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my slaves, feeding, sleeping, &c.--Our night frolic--Next
morning--A surprise--The Bonito off, and her officers ashore!--Almost
a quarrel--How I pacified my guests over a good breakfast--Sauce for
the goose is sauce for the gander 362

CHAP. LIX.--Ups and downs--I am captured in a Russian vessel, and
sent to Sierra Leone--It is resolved that I am to be despatched to
England--I determine to take French leave--Preparation to celebrate a
birthday--A feast--A martinet--CORPORAL BLUNT--Pleasant effects
of cider--A swim for life and liberty at night--My concealment--I
manage to equip myself, and depart in a Portuguese vessel--I ship
thirty-one slaves at Digby--A narrow escape from a cruiser--My return
to New Sestros--Report of my death--How I restored confidence in my
actual existence--Don Pedro's notion of me--The gift of a donkey, and
its disastrous effect on the married ladies of New Sestros 369
CHAP. LX.--The confession of a dying sailor--SANCHEZ--The story
of the murder of Don Miguel, and destruction of his factory by
THOMPSON--A piratical revenge--An auto-da-fé at sea 377
CHAP. LXI.--My establishment at Digby--The rival kinsmen, and their
quarrel--JEN-KEN, THE BUSHMAN--My arrival at Digby,
carousal--A night attack by the rival and his allies--A rout--Horrid
scenes of massacre, barbarity, and cannibalism--My position and
ransom 382
CHAP. LXII.--I escape from the bloody scene in a boot with a
Krooman--Storm on the coast--My perilous attempt to land at
Gallinas--How I am warned off--An African tornado--The sufferings of
my companion and myself while exposed in the boat, and our final
rescue 387
CHAP. LXIII.--Don Pedro Blanco leaves Gallinas--I visit Cape Mount,
to restore his son to the Chief--His reception--I go to England in the
GIL BLAS; she is run down by steamer in the Channel--Rescued, and
reach Dover--I see London and the British Islands--The diversions,
sufferings, and opinions of my servant LUNES in Great Britain--He
leaves voluntarily for Africa--A queer chat and scene with the
ladies--His opinion of negro dress and negro bliss 391
CHAP. LXIV.--I make arrangements for future trade and business with
MR. REDMAN--I go to Havana, resolved to obtain a release from
Blanco, and engage in lawful commerce--Don Pedro refuses, and sends

me back with a freight--A voyage with two African females revisiting
their native country--Their story in Cuba; results of frugality and
industry--Shiakar's daughter--Her reception at home--Her disgust with
her savage home in Africa, and return to Cuba 396
CHAP. LXV.--I find my establishment in danger, from the colonists
and others--A correspondence with LIEUT. BELL, U. S. N.--Harmless
termination of GOVERNOR BUCHANAN's onslaught--Threatened
with famine; my relief--The VOLADOR takes 749 slaves;--THE LAST
CARGO I EVER SHIPPED 399
CHAP. LXVI.--I am attacked by the British cruiser TERMAGANT,
Lieut. SEAGRAM--Correspondence and diplomacy--I go on board the
cruiser in a damp uniform--My reception and jollification--I CONFESS
MY INTENTION TO ABANDON THE SLAVE-TRADE--My
compact with Seagram--How we manage Prince Freeman--His treaty
with the Lieutenant for the suppression of the trade--The negro's
duplicity outwits himself--The British officer guaranties the safe
removal of my property, whereupon I release 100 slaves--Captain
DENMAN'S DESTRUCTION OF GALLINAS--Freeman begins to see
my diplomacy, and regrets his inability to plunder my property, as the
natives had done at Gallinas--His plot to effect this--How I counteract it
405
CHAP. LXVII.--My barracoons destroyed--Adieus to New Sestros--I
sail with Seagram, in the Termagant, for Cape Mount--A slaver in
sight--All the nautical men depart to attack her in boats during a
calm--I am left in charge of Her Britannic Majesty's cruiser--The
fruitless issue--Escape of the Serea 411
CHAP. LXVIII.--We land at Cape Mount, and obtain a cession of
territory, by deed, from KING FANA-TORO and PRINCE GRAY--I
explore the region--Site of old English slave factory--Difficulty of
making the negroes comprehend my improvements at New
Florence--Negro speculations and philosophy in regard to labor. 414
CHAP. LXIX.--Visit to Monrovia--Description of the colony and its
products--Speculations on the future of the republic, and the character

of colored colonization 419
CHAP. LXX.--I remove, and settle permanently at New Florence--I
open communications with cruisers to supply them with provisions,
&c.--Anecdote of SOMA, the gambler--His sale and danger in the
hands of a Bushman--Mode of gambling one's self away in Africa--A
letter from Governor Macdonald destroys my prospect of British
protection--I haul down the British flag--I determine to devote myself
to husbandry--Bad prospect 424
CHAP. LXXI.--Account of the character of the VEY negroes--The
GREE-GREE bush--Description of this institution, its rites, services,
and uses--Marriage and midwifery--A scene with Fana-Toro, at
Toso--Human sacrifice of his enemy; frying a heart; indignity
committed on the body--Anecdote of the king's endurance; burns his
finger as a test, and rallies his men--Death of Prince Gray--Funeral rites
among the Vey people--Smoking the corpse--I am offered the choice of
his widows 429
CHAP. LXXII.--My workshops, gardens, and plantations at the Cape
Mount settlement--I do not prosper as a farmer or trader with the
interior--I decide to send a coaster to aid in the transfer of the Yankee
clipper