This place was the scene of a dreadful massacre about twenty years before.

The captains of these vessels, thinking that the natives asked too much for their slaves, held a consultation, how they should proceed; and agreed to fire upon the town unless their own terms were complied with.

On a certain evening they notified their determination to the traders; and told them, that, if they continued obstinate, they would put it into execution the next morning.

In this they kept their word.

They brought sixty-six guns to bear upon the town; and fired on it for three hours.