description Amazon cargo

Bill.

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> Bill, I have written Amazon cargo if its suitable to put on the website
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> Series 3. Episode 4. AMAZON CARGO. By Alun Richards.
> Description by Viv Dodd.
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> Jose Braghanza and Elizabeth have become very close in the 3 weeks spent
> together in Liverpool but Jose is to leave for Brazil on the Charlotte
> Rhodes with captain Baines where his Portuguese language could be of use
> to James' business ventures. James is sailing on the Osiris with a cargo
> of coal having refused Leonora's request to sail with him. James asks
> Caroline to accompany him but she refuses and sails on the Tarpin with her
> uncle, Jack Frazer. Both men are eager to develop the coal trade with the
> Brazillian railways.
> Fogarty is already on the Amazon with the steam ship Scot's Lass but is
> having trouble with the local officials who prevaricate and slow down his
> passage upriver with his cargo of coal. Baines arrives and meets the same
> reception so he sends Jose after Fogarty in a canoe, accompanied by a
> native. To ensure Jose's return Baines holds another native captive until
> the safe return of the young Portuguese.
> Fogarty runs aground and soon attracts the attention of the local
> Amerindians who unsettle the crew with their antics.
> When James reaches the Charlotte Rhodes, he finds Caroline aboard and she
> is frightened by the appearance of the captive native, attracted by beads
> and baubles in the cabin, as it brings back the horrific events
> surrounding her husband's death. James frightens off the native, who then
> escapes overboard, as he reassures Caroline.
> The next morning James goes to the Tarpin to discuss business with Jack
> Fraser. Fraser asks for the use of the Charlotte Rhodes to off load his
> cargo of coal before it and the ship are lost. James agrees to save
> Fraser's coal in return for regaining his steam ship which is really the
> Anne Onedin that Albert Frazer designed. While leaving Frazer to think it
> over James goes to offer his good wishes to the still shocked Caroline but
> she is in no mood for his sympathy and accuses him of being thoughtless
> and uncaring and goads him about the way he treated his dead wife Anne. A
> loud argument develops and she slaps James' face. On returning to Frazer
> for an answer to his offer, James is told that the steam ship is not
> solely Jack Frazer's now because he had to raise capital for the
> Brazillian venture by selling shares in the Wirral steamship company.
> Caroline now enters and comments to her father, but intentionally in
> James' presence, that she believes that the authorities from Manaus will
> not allow the coal trade to develop with another port (is she sorry for
> the way she treated James?) So James knows that he needs to cut his losses
> and return to Liverpool. He agrees to offload the coal from the Scots Lass
> for 50% of its value.
> When he returns to Baines on the Charlotte Rhodes, a canoe with the
> slaughtered Jose in it is found.
> On his return to Liverpool, Elizabeth is distraught at the news and James
> is told that senor Braghanza, who gave James his first start in trade, no
> longer wants to deal with the Onedin Line. James appears philosophical
> about it and leaves Leonora to comfort his sister.
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> Website about the Onedin Line
> http://www.sound-research.co.uk/onedin_line.htm Yahoo! Groups Links
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