On the 14th of March a vessel seen from the mast-head at 3 P.M.,
immediately tacked and endeavoured to escape. By sunset she was
discernible from the deck, and a clear moon left little difficulty in
keeping her in sight all night. Every manœuvre imaginable was
tried in vain, proceeding on almost every point of the compass;
still, when daylight broke, the vessels were so close that, after
firing three shots at the slaver, she hove to, and the Brazilian brig
'Dois Amigos' became the 'Bonetta's' first prize, with a cargo of 408
negroes.
Bearing an important cipher despatch from Sierra Leone to Captain
Moneypenny, at Cape Mount, on the 16th May, the 'Bonetta' was
becalmed for an hour, about four miles from a brigantine. Having
delivered the despatch she was ordered to proceed to Sierra Leone.
This brigantine shipped her slaves at Gallinas, and was captured in
August by H.M.S. 'Sealark,' under the name of the 'San Francisco;'
she was returning for another cargo.