| Description | Gives account of the voyage of the brig 'Charles' and its shipwreck on the Tonquet Rocks (20 miles south of the Gambia River) on 5 Jan 1813. Butscher sailed to Goree in a native vessel to obtain help in salvaging the 'Charles' ' cargo on 12 Jan, and returned to the wreck on the brig 'Neptune' on 18 Jan to discover natives looting the cargo, having killed her captain, Dixon Graham, and a passenger on 14 Jan. The crew and remaining passengers had escaped to Goree in native craft. He describes the reception of the survivors by Commandant Chisholm at Goree and the auctioning of the salvaged goods. The missionaries drew bills on CMS for buying in the most useful of the goods, which bills were kindly endorsed by Chisholm on the advice of Lt. Col. Sir Charles McCarthy, Governor of Senegal, to the sum of £500. One of the recruits, Mrs. Meyer, died of fever at Goree and was buried the 9 Feb 1813.
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30 Jan 1813: Goree, Butscher to Chisholm [copy]
1 Feb 1813: Goree, Butscher to McCarthy [copy]
6 Feb 1813: Goree, Butscher to Maxwell [copy] asking for passage to Rio Pongas
6 Feb 1813: Goree, McCarthy to Butscher [copy] |