Qualla: Îles de Los https://qualla.com/iles-de-los en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:09 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/e/9/w/j/iles-de-los-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Îles de Los https://qualla.com/iles-de-los Îles de Los: Introduction https://qualla.com/iles-de-los/ Photo credit Aboubacarkhoraa, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Portuguese who first charted them called them the Ilhas dos Ídolos - the islands of the idols - and over the centuries sailors mangled the name into a dozen forms: the Isles of Loss, the Edlesses, Las Idolas, and finally simply Los. Scattered just off Conakry, these green islands ringed by beaches look like nothing more than a pleasant weekend escape. Their shape, though, gives away a deeper story. Seen from above, the archipelago curves in a broken ring - the worn rim of something that once burned.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/9/w/j/iles-de-los-wp/e9wj-les-de-los-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Îles de Los: The Ring of an Ancient Volcano https://qualla.com/iles-de-los/ Photo credit United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, Public domain. That ring is no accident of the coastline. The Îles de Los are the eroded remains of a volcanic structure, a mass of molten rock that pushed up into the sediments of the West African shelf during the Cretaceous Period, as the South Atlantic was tearing open and Africa drifting aw...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/9/w/j/iles-de-los-wp/e9wj-les-de-los-the-ring-of-an-ancient-volcano.mp3 0:06 2 full Îles de Los: Factory Island https://qualla.com/iles-de-los/ Photo credit Natalie Barsacq, CC BY-SA 4.0. The islands have been inhabited for a very long time; a group of Baga people once spoke the Kalum dialect of the Baga language here. Their quiet was broken by commerce of the cruelest kind. In 1755 the English merchant Miles Barber, of the African Company of Liverpool, set up a t...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/9/w/j/iles-de-los-wp/e9wj-les-de-los-factory-island.mp3 0:06 3 full Îles de Los: The First Man Tried https://qualla.com/iles-de-los/ Photo credit Falilou224, CC BY-SA 4.0. By the early nineteenth century the law had begun, slowly, to turn. In 1812 a Dutch slave trader named Samuel Samo was seized by the British on these islands and carried to Freetown to face the Vice Admiralty Court. He has a grim distinction: he was the first person ever tried un...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/9/w/j/iles-de-los-wp/e9wj-les-de-los-the-first-man-tried.mp3 0:06 4 full Îles de Los: Traded Between Empires https://qualla.com/iles-de-los/ Photo credit Johannes Noppen, CC BY-SA 4.0. On 6 July 1818, Charles MacCarthy, Governor of Sierra Leone, signed a treaty with a local ruler named Mangé Demba, and the islands passed to the British Empire in exchange for an annual rent. MacCarthy promptly dispatched a surgeon of the West India Regiment to write up the islan...

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