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approach JALLICA--Notice to
SUPHIANA--A halt for refreshment and ablutions--Ali-Ninpha's early
home here--A great man in SOOLIMANA--Sound of the war-drum at a
distance--Our welcome--Entrance to the town--My party, with the
Fullah, is barred out--We are rescued--Grand ceremonial procession

and reception, lasting two hours--I am, at last, presented to
Suphiana--My entertainment in Jallica--A concert--Musical
instruments--MADOO, the ayah--I reward her dancing and singing 162
CHAP. XXIII.--Our caravan proceeds towards Timbo--Met and
welcomed in advance, on a lofty table land, by
Ahmah-de-Bellah--Psalm of joy song by the Fullahs for our safety--We
reach TIMBO before day--A house has been specially built and
furnished for me--Minute care for my taste and
comforts--Ahmah-de-Bellah a trump--A fancy dressing-gown and
ruffled shirt--I bathe, dress, and am presented to the ALI-MAMI--His
inquisitive but cordial reception and recommendation--Portrait of a
Fullah king--A breakfast with his wife--My formal reception by the
Chiefs of Timbo and SULIMANI-ALI--The ceremonial--Ahmah's
speech as to my purposes--Promise of hospitality--My gifts--I design
purchasing slaves--scrutiny of the
presents--Cantharides--ABDULMOMEN-ALI, a prince and
book-man--His edifying discourse on Islamism--My submission 167
CHAP. XXIV.--Site of Timbo and the surrounding country--A ride
with the princes--A modest custom of the Fullahs in passing
streams--Visit to villages--The inhabitants fly, fearing we are on a slave
scout--Appearance of the cultivated lands, gardens, near Findo and
Furo--Every body shuns me--A walk through Timbo--A secret
expedition--I watch the girls and matrons as they go to the stream to
draw water--Their figures, limbs, dress--A splendid headdress--The
people of Timbo, their character, occupation, industry, reading--I
announce my approaching departure--Slave forays to supply me--A
capture of forty-five by Sulimani-Ali--The personal dread of me
increases--Abdulmomen and Ahmah-de-Bellah continue their slave
hunts by day, and their pious discourses on Islamism by night--I
depart--The farewell gifts--two pretty damsels 176
CHAP. XXV.--My home journey--We reach home with a caravan near
a thousand strong--Kambia in order--Mami-de-Yong and my
clerk--The story and fate of the Ali-Mami's daughter BEELJIE 183
CHAP. XXVI.--Arrival of a French slaver, LA PEROUSE, Captain

Brulôt--Ormond and I breakfast on board--Its sequel--We are made
prisoners and put in irons--Short mode of collecting an old debt on the
coast of Africa--The Frenchman gets possession of our slaves--Arrival
of a Spanish slaver 190
CHAP. XXVII.--Ormond communicates with the Spaniard, and
arranges for our rescue--LA ESPERANZA--Brulôt gives in--How we
fine him two hundred and fifty doubloons for the expense of his suit,
and teach him the danger of playing tricks upon African factors 196
CHAP. XXVIII.--CAPT. ESCUDERO of the Esperanza dies--I resolve
to take his place in command and visit Cuba--Arrival of a Danish
slaver--Quarrel and battle between the crews of my Spaniard and the
Dane--The Dane attempts to punish me through the duplicity of
Ormond--I bribe a servant and discover the trick--My conversation with
Ormond--We agree to circumvent the enemy--How I get a cargo
without cash 200
CHAP. XXIX.--Off to sea--A calm--A British man-of-war--Boat
attack--Reinforcement--A battle--A catastrophe--A prisoner 206
CHAP. XXX.--I am sent on board the corvette--My reception--A
dangerous predicament--The Captain and surgeon make me
comfortable for the night--Extraordinary conveniences for escape, of
which I take the liberty to avail myself 214
CHAP. XXXI.--I drift away in a boat with my servant--Our adventures
till we land in the ISLES DE LOSS--My illness and recovery--I return
to the Rio Pongo--I am received on board a French slaver--Invitation to
dinner--Monkey soup and its consequences 218
CHAP. XXXII.--My greeting in KAMBIA--The FELIZ from
Matanzas--Negotiations for her cargo--Ormond attempts to poison
me--Ormond's suicide--His burial according to African customs 222
CHAP. XXXIII.--A visit to the MATACAN river in quest of
slaves--My reception by the king--His appearance--Scramble for my
gifts--How slaves are sometimes trapped on a hasty hunt--I visit the

MATACAN WIZARD; his cave, leopard, blind boy--Deceptions and
jugglery--Fetiches--A scale of African intellect 227
CHAP. XXXIV.--What became of the Esperanza's officers and
crew--The destruction of my factory at Kambia by fire--I lose all but
my slaves--the incendiary detected--Who instigated the
deed--Ormond's relatives--DEATH OF ESTHER--I go to sea in a
schooner from Sierra Leone--How I acquire a cargo of slaves in the Rio
Nunez without money 233
CHAP. XXXV.--I escape capture--Symptoms of mutiny and detection
of the plot--How we put it down 240
CHAP. XXXVI.--A "white squall"--I land my cargo near St. Jago de
Cuba--Trip to Havana on horseback--My consignees and their prompt
arrangements--success of my voyage--Interference of the French
Consul--I am nearly arrested--How things were managed, of old, in
Cuba 244
CHAP. XXXVII.--A long holiday--I am wrecked on a key--My rescue
by salvors--New Providence--I ship on the SAN PABLO, from St.
Thomas's, as sailing master--Her captain and his
arrangements--Encounter a transport--Benefit of the
small-pox--Mozambique Channel--Take cargo near
QUILLIMANE--How we managed to get slaves--Illness of our
captain--The small-pox breaks out on our brig--Its fatality 248
CHAP. XXXVIII.--Our captain longs for calomel, and how I get it
from a Scotchman--Our captain's last will and testament--We are
chased by a British cruiser--How we out-manoevred and crippled
her--Death of our