Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

CHARLESTON, January 18.

The schooner Dart, belonging to Liverpool, left the coast of Africa on the 2d of April, bound to Barbadoes, and about 4 o'clock in the morning of the 16th of said month, in lat. 11. W. long. 34. N. was overset in a sudden squall of wind; had on board 143 slaves, Mr. Harrison, passenger (who perished in the cabin) and eleven of the crew.; fortunately the boat floated; the Captain on first seeing his situation leaped upon the booms, and floated with the boat; about eight o'clock he took in Mr. Dickinson, mate, James Robinson, Henry Morecroft, Peter M'Allister, T. Cheshire, T. Morris, Richard Whitneys, Edward Guile, James Matthews, Richard Cheshire, and a black boy, who all immediately left the wreck, with nothing to subsist on but four monkeys, and a small quantity of palm oil, for 19 days; they eat of the monkeys as fast as they died, and such was their melancholy situation, that when the boy died, they divided his remains, on which they made a cannibal meal: on the 8th of May those that were alive made land which was uninhabited; and now their difficulties were almost equal to their distress in the boat; here they had a large tract of unknown land to travel over, without any subsistence than what the trees and bushes afforded, wild beasts to encounter, and the few that breathed almost daily decreasing; at length, on the 24th of June (37 days after they left the boat) they arrived at Cayenne, where they were humanely treated by the inhabitants, and one of the crew (Henry Morecroft) arrived lately at Liverpool in a most debilitated state.