A narrative of voyages and commercial enterprises . ermission. Con-sequently, while Mr. Shaler accompanied this of*ficer to the Governor, we lay off and on in the than aa hour had elapsed before his returnwith a permission to anchor, and to remain till a replycould be received from the Captain-General at Santi-ago, to our request for leave to supply our wants, forwhich a despatch was to be forwarded were surprised to find no less than four Americanvessels lying here, viz. the ship Hazard of Providence, ona voyage similar to our own, detained on suspicion of beingEnglish
A narrative of voyages and commercial enterprises . ermission. Con-sequently, while Mr. Shaler accompanied this of*ficer to the Governor, we lay off and on in the than aa hour had elapsed before his returnwith a permission to anchor, and to remain till a replycould be received from the Captain-General at Santi-ago, to our request for leave to supply our wants, forwhich a despatch was to be forwarded were surprised to find no less than four Americanvessels lying here, viz. the ship Hazard of Providence, ona voyage similar to our own, detained on suspicion of beingEnglish, from the circumstance of being armed. The shipMiantinomo and schooner Oneco of Norwich, Connecticut, each withvaluable cargoes of seal skins taken on the Island of Masafuera, bothdetained, and finally confiscated, on a charge of having suppliedEnglish privateers, then on the coast, with provisions which they hadobtained at Talcahuana; and the ship Tryal, of Nantucket, a whaler,also detained for alleged illicit trade. If we were surprised to meet. 164 SECOND VOYAGE. SO many of our countrymen here, we were equally mortified, and insome degree alarmed for our own safety, to find them all underseizure. Yet, while we violated no law, and required no other thanthe privileges secured to us by treaty, we could not believe that weshould be molested. On the third day after the Governors messenger had been des-patched a reply was received from the Captain-General, — the pur-port of which was, that our passage had been so good that we couldnot be in want of provisions, if we had provided such quantity inEurope as we ought to have done. But if it were otherwise, and ourwants were as urgent as represented, the mode by which we proposedpaying for them, by a bill on Paris, was inadmissible ; and, therefore,that it was his Excellencys order that we should leave the port atthe expiration of twenty-four hours after this notification. On remon-strating with the Governor, and pointing out to hi
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