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LevelItem
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)CMS/B/OMS/C A1 E4/2
TitleLetter from Wenzel to Pratt: 14 March 1814: Canoffee
Extent1 doc.
Date1814
DescriptionHe gives an account of the disturbances following the man-of-war's attack on the Rio Pongas 'slave factories', for which the missionaries were blamed and were endangered until Fernandez declared his protection. He asks Pratt for guards and for letters to the hostile local chiefs.

[Slave factories were places where enslaved people were held, bought and sold]
Access StatusOpen
Physical DescriptionE4: The numbers are archivist's numbers throughout, there being no original numbers.

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