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[Extract from the protest of the mate and crew of the American brig Venus.]
T h e state of the vessel is very bad ; for there is nothing that is sea worthy, and she leaks that bad that the pumps cannot be left more than ten minutes at a time, on the passage from Norfolk, in the best of weather. She has but one suit of sails ; and the least wind possible there is one or t h e other to be unbent and repaired, which, if she was on a lee shore and one of her sails to split, she would go on shore—for there is none to re place them, and we could not mend it in time to save the vessel. Also the fore yard is rottén and not fit for a man to go on, in any wind ; also the state of the standing rigging is as bad, and if a man says a word about any thing, the most awful threats come from him, saying we shall have more fault to find before we reach N e w York. J A M E S B U T L E R , Mate. WILLIAM WHEELWRIGHT, JOHN SOMERVILLE, Seamen. ROBERT GOWAN, JOHN ANDERSON, JAMES JACKSON,
G. P O R T - A U - P R I N C E , May
27,
1837
Captain Samuel R. Thomas, brig Venus, to James Butler, Mate, DR T o 3 months' board, 20 days' services, and 1 0 days' provision $117 00 Received in advance 30 00 Spanish At 6 0 p. c. premium Currency
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R e c e i v e d , as my proportion, $ 8 0 Haytian currency. JAMES BUTLER,
Mate.
Captain Samuel R. Thomas, brig Venus, to John Henderson, Seaman, D R . T o 5 months' services, at $ 1 5 $ 7 5 00 Received in advance, $ 1 4 14 00 Prison fees in Port-au-Prince $ 3 5 0 3 50 Spanish At 60 p . c. premium Currency
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R e c e i v e d , as my proportion, $ 5 7 H a y t i a n currency. JOHN
HENDERSON.