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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--Soir��es--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'h?te--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 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