It was a bare fortnight after the coming of Del Rio when out of Las Palmas came word of fresh lawlessness. |
A large native tribe, the grebo, dwells at Cape Palmas in the midst of the colonists. |
Nelson left the Gulf of Palmas as soon as the wind served, which was on the 9th of March. |
Accordingly, on the 26th of March he anchored at Palmas, and began at once to clear the transports. |
When the litter was set down in the courtyard of Las Palmas it carried only a corpse! |
It forms the eastern point of the Gulf of Palmas, and has a long face of precipitous cliffs towards the sea. |