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captain--Cargo landed and the San Pablo burnt 255
CHAP. XXXIX.--My returns from the voyage $12,000, and how I
apply them--A custom-house encounter which loses me LA
CONCHITA and my money--I get command of a slaver for
AYUDAH--LA ESTRELLA--I consign her to the notorious DA
SOUZA or CHA-CHA--His history and mode of life in Africa--His
gambling houses and women--I keep aloof from his temptations, and

contrive to get my cargo in two months 260
CHAP. XL.--All Africans believe in divinities or powers of various
degree, except the Bagers--Iguanas worshipped in Ayudah--Invitation
to witness the HUMAN SACRIFICES at the court of
DAHOMEY--How they travel to ABOMEY--The King, his court,
amazons, style of life, and brutal festivities--Superstitious rights at
LAGOS--The JUJU hunts by night for the virgin to be
sacrificed--Gree-gree bush--The sacrifice--African priest and kingcraft
265
CHAP. XLI.--My voyage home in the ESTRELLA--A REVOLT OF
THE SLAVES during a squall, and how we were obliged to suppress
it--Use of pistols and hot water 272
CHAP. XLII.--Smallpox and a necessary murder--Bad luck every
where--A chase and a narrow escape 276
CHAP. XLIII.--The AGUILA DE ORO, a Chesapeake clipper--my
race with the Montesquieu--I enter the river Salum to trade for slaves--I
am threatened, then arrested, and my clipper seized by French
man-of-war's men--Inexplicable mystery--We are imprisoned at
GOREE--Transferred to San Louis on the Senegal--The Frenchmen
appropriate my schooner without condemnation--How they used her
The sisters of charity in our prison--The trial scene in court, and our
sentence--Friends attempt to facilitate my escape, but our plans
detected--I am transferred to a guard-ship in the stream--New projects
for my escape--A jolly party and the nick of time, but the captain spoils
the sport 280
CHAP. XLIV.--I am sent to France in the frigate FLORA--Sisters of
charity--The prison of Brest--My prison companions--Prison
mysteries--CORPORAL BLON--I apply to the Spanish
minister--Transfer to the civil prison 286
CHAP. XLV.--MADAME SORRET and my new quarters--Mode of
life--A lot of Catalan girls--Prison boarding and lodging--Misery of the
convicts in the coast prisons--Improvement of the central prisons 292

CHAP. XLVI.--New lodgers in our quarters--How we pass our time in
pleasant diversions by aid of the Catalan girls and my
cash--Soirées--My funds give out--Madame Sorret makes a
suggestion--I turn schoolmaster, get pupils, teach English and
penmanship, and support my whole party 295
CHAP. XLVII.--MONSIEUR GERMAINE, the forger--His
trick--Cause of Germaine's arrest--An adroit and rapid forgery--Its
detection 300
CHAP. XLVIII.--Plan of escape--Germaine's project against
Babette--A new scheme for New Year's night--Passports--PIETRO
NAZZOLINI and DOMINICO ANTONETTI--Preparations for our
"French leave"--How the attempt eventuated 304
CHAP. XLIX.--Condition of the sentinel when he was found--His
story--Prison researches next day--How we avoid detection--Louis
Philippe receives my petition favorably--Germaine's philosophic
pilfering and principles--His plan to rob the SANTISSIMA CASA OF
LORETTO--He designs making an attempt on the Emperor Nicholas--I
am released and banished from France 310
CHAP. L.--I go to Portugal, and return in disguise to Marseilles, in
order to embark for Africa--I resolve to continue a slaver--A Marseilles
hotel during the cholera--DOCTOR DU JEAN and MADAME
DUPREZ--Humors of the table d'hôte--Coquetry and flirtation--A
phrenological denouement 316
CHAP. LI.--I reach Goree, and hasten to Sierra Leone, where I become
a coast-pilot to GALLINAS--Site of that celebrated factory--Don
PEDRO BLANCO--His monopoly of the Vey country--Slave-trade and
its territorial extent prior to the AMERICAN SCHEME OF
COLONIZATION--Blanco's arrangements, telegraphs, &c. at
Gallinas--Appearance and mode of life--Blanco and the Lords' prayer
in Latin 324
CHAP. LII.--Anecdotes of Blanco--Growth of slave-trade in the VEY
country--Local wars--AMARAR and SHIAKAR--Barbarities of the

natives 330
CHAP. LIII.--I visit LIBERIA, and observe a new phase of negro
development--I go to NEW SESTROS, and establish trade--Trouble
with Prince FREEMAN--The value of gunpowder physic 335
CHAP. LIV.--My establishment at New Sestros, and how I created the
slave-trade in that region--The ordeal of SAUCY-WOOD--My mode of
attacking a superstitious usage, and of saving the victims--The story of
BARRAH and his execution 339
CHAP. LV.--No river at New Sestros--Beach--Kroomen and
Fishmen--Bushmen--Kroo boats--I engage a fleet of them for my
factory--I ship a cargo of slaves in a hurry--My mode of
operating--Value of rum and mock coral beads--Return of the cruiser
344
CHAP. LVI.--I go on a pleasure voyage in the Brilliant, accompanied
by GOVERNOR FINDLEY--Murder of the Governor--I fit out an
expedition to revenge his death--A fight with the beach negroes--We
burn five towns--A disastrous retreat--I am wounded--Vindication of
Findley's memory 349
CHAP. LVII.--What Don Pedro Blanco thought of my
Quixotism--Painful effects of my wound--Blanco's liberality to
Findley's family--My slave nurseries on the coast--Digby--I pack
nineteen negroes on my launch, and set sail for home--Disastrous
voyage--Stories--I land my cargo at night at MONROVIA, and carry it
through the colony!--Some new views of commercial Morality! 356
CHAP. LVIII.--My compliments to British cruisers--The BONITO--I
offer an inspection of my barracoons, &c., to her officers--A lieutenant
and the surgeon are sent ashore--My reception of them, and the review
of