Henry Alfred Alford Nicholls diary
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Elmina. 12 June, 1891, indeed to stay - Hermes away and Stubyn was quite prudent to stop him. Sometimes were Col- elected as Stubyn came in the crew of the 'Wasp' as Special Constable, and sent them with the two police- men to collect the people's money seize all the boats that could be found unlicensed. Then is a good deal to be said on the side of the people. They get nothing from the Govt. People are ill and die on the island and no doctor come yet. There is no protection for life or property, brood keeps up for the job, and a Mulino said 'as a -- d - d - robbing'; and it was really awfully then I ascertained that the good people of Elmina did not assemble to draw us off as the printer would describe away on the days spent. We gave the people nothing, but added woe to their comfort on their happenings, and we took away the money they had hardly earned by carrying their little produce in their Canal boat to Bonduca, and Camiacum. His invite old Muljacket to lunch and he accepts with alacrity. He is a native of Tiltie, and on a boy of 15 he remembers the execution in Danetown of the (9?) prisoners of the Las Damas in 1834 (?) He told me that only the Doctor and the Cork men spread on they