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  <dc:title>Letter from [Samuel] Richardson, midshipman on H.M.S Maidstone, at Sierra Leone to W J Lockett</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Has prize containing 174 slaves.  The general and two aides de camps have died and the mortality rate is very high.  The slave trade is carried on mainly by the French but the navy cannot touch them, while the Portugese are allowed to trade south of the Equator</dc:description>
  <dc:date>30 Jun 1826</dc:date>
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