The wreck took the number that had perished on the journey to 61 people. Six corpses remained visible on board and three people initially deemed 'past recovery' and left behind by the salvage party were brought ashore alive the following morning.  
The coast was deserted and the survivors spent the next two days in the hot sun without food and warming themselves in the night by lighting fires and huddling in groups, which was how the Jamaican marine authorities found them, at 9 p.m. on Saturday 20 April, after having first learned of the wreck at 1 p.m. that afternoon. At 6 a.m. the next day, a sloop that had been under repair at Old Harbour Bay arrived with two lifeboats that took the survivors first to Old Harbour then to Port Royal and then a customs warehouse in Kingston. The captain and his crew were led away in chains, ${ }^{6}$ no doubt to be brought before an official inquiry and imprisoned.  
Soon after the events of the shipwreck became publicly known, the governor of the island, Constantine Henry Phipps, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave, visited the survivors at the warehouse with his wife Maria, Marchioness of Normanby. A politically liberal man in his mid-30s, Mulgrave had already outraged Jamaica's white society by attending a dance organized by coloured people. Jamaican society at the time was rigidly stratified along colour lines - whites on the highest rungs, mixed-race (coloured) on those lower down and blacks on the lowest, with class divisions within each category - but the overarching divide was between the free and the enslaved, the category 'slave' being indistinguishable  
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[^0]:    6 As recounted by Richard Berry in a letter to the Collector and Comptroller of H. M. Customs, Kingston, dated 21 April 1833, and in a report carried in the Kingston Cbronicle and City Advertiser, 24 April 1833. Jamaica National Library, Kingston.