Silas Duncan

“ I found a Schooner lying in Berkeley Sound (East Falklands) intended there is no doubt to have been fitted out to suppress our fisheries in the Southern Ocean. - She had been sent from the U. States for Sale but the purchase not having been completed. ”

“ The guns have been rendered useless - for any hostile purposes.-
I also found a small Schooner on the coast of East Falkland, navigated by a part of the Crew of the American Schooner Belville, wreck'd on the coast of Patagonia. - These men had built this Small Vessel or Shallop of 20 or 30 Tons after the loss of their vessel and were seized and made prisoners by Vernet and his associates and compelled to enter into their Service. ”

“ These individuals some of whom have families, come from Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, also, and are principally Germans; they appear to be industrious and well disposed persons.-
I have landed a part of them at Monte Video and intend sending the remainder to Buenos Ayres by the first Conveyance.-
I have now on board as prisoners seven individuals who are charged with illegally capturing and plundering the Schooner Harriet, as will appear by the affidavits of Captain G.R. Davison late master of the Harriet - Marked No.3. ”