. The New England magazine. the conflicting steering andthat the Amistad at last camewithin sight and legal cognizance ofthe northeastern shores of the UnitedStates. During August there wereominous reports of a long, low, blackschooner, manned by blacks, thatwas drifting aimlessly near the United States steamship Fultonand some revenue cutters were sentout for her, and perhaps a little appre- load of blacks landing on North Neckand, with carts and horses borrowedfrom a farmer, busily employed in get-ting water, they approached the men;and by the aid of signs and the fewEnglish words
. The New England magazine. the conflicting steering andthat the Amistad at last camewithin sight and legal cognizance ofthe northeastern shores of the UnitedStates. During August there wereominous reports of a long, low, blackschooner, manned by blacks, thatwas drifting aimlessly near the United States steamship Fultonand some revenue cutters were sentout for her, and perhaps a little appre- load of blacks landing on North Neckand, with carts and horses borrowedfrom a farmer, busily employed in get-ting water, they approached the men;and by the aid of signs and the fewEnglish words which Banna andCinque had picked up, Green made abargain to take the Amistad back Leone. But at that juncture,the United States coast survey brigWashington appeared on the scene;Ruiz and Montez, seeing men of Eu-ropean race, wildly gesticulated forhelp, and when near enough to beheard demanded rescue and protec-tion ; and Captain Green admittedafterwards that, on seeing the Wash-ington near, he had decoyed the ne-. From an old print in possession of Yale University. THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN FERRER. hension was aroused by these rumors ;but it was lost in the excitementcaused by the news that the mys-terious vessel had reached land, hadbeen captured and, with its duskycrew, was in the custody of govern-ment officials. Here the story of theAmistad becomes a part of our na-tional history. After touching at various pointsalong the coast, for water and pro-visions, the blacks had landed in smallboats on Long Island, leaving theirvessel ofr Culloden Point, near Mon-tauk Point, a place which was destinedto have another painful significance inthe story of Spain in the WesternHemisphere. This was on Sunday,August 25, 1839. Pelatiah Fordhamand Captain Harry Green, the latterof Sag Harbor, were out gunning atthat time; and when they saw a boats groes and persuaded them to lingeruntil it was too late for them to escapefrom their new captors. Pitifully the poor wretches cried,Sierra Le
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