

-fire bout men,

m

approaching the shore we were chased by two Gumbrat and it being

lo

dark that we

ould not see their natio

nationality.

we amsidered that it warld

be safer to get

to let them eatch

Therefore proceeded

shore than

мо

ند

way,

we had not heard that the

port

were at

A

blockaded), and

loss to undurt and

the proceedings till we arrived in shore, when the Natives

explained it to us. In the

meam

time the

was mat

Brig "Maria Lavise

makking her way towards

the island.

near which she